[Tutor] Volunteer teacher

[Mayo Adams]

It happens quite often, and that is not in itself a reason to let it pass.

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 2:00 PM <avi.e.gross at gmail.com> wrote:

> dAVId,
>
> That happens quite often when a topic comes up and people react to it.
>
> You are correct that the original request was about resources for teaching
> a
> subset of python.
>
> It is then quite reasonable to ask what exactly the purpose was as the
> right
> materials need to be chosen based on the level of the students before they
> enter, and various other goals.
>
> My view is that it is harder to appreciate the advantages or uses of
> object-oriented styles without at least some idea of the alternatives and
> showing why it is better.
>
> I go back to a time it was common to work with multiple variables such as
> one array to hold lots of names and another for birthdays and another for
> salaries and how it became advantageous to collect them in a new structure
> called a "structure" so they could be moved around as a unit and not
> accidentally get messed up if you deleted from one array but not another,
> for example.
>
> Later "classes" were build atop such structures by adding additional layers
> such as limiting access to the internals while adding member functions that
> were specific to the needs and so on.
>
> But I will stop my digression here. I have no specific materials to offer.
>
> AVI
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tutor <tutor-bounces+avi.e.gross=gmail.com at python.org> On Behalf Of
> David
> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2022 9:02 AM
> To: Python Tutor <tutor at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Volunteer teacher
>
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2022 at 09:25, trent shipley <trent.shipley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've volunteered to do some informal Python teaching.
> >
> > What are some useful online resources and tutorials?
>
> The topic of discussion seems to be drifting away from the question asked.
>
> This is the Tutor list. As I understand it, the point of this list is to
> respond to questions.
>
> Out of consideration for the OP, I am repeating the question that they
> asked, in the hope that it might focus replies towards addressing the OP
> questions.
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Mayo Adams