After hosting the interactive edition of How to Think like a Computer Scientist on the Google app engine at thinkcspy.appspot.com for over a year, we finally made the switchover to a new domain. As of today all requests to thinkcspy will be automatically redirected to http://interactivepython.org …
more ...What a week its been! So much has happened in the last week that I just have to take some time out to organize my thoughts and get some of this information out there where others can read it.
Runestone Interactive is primarily a home for …
more ...I consider myself pretty up to speed on web development.
I’ve spent the last two days trying to find a hosting solution for the data structures eBook…. I looked at too many of the following:
Now that I'm back from traveling in South America I've started on a project to add a turtle graphics module to skulpt. Skulpt is a javascript implementation of Python written by Scott Graham, and is available on skulpt.googlecode.com. Its a very nice project because it allows you to …
more ...I've recently been looking for ways to run Python in a browser. There are lots of reasons why I think this is a cool idea. For example, creating some simple tutorials, Making some online quizzes and tests, getting Python to run on my iPad...
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Now that I'm back from my JTerm travels, I'm happy to let you know that the second edition of Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python is available. (www.fbeedle.com) David and I have worked hard on this new edition for about a year now, and we …
more ...So I'm working on an app during my sabbatical that has an iPad component and an online Google App Engine component. The Google App Engine part is half web based and half web service based. Of course this means that the local client part has to be able to authenticate …
more ...Here's a little script that combines two of my favorite pass times. Python programming and cycling. bonktown.com is a great site that has steep discounts on road cycling gear. They only sell one item at a time and they typically sell that item until it is gone. I've gotten …
more ...I've seen several interesting blog posts related to MIT switching from Scheme to Python for their intro course. This is really interesting to me since SICP is one of my favorite CS books of all time. Nevertheless I'm glad to see leading institutions change to my favorite language.
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The other day I discovered that the folks working on VPython have been very busy over the last couple of years. I had given up on VPython because the Mac distribution was so difficult to use. It required the X windows server and one point and lots of other extra …
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