November 2024 - LuCE-News

by matthias.hauswirth＠usi.ch

Dear all, Today just a quick update from the LuCE group at USI: We are very happy that so many of you responded to our survey. We haven’t analyzed the results yet, but a first glance shows that you wrote quite extensive answers. These will greatly help us. Thank you! We will send out the CHF 150 SBB-CFF-FFS vouchers to all participants who completed the survey soon after the (extended) November 24 submission deadline. We then will analyze the results and document this study in a paper. This will include the complete survey, so those of you who are interested in reusing the questions will be able to find all of them. We will include a link in a future LuCE News post once we have the paper out. In case you are a high school informatics teacher in Switzerland and haven’t participated yet, or you got interrupted after starting the survey, there’s still time. We would be very happy to include your response, too (and to send you a voucher). Just follow the link in the invitation mail we sent you. If you did not get an invitation mail, or if you know another informatics high school teacher in Switzerland who might not have been invited, simply contact me (Matthias.Hauswirth(a)usi.ch) and I’m happy to send an invite. We just have a time constraint: We need all responses by Sunday, November 24, 23:59. Greetings from Lugano, -Matthias PS: I can’t help but mention an additional small update: Based on a request from one of you, Luca’s neat Python documentation system (code-named “Judicious”, because it allows students to see the Python library documentation in a way that is meaningful to them at a given point), which is integrated into our web platform (https://pytamaro.si.usi.ch/documentation), now organizes related functions and constants in meaningful categories rather than showing you a long flat list (e.g., the French PyTamaro library documentation, at https://pytamaro.si.usi.ch/documentation/pytamaro.fr, includes categories for Couleurs, Graphiques primitifs, Opérations, Points, and Sortie). Oh, and in addition to showing the documentation of the PyTamaro library, it shows the documentation of commonly used Standard Python Library names (like sin or pi from math, or randint from random) and built-in Python names (like print, range, len, or int) in the same “Judicious” way. Let us know if you need documentation for a function or constant that’s not included.

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