DN580836413

comp.lang.python

 At the last Python Conference, nearly 40 people joined an after hours
 discussion group on the use of Python in education.  We learned a lot
 -- for example, that there are many different ways to teach
 programming, and that different age groups require different
 approaches.

 One of the results of that meeting was the decision to create a
 Special Interest Group (SIG) on the use of Python in education.  I
 have created the SIG home page and a mailing list, and I invite you to
 join the SIG.  I plan to post a summary of the meeting to the mailing
 list, after some time waiting for people to join (you can always dig
 missed posts out of the archives).  Here are the URLs:

 http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig        (mailing list)

 http://www.python.org/sigs/edu-sig/            (SIG home page)

 Please forward this message to other relevant lists or individuals who
 might be interested.  (I've already invited everyone who was at the
 meeting or who has sent me email about CP4E over the past year.)

 I don't have a fixed idea about what the charter of the SIG should be;
 I'd like to see discussion of CP4E, but also of other issues related
 to Python and education, and I'd like to include all levels of
 education (from grade school to college level as well as adult
 education), as long as people are interested in learning or teaching
 Python.

 --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)