Pythonic Andragogy

I am in the process of developing some Python warm-up notebooks, for a cohort coming my way.  My role as their instructor, is to dive right away into 3rd party libraries numpy and pandas.  That's very doable, this is a logical on-ramp or doorway in.

However, there's another part of me that knows you're joining the comic strip late in the game, as some say. There's a lot more to Python than we know. Does that matter?  How much Python coding should a student have, when starting in on a first Jupyter Notebook?  I have no dogma or catechism on the matter.

What I'm playing with though, are these warm-up notebooks, but with an eye to introducing what's to follow.  Python is big in server side development, and with PyScript to Webassembly a thing, may soon coexist on the front end somehow.  I'm not counting my chickens.  The point is that Python forks into many walks of life, as the primitive drawing (above) hopes to illustrate.

I put SQL and SQLAlchemy towards the trunk for a reason.  True, Guido is not an SQL hound, that's not his bag.  His focus was elegance and simplicity of syntax, if you think that's possible in an object oriented language.  Is English object oriented?  Sure.  It's oriented around objects (or call them things), which come in types.

Speaking of types, what I'm thinking is a little groundbreaking, is I throw the function type into the mix, as another type, a callable type.  Then we have instances of the function type.  No, we don't get to them with keyword class, but keyword def instead.  That fits our brains.

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A Western Friend

Carol Urner 

(April 21, 1929 - January 30, 2023)

Peace Activist

Her bio as told by me is currently scattered among these many blog posts, however I'm preparing a more gathered telling.  

Carol lived all around the world, accompanying her late husband, Jack Urner whom she met at the University of Washington (Seattle).

I wrote Peace Activist as her line of work, with the Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) her industry, on the online form, for transcribing to the official death certificate.

She worked a lot with women, helping them start their own small handicrafts businesses, especially in the Philippines and Bangladesh.  She taught school, wrote textbooks, and participated in democratization and indigenous peoples rights projects.  When living in Cairo, she worked with the famously named Zabbaleen ("garbage people" -- they collect garbage from Cairo).

When in the USA, she worked on various issues with Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).  

She wrote articles for a number of Quaker journals, including at least two Pendle Hill pamphlets.