[Year 12 SofDev] python UI

[Laurie Savage]

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!

Laurie

Laurie Savage
https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home

On 5 August 2015 at 09:13, Guy Flaherty <Guy.Flaherty at xavier.vic.edu.au>
wrote:

> There are a bunch of Python Web Frameworks Laurie. Probably the biggest of
> them is Django (http://djangoproject.com/). I am not teaching SD again
> this year but if I were I would look at using something like this and
> JQueryMobile (http://jquerymobile.com/) and get the students building
> mobile apps for their phones.
>
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>
> 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.
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>
>
> Good luck,
>
>
>
> Guy Flaherty
>
> Xavier College
>
>
>
> *From:* sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Laurie Savage
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 5 August 2015 8:43 AM
> *To:* Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <
> sofdev at edulists.com.au>
> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 SofDev] python UI
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> 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?)
>
> Laurie
>
>
> Laurie Savage
> https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home
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>
>
> On 4 August 2015 at 22:41, Andrew Pate <arp at mentonegrammar.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all
> 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?
> 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.
>
> Thanks
> Andrew.
>
> Andrew Pate
> Mentone Grammar
>
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