[Edu-sig] Python for Fun

[Chris Meyers]

Hi Allen,

I think I need to learn at lot more about Zope. Most of what we're 
doing here involves a marriage between database tables and Python 
dictionaries turned into objects. We made a small extension to the 
Sybase module to retrieve data from SQL queries, mold them into 
dictionarys, and attach as attributes to created objects. It was 
technology that was effective even 5 years ago.

I don't have much to offer for teaching yet. But I'll try to keep 
track this summer. Syllabus, what works, what dont. I assume you've 
seen Jeff Elkners book at www.ibiblio.org/obp and projects his high 
school class is doing.

Chris

05/25/2001 12:12:24 PM, "Schmidt, Allen J." <aschmidt@nv.cc.va.us> 
wrote:

>Hi Chris!
>
>I too work for a newspaper - The Free Lance-Star - in 
Fredericksburg,
>Virginia (www.fredericksburg.com). We are using Zope mixed with 
Python, XML
>and SQL to handle the automated production of our paper online. 
Working out
>very well and having a great time with Zope! Made our jobs a lot 
easier.
>
>Would love to hear of anything you can offer for teaching Python. 
We are
>Zopeheads here and some are more versed in Python than 
others...only using
>it for things we need to for interactiion in Zope.
>
>Trying to get a curriculum for teaching younger students (8-14) 
for our home
>schooling computer classes.
>
>Allen Schmidt
>aschmidt@fredericksburg.com
>