[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 165, Issue 3

[Peter Farrell]

I'm enjoying the video, though it seems like a strange progression from
super-simple Scratch to super-complicated C to relatively simple Python.

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>    1. CS50 lecture (Harvard)... good job! (kirby urner)
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> https://youtu.be/5aP9Bl9hcqI
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> I think this lecture by David J. Malan of Harvard, introducing Python in
> Week 8, having slogged through C already, is top notch.
>
> He's using Python 3 and really covering a ton of material, with lots of
> references back to the C lectures. This is the only lecture of the series
> I've seen at this point.
>
> He somewhat reveals has Perl background (a lineage he confesses to) in
> treating a module so much like a class, to where he starts calling
> functions methods just because their imported and belong to some module.
> In Perl, entire modules got blessed as classes as I recall.
>
> On the topic of 'if __name__ == "__main__"', he's quite good on that but
> seems to tie it to calling a function called main() every time.  I prefer
> to explain that module may in principal be the one running top-level, with
> everything else imported.  When imported, a module is never "__main__" by
> default, so here's a way to provide a "just in case" section, containing
> whatever.
>
> He's good on Python being a both a language and a machine to combines
> compiling and running into a single step, with bytecode the intermediate
> runtime language. He didn't stop to talk about the different versions of
> Python in the sense of CPython, Jython, Iron Python and PyPy. I thought he
> would. Maybe in Week 9.
>
> Within one two hour episode he's taken us all the way from simple
> assignment and string formatting, to writing a simple Flask application
> complete with Jinja2.  As someone who has lectured on Python quite a bit, I
> have to admire the guy's stamina and sustained coherence.
>
> Kirby
>
> PS:  along those lines, I've been pumping out a bunch of Youtubes recently,
> two of which feature repl.it using Python.  My scripts are somewhat
> trivial
> this time, whereas in past Youtubes I've been showing off fancy VPython:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeBIlkJm4xglicSifacG4eewD9CQaWvU0
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> It'll suggest you log in / create account but you don't have to.  Cool
> service though, you might wanna:
>
> S Factor  -- introduces REPL.IT
> https://repl.it/Glmi/6
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> RD to RT -- extended precision Decimal
> https://repl.it/Gqyp/0
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> Fancier Python at work:
> More About Hypertoons (VPython)
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> (all of these a part of the above Youtube playlist: Synergetics 101)
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