[Olpc-socal] [support-gang] Have You Heard From The Machine?

[Janissa Balcomb]

Network Emailhi caryl & other python students, 

caryl - you put a burner under my butt with this email. i had gotten the class email, but it had no links, so i didn’t even think to find the materials or download python yet. when you say you downloaded the textbook, were you referring to the lecture notes, or is there an actual textbook? 

i plan to use my windows laptop running python, not the xo laptop, but i thought maybe if we have an xo laptop team, we could discuss how to use what we’re learning in this course for practical use with the xo’s.  i seem to remember reading somewhere that they were talking about small teams of up to 10. 

do you know how to find out what version of python the xo’s run?

janissa


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From: Caryl Bigenho 
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:20 AM
To: Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond t ; IAEP SugarLabs ; OLPC SoCal 
Subject: [support-gang] Have You Heard From The Machine?

Hi Janissa and others, 

If you are signed up for the M-MOOC Python class, read on.... If you aren't signed up but think you might want to be, see the "P.S." below.

I am signed up and I know several others from the so-cal and iaep lists are as well. I don't know how large the teams are supposed to be. If you looked at the resource from "The Machine" yesterday, it appears they had teams of 2 for the original MIT class. Maybe this will be different. We shall see. 


They also used a specific version of Python, 2.6.x. The version on the XO may be different. I would rather do mine on my Mac, but we can probably work on a team anyway.


I have downloaded the textbook and Python 2.6.6 and have bookmarked the two MIT OCW classes described in yesterday's message from The Machine.


Caryl


P.S. You can probably still sign up. The class starts October 15, but there is some prep work and orientation going on already. If you want to be a part of this experiment, here is the link: http://info.p2pu.org/2012/08/21/its-alive-the-mechanical-mooc-offers-gentle-intro-to-python/


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From: janissa at silverstar.com
To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:42:46 -0600
Subject: Re: [support-gang] FW: Tonight - A True History of the MOOC


I signed up for the Python class.  They mentioned that people can work in small teams.  Is there anyone taking the class who’d like to form an XO laptop team?  Janissa


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