[Yr11 Information Technology] Python: Text, IDE, and version control

[Kevork Krozian]

Hi Victor,

 There are a large number of resources that have come through on the use of Python. You can find these at www.edulists.com.au<http://www.edulists.com.au> under Software Development. http://www.edulists.com.au/sofdev/python/python_resources.htm
Also Dr Steven Bird from Melbourne Uni has published a Python book. Details are:
Thanks for this opportunity to plug my new book...

Note that there's a couple of examples of this in the "machine
translation" section of chapter 1 of Natural Language Processing with
Python: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516499/

The supplied software that takes a sentence and repeatedly translates
it back and forth between the source and target languages.  The book
and software are available for free from http://www.nltk.org/

This material is part of a new second year "breadth" subject at
Melbourne University, called Language and Computation:
https://app.portal.unimelb.edu.au/CSCApplication/view/2009/800-204

-Steven Bird
http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb/


 Guy Flaherty has also posted quite a long list of Python resources through this archived post :
http://www.edulists.com.au/pipermail/sofdev/2010-August/002028.html

Perhaps you can see what other responses there are via the Software Development communities as there are a few python users out there.



Kind Regards


Kevork Krozian
Digital Learning Manager
Forest Hill College
www.fhc.vic.edu.au
tel: 0419 356 034

From: yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 10:50 AM
To: Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] Python: Text, IDE, and version control

This can help get you started, I will see if I can send you more.
     http://www.diigo.com/user/rgesthuizen/python

We had an amazing time in class this year, examining and modifying the python code from ANUGA, a hydrodynamic package developed by Geoscience Australia for 3D tsunami modelling on coastal villages etc. Enjoy :-)

Regards Roland
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Victor Rajewski <victor.rajewski at jmss.vic.edu.au<mailto:victor.rajewski at jmss.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
Hi Folks,

We're planning on using python extensively through our VCE IT curriculum; I'm trying to get some pointers from people who have taught it (or other languages) in high school before. In particular, positive or negative feedback about any textbooks - we have a few (paid and free) in mind, but would like to hear any experiences.

I want to use a decent IDE - does anyone have any recommendations? At the moment PyCharm is looking nice.

Has anyone tried using a version control system (e.g. cvs, subversion, mercurial) with students of this age? I never even got taught that at uni, but it strikes me as a very useful tool to have some early introduction to - many students our year 10 class this year 'lost' lots of interesting work by saving 'over the top' of previous edits, without any versioning. Or would learning a system like this, at this stage, be too much overhead and overload? Integration of a VCS into the IDE would be a necessity to make making revisions easy.

Cheers,

Victor Rajewski
IT Manager
John Monash Science School
+61 3 9902 9828

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