Greetings Pythoneers: Per usual, I've been walking this talk in Portland "Open Source Capital" Oregon revolving around Python as a math learning language, viewing math as an extensible type system (like Python) with such well-known inhabitants as Vector, Polynomial, Polyhedron and so on.
Whereas I've been adjunct faculty by day, piggy backing on Portland State's bookkeeping, our Saturday Academy is in the midst of transitioning to an independent 501(c)(3), which will be better for fundraising (donors will know exactly where their money is going). Saturday Academy was established by Silicon Forest executives such as myself, but 23 years ago (i.e. before my time -- I'm aged forty nine or forty ten or like that), so I'm like this next-gen with a lot of new ideas inherited from the open source movement (a big part of Portland's economy these days). My first gig with this Academy was West Precinct, Hillsboro, a police station serving a large migrant population of Anglo, Euro and Latino Americans. That was a Linux heavy experience, thanks to my co-teacher Jerritt Collord, then of linuxfund.org and since moved on I know not where. Anyway, if you're a CS prof looking for cues, tips and/or tricks, you might be interested in my writeups, which occur in my blog and scattered in the various Python in Education groups, most notably edu-sig and edupython here on Google. Here're some blog links to get ya started. Feel free to send further inquiries by email: http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2006/11/more-pythonic-mathematics.html http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2006/10/whiteboard-doodles.html (includes digicam shots of my whiteboard doodles). Other background: Kirby was Guido's side kick at this year's Shuttleworth Summit in London, starring Alan Kay, Helen King, other luminaries, aimed at kicking off Project Kusasa, a way of teaching analytical engineering type skills through TuxLabs and so forth in the Republic of South Africa. Kirby was also a volunteer xBase programmer for the Royal Kingdom of Bhutan, Office of the National Budget and Royal Insurance Company of Bhutan (RICB). Kirby Urner Ministry of Education Python Nation [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
