[Tutor] Recommended Resurce or strategy for beginning students

2019-01-22 Thread Matthew Polack
Hi All, In our growing school we're teaching Python programming for the first time as an elective subject with Year 9 and 10 students. (Had a dabble at this last year with 3 students in Year 11) I'm wondering what specific resource or stategy people would recommend for absolute beginners? ie. a

[Tutor] exporting lists into CSV issue.

2019-01-22 Thread mhysnm1964
All, Thanks in advance for any assistance. This is a follow up msg from my iTunes import issue with the xml. I have managed to successfully import the data from the XML with Peter's and Alan's help. I have moved the information into a list and only extracting the data I want. Now I am trying to

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Resurce or strategy for beginning students

2019-01-22 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 22/01/2019 06:57, Matthew Polack wrote: > In our growing school we're teaching Python programming for the first time > as an elective subject with Year 9 and 10 students. (Had a dabble at this > last year with 3 students in Year 11) > > I'm wondering what specific resource or stategy people wo

Re: [Tutor] exporting lists into CSV issue.

2019-01-22 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 22/01/2019 09:25, mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: > being exported to the CSV. But when I bring it into Excel. I am getting a > blank row between each row. The exported data looks like this: I can't see anything obvious. > import plistlib, pprint, csv > > with open("library.xml", "rb") as f: >

Re: [Tutor] exporting lists into CSV issue.

2019-01-22 Thread Peter Otten
mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: > Now I am > trying to export to a CSV file. There is no syntax or logical errors I can > see. The information is being exported to the CSV. But when I bring it > into Excel. I am getting a blank row between each row. > with open ('books-list.csv', 'w') as wf: Try swi

Re: [Tutor] exporting lists into CSV issue.

2019-01-22 Thread mhysnm1964
All, I have addressed the issue. When I open the file, I am using newline='' as one of the parameters. with open ('books-list.csv', 'w', newline='', encode='utf-8') as wf: I added the UTF-8 as I discovered after sending my original email I was not importing all the books. I discovered

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Resurce or strategy for beginning students

2019-01-22 Thread Mike Barnett
I like the idea of starting out right away on a GUI. I know this is completely backwards to what would normally be taught, but hear me out. Kids today are used to GUI interfaces. They're on their phones, their computers, their TV sets. Why not teach kids to output to a window instead of a

[Tutor] Recommended Resurce or strategy for beginning students, (Matthew Polack)

2019-01-22 Thread Scott Larsen
3. Recommended Resurce or strategy for beginning students (Matthew Polack) Matt,     I don't have any specific recommendations other than to make sure you were aware of a podcast I recently stumbled across called Teaching Python by Sean Tibor and Kelly Paredes.  I've only listened