Debugging

Debugging

Program or Be Programmed | Edutopia

Program or Be Programmed | Edutopia

Programming Is the New Literacy | Edutopia

Programming Is the New Literacy | Edutopia

Doing a 15 Minute Presentation in 10 Easy Steps | The Other Librarian

Doing a 15 Minute Presentation in 10 Easy Steps | The Other Librarian

I'm relying on this to put my presentation together for Vegas.

PyDev Eclipse Python interpreters Error: stdlib not found - Stack Overflow

PyDev Eclipse Python interpreters Error: stdlib not found - Stack Overflow

Just working through some errors as I try to get Eclipse up and running.

Installing the Pydev plugin

I used this video to figure out how to install the Pydev plugin within the Eclipse IDE, so I can learn some Python.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACrmcGjqrJw

How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project: Teachers of low income students, however, are much less likely than teachers of the highest income students to use tablet computers (37% v. 56%) or e-readers (41% v. 55%) in their classrooms and assignments

When disciplines collide, and new forms of learning are created

This class that combines history and hacking Arduino--what a great idea. “To write their group papers, the students used a platform hosted by the Swedish Pirate Party, called piratepad,” said Famiglietti. “It’s the same site used by Anonymous and other hacker organizations to write some of their collaborative documents. I thought that was a nice touch.”

The devil finds work for IDLE...oh never mind.

I'm currently looking for an alternative to IDLE. It crashes when I go to change the font sizes. Fixing the problem involves switching to an older version of ActivestateTCL and bit of mucking about that I don't want to hassle with. http://bugs.python.org/issue15853 The author of the book I'm using also hates IDLE: http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2011/11/29/the-things-i-hate-about-idle-that-i-wish-someone-would-fix/ I googled "best free python ide os x" and came across this helpful thread, which recommends Eclipse with the Pydev plugin: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=127552

Learning Python

I'm supposed to have been learning Python since December, but just started yesterday. I thought I'd put my notes here since I'm not writing much else. It took two hours for me to figure that I have to type "Python3" to invoke the latest version of Python that I installed under OS X. Although I asked for help online, the solution was in the docs. My goal is to see how much Python I can learn in two months. Why? a number of reasons. 1. I'm trying to make myself learn to code. 2. I'd like to do something with gamification and my writing courses. Not sure exactly what. Initially I'd like to make something that let's my students rank and respond to snippets of writing. 3. I'd also like to have a tool that aggregates snippets of writing in some manner. I'm using "Inventing Games with Python" because it has gotten good reviews, is free, is project based and looks fun. The writing is clear and enjoyable.

Remixing movies

I want to live in a world where anyone can remix and recombine any art they want, if they're not making money from it. I want to start a Kickstarter for a version of VLC that lets you insert control scripts that let you move through a movie in a predetermined fashion, so you could create a phantom menace edit, for example that left out Jar Jar Binks, or a version of the The Dark Knight Rises that would allow one to decrease or increase the scenes with a particular character. Imagine good movies that were damaged by the inclusion of brief scenes that didn't work. Just download the remix script for that show. They could be stored on a website and the most popular scripts would appear in the "greatest hits" section. The second Lord of the Rings movie, with about 20 minutes less of Sam staring with concern at Frodo. Mormons taking two F-bombs out of a PG-13 movie so they could show it to their kid would just be a byproduct. Incidentally, the Cleanflix version of The Wedding Crashers is a very different movie than the original, almost absurdist. Also, Back to the Future would not have been damaged had the swears been removed. I'd like there to be some sort of universal tag that torrenters use to designate TV edits. I'd buy originals if they contained tv edits.