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 [...]
19 Jul
IronPython Course Notes – The Plan
Since I decided to use IronPython as the programming language for teaching D520 at Northtec, I’ve planned on putting my course material online so that anyone else planning on using IronPython in teaching can make whatever use of it they can. There won’t be a huge amount of material, especially in this first year, and [...]
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 [...]
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