[Pythonedu-wg] Pythonedu-wg Digest, Vol 3, Issue 10

[Ian Harcombe]

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dave Ames <david.john.ames at gmail.com>
> To: "Nicholas H.Tollervey" <ntoll at ntoll.org>, pythonedu-wg at python.org
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 23:48:06 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Pythonedu-wg] A new, kid-friendly Python editor
>
>
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:50 Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org> wrote:
>
> On 22/09/15 17:46, Dave Ames wrote:
> > I would suspect that (rightly or wrongly) most school network
> > technicians would be extremely wary of giving students access to a
> > system shell of any kind.
> >
>
> Then most school network technicians are fools and should not have ANY
> input in such decisions.
>
> NOTE: I'm highly biased about this. ;-)
>
> N.
>
> Absolutely no disagreement from me there. If they've configured everything
> correctly then access to the command line for students, should present
> absolutely no threat to the network. But!
>
> The default state is "no command line", even though access to Python/Idle
> probably gives them at least the same level (if not more) of danger.
>
> Dave
>

While that's all fine and dandy, students can be very creative (they
should, if we've taught them well) and some hacks are fairly easy to
research and attempt in a school environment; but the results can be
disastrous and inconvenience more than just a few people.

Mind you, having said that, once you have Python installed it is an
absolute no-brainer to quickly Google how to run a system command from the
interactive shell (as I did last week, to try and help our tech support get
PyGame Zero installed) and then the presence or absence of the Windows
Command Shell is a non-issue...

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Ian Harcombe
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