[Pdxpw-staff] install instructions for Sublime Text 2

[Emily Strickland]

I'd love to hear others' thoughts. 


On Friday, 13 July 2012 at 19:08 , Kevin Turner wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012, at 09:50 AM, Emily Strickland wrote:
> > Personally I'd rather they see the errors from Python itself at the command line.  [...] In my mind, the only reason we're not using, say, Notepad, is that we want a very consistent cross-platform experience.
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> Ah, okay, there's the crux of it.  You want to start with the basics, whereas I think we can start with tools that improve on the basics.
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> I don't know which works better; it's quite possible I am biased by the lure of shiny gizmos.  This is where I'd love to see case studies (we're certainly not the first people to teach programming) or have the input of our educational advisor Scott .
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> > What's our goal here? To introduce novices to programming? Or introduce techies to Python (as a culture, a way of programming, a way of approaching problems, etc)? I find both goals compelling, but we only have time and resources for one.
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> Important question, for sure.  I think, in the context of a program run by the Portland Python User Group, where we follow up the class by saying "come to meetup.com/pdxpython (http://meetup.com/pdxpython) project night!" and say "the great thing about Python is the community," we have to keep the culture and community in mind.
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> And while I do agree with part of your question here (yes, it's possible to use Python as a demonstration language to teach something about programming without getting into Python-the-community), I more skeptical of the novices/techies distinction you appear to be drawing.  That is, I agree there are different audiences with different levels of technical background, but I think you can work with either goal for each audience.
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