<div dir="ltr"><div>That's what I like about it! I'm not sure a GUI approach to language learning is always the right way in at this level; although I like the Scratch approach to problem solving eventually the students have to dive into syntax. I'm very fond of Python, just not very expert at it - there's always something else to do at work!<br><br></div>Laurie<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Laurie Savage<br><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 August 2015 at 09:13, Guy Flaherty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Guy.Flaherty@xavier.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">Guy.Flaherty@xavier.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">There are a bunch of Python Web Frameworks Laurie. Probably the biggest of them is Django (<a href="http://djangoproject.com/" target="_blank">http://djangoproject.com/</a>).
I am not teaching SD again this year but if I were I would look at using something like this and JQueryMobile (<a href="http://jquerymobile.com/" target="_blank">http://jquerymobile.com/</a>) and get the students building mobile apps for their phones.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Python is not really a GUI focussed language. You can do it, but other languages are probably going to be easier to teach and use.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Python. Been using it for 15 years now, but not for GUI programming.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Good luck,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Laurie Savage<span class=""><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 5 August 2015 8:43 AM<br>
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</span><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 SofDev] python UI<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I haven't cracked using Python as a web tool yet so I'm interested in how people go about this. Is there anything like Ruby on Rails? (maybe Python on a Swing?)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 4 August 2015 at 22:41, Andrew Pate <<a href="mailto:arp@mentonegrammar.net" target="_blank">arp@mentonegrammar.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all<br>
Just wondering through what mechanism those of you using python as your language are having students build UI? Is it web or otherwise platform independent?<br>
I have been using PHP for a few years now, and probably will continue, but I have a number of students in 9-11 taking the Grok NCSS challenge and thought about looking into python as my language. Also, the Algorithmics course mandates python, and I would like
to offer that, although I know that UI is not so important there.<br>
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Andrew Pate<br>
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