[omaha] February meeting 2014

[Wes Turner]

@Jeff, @Burch,

On Feb 24, 2014 12:49 AM, "Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T" <jeffh at dundeemt.com> wrote:
>
> Wes,
> Thanks for reminding me about ipython notebooks.  Even just 1.2 is simply
> amazing.  I've used ipython and like it, but notebook is quite amazing for
> it's role in exploration, learning and documenting.  That along with Burch
> and tech mentoring got me thinking about what could be done with ipython
> notebook and teaching kids.  ipythonblocks is cool
> http://ipythonblocks.org/ and it got me looking for Turtle.
> There is
> no turtle module for ipython
> notebook that I could find because of it's TKinter roots, however I had an
> idea about using html5/canvas, javascript and animations.   I've got a
> proof of concept notebook doing canvas animations of python object
> _repr_html_  so it looks like it is doable in 1.x.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics

http://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html looks a bit different
than http://docs.python.org/2/library/turtle.html

That sounds really cool. I searched for a minute and found a few
implementations but nothing with the complete stdlib Turtle API.

... I learned BASIC in like second grade; so when we had a LOGO/Turtle
lab in 6th grade I was none too impressed.

https://github.com/jakevdp/mpld3 (Matplotlib + D3js) would be really
practical to learn. Similarly procedural, visual, Python, Javascript,
math, charting.

http://scipy-lectures.github.io/intro/matplotlib/matplotlib.html

One project we had in elementary school: you have a million dollars.
How do you spend it? ... Pie charts, budgeting.

The Khan Academy programming tutorials for ProcessingJS are pretty fun...

https://github.com/westurner/USA/blob/gh-pages/index.html

"Draw me a balanced budget"

>
> A couple of years ago, I wrote subclass of turtle that allowed my kids to
> design stuff in turtle, then change virtual in to physical by controlling a
> robot with the same code. http://www.betterbots.com/  (scribbler2 + fluke +
> bluetooth)
>
> Anyway, I think it would be cool to control robots from a notebook <g>  who
> knows how far I'll get.  I see lots of requests for turtle for notebook but
> no code so far.
>

Killer Robot!!

http://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/risks/safety/killer_robot/killer_news5.html

http://docs.python.org/2/library/robotparser.html

http://www.reddit.com/r/IPython/comments/1dl8wc/seeking_advice_for_introducing_ipython_in_high/c9rws29

http://code.org/learn (#HourOfCode)

>
> Best,
> Jeff
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2/19/14, Steve Young <wereapwhatwesow at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > BUT to help make it happen - does anyone have topics to share (Wes?) or
> > > want to talk about?
> >
> > Unfortunately I can't commit to a talk at this time; though recently I
> > built a static page with tinkerer (ReStructuredText + Sphinx), hosted
> > with GitHub Pages that was a really delightful.
> >
> >
> >
> > I contributed a few patches to the default Sphinx, Tinkerer, and
> > ReadTheDocs templates to add ARIA roles that should be making there
> > way out into the wild soon.
> >
> > * https://github.com/vladris/tinkerer/pull/43
> > * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAI-ARIA
> > * http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles
> >
> > The SlidesJS converter for IPython notebook is pretty cool too:
> >
> > * http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/nbconvert.html
> > * ``ipython nbconvert --to=slides ./notebook_name.ipnyb``
> >
> > The new widget features in IPython [Notebook] 2.0 are looking really
> > awesome.
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>
> Jeff Hinrichs
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