I am still putting together the weekly D520 notes. However, the last couple of weeks have been a bit busy and so they’re waiting to be cleaned up and have links added. The intra-semester break starts next week so I’ll catch up then.
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7 Sep
D520 – Week Six
Chapter 6 of IronPython in Action covers “properties, dialogs, and Visual Studio”. This seemed an obvious place to insert the material on user-interface design that is normally covered in the course, and to look a bit more deeply than the textbook does at Visual Studio itself (and the Windows Forms controls and their properties). I [...]
30 Aug
Mailbox flattening messages
The mailbox.py code does this to dump a message (e.g. when adding to a Maildir file):
def _dump_message(self, message, target, mangle_from_=False):
# Most files are opened in binary mode to allow predictable seeking.
# To get native line endings on disk, the user-friendly \n line endings
# [...]
24 Aug
D520 – Week Five
Chapter 5 of IronPython in Action deals with XML, although it starts out covering some of the more advanced things you can do with functions. I considered skipping this chapter (the function material is perhaps a bit advanced, and covering XML isn’t a necessity), but decided that it was worth learning about XML in .NET [...]
15 Aug
D520 – Week Four
This week continued from the previous one, covering Chapter 4 of IronPython in Action. That meant no new notes, and no new lab exercise. We basically did two things: worked through the MultiDoc example in Chapter 4, and worked on implementing the Airline lab designed in the previous week.
The first recommended reading for the week [...]
9 Aug
D520 – Week Three
When planning the semester’s schedule for D520, I choose a few topics that seemed large and gave them a two-week time-slot. One of these was chapter 4 of IronPython in Action, which covers duck typing, design patterns, and introduces the MultiDoc example that’s used throughout the middle section of the book. One of the concepts [...]
31 Jul
D520 Week Two
Here’s my material from the second week of “D520: Programming” (in IronPython). The students got some brief notes [PDF] and the first proper lab exercise [PDF]. The recommended reading this week was a post by Lukas Mathis about poor hardware design (and lessons to be learnt), and a post by Wil Shipley about tracking down a [...]
23 Jul
D520 Week One
As promised, here’s my material from the first week of “D520: Programming” (in IronPython). I gave the students a set of revision exercises [PDF] (and example answers [zip]), a course outline [PDF], and some brief notes [PDF]. The notes have four sections (this pattern will continue): which chapters of the textbook are covered this week [...]
17 Jul
IronPython editor postscript
I earlier tried various editors I was considering using to teach IronPython. One of the glaring omissions was Eclipse/PyDev, which has built-in support and is a very well-known IDE (particularly in the Java community). The main reason that I skipped Eclipse was that when I was searching for an IDE to use professionally about five [...]
12 Jul
Choosing an IronPython editor for teaching
The Northtec D520 “Programming” course is changing to IronPython (from Visual Basic) this year, so I have to figure out what editor/IDE the students should use. In some ways, Visual Studio would be ideal, since they need to get exposed to that during the course (and it’s an excellent IDE, with a really great form [...]
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