I used the iPad’s external screen output for the second time today (the first was trying out Chopper 2 with the TV as the screen and iPhone as controller) – this time not just as an experiment. I have a set of revision worksheets (all PDFs that I inherited many years ago – I might [...]
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9 Aug
D520 Week Three – 2010
Last year Chapter Four of IronPython in Action was covered over two weeks (the lab is also a two-part exercise), and I felt that worked fairly well, so kept the same plan for this year, although the exact parts that were covered each week changed. As usual, the students received notes [PDF], and a lab [...]
9 Aug
D520 Week Two – 2010
No radical changes from either last year’s week two or last week. In a way, this is the real first week – in the previous week we learn about the course and about what IronPython is (and remember how to program in Python), but we don’t do much more than that. In the second week, [...]
26 Jul
What happened to the 2009 IPy Notes?
Around this time last year, I started posting weekly reports on the IronPython classes I was teaching at Northtec, including copies of the material that I was giving the students. These stopped abruptly around the middle of the course. The course did complete (and was fairly successful – I think the change to IronPython was [...]
21 Sep
More notes coming soon
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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