I gave a talk for the SF Python Meetup on lambda expressions:
(If you can't see the slides above, you can see them here.)
(If you can't see the slides above, you can see them here.)
In his keynote at PyCon, Eben Upton, the Executive Director of the Rasberry Pi Foundation, mentioned that not only has Minecraft been ported to the Rasberry Pi, but you can even control it with Python . Since four of my kids are avid Minecraft fans, I figured this might be a good time to teach them to program using Python. So I started yesterday with the goal of programming something cool for Minecraft and then showing it off at the San Francisco Python Meetup in the evening. The first problem that I faced was that I didn't have a Rasberry Pi. You can't hack Minecraft by just installing the Minecraft client. Speaking of which, I didn't have the Minecraft client installed either ;) My kids always play it on their Nexus 7s. I found an open source Minecraft server called Bukkit that "provides the means to extend the popular Minecraft multiplayer server." Then I found a plugin called RaspberryJuice that implements a subset of the Minecraft Pi modding API for B
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I teach a high school Python class and have lately become quite enamored with Python's inclusion of many great ideas from LISP.
I have found that the most natural introduction to anonymous functions comes when we start dealing with event handling in GUIs--whether it be Java or Python. Stephen Ferg (and Fredrik Lundh) were great resources for this topic.