<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>The version of python on the Mac, Fedora, XO, etc. while they might not be the same, should be similar enough that all people learning the language should find 99% of their program code function the same. There is that 1%, but my estimation is that you would have to use more advanced or esoteric functions to find a difference. There is the transition to Python 3 but I'm not up on that difference. So.. dont worry about any issues until there are issues and then just ask someone with more python skill to explain.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>-Kev</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Janissa Balcomb <janissa@silverstar.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond t <support-gang@lists.laptop.org>; IAEP SugarLabs <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>; OLPC SoCal <olpc-socal@laptop.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 27, 2012 2:25 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [support-gang] Have You Heard From The Machine?<br> </font> </div> <br> <meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv670441152"><title>Network Email</title> <style></style> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; "> <div>hi caryl & other python students, </div> <div> </div> <div>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? </div> <div> </div> <div>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. </div> <div> </div> <div>do you know how to find out what version of python the xo’s run?</div> <div> </div> <div>janissa</div> <div> </div> <hr> <div style="font-style: normal; display: inline; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; "> <div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-family: tahoma; "> <div> </div> <div style="BACKGROUND:#f5f5f5;"> <div style=""><b>From:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="cbigenho@hotmail.com" ymailto="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">Caryl Bigenho</a> </div> <div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:20 AM</div> <div><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="support-gang@lists.laptop.org" ymailto="mailto:support-gang@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:support-gang@lists.laptop.org">Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond t</a> ; <a rel="nofollow" title="iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" ymailto="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP SugarLabs</a> ; <a rel="nofollow" title="olpc-socal@laptop.org" ymailto="mailto:olpc-socal@laptop.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:olpc-socal@laptop.org">OLPC SoCal</a> </div> <div><b>Subject:</b> [support-gang] Have You Heard From The Machine?</div></div></div> <div> </div></div> <div style="font-style: normal; display: inline; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; "> <div dir="ltr">Hi Janissa and others, <div> </div> <div>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.</div> <div> </div> <div>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 "<b>The Machine" </b>yesterday, it appears they had teams of 2 for the original MIT class. Maybe this will be different. We shall see. </div> <div><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;"><br></span></div> <div><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;">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.</span></div> <div><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;"><br></span></div> <div><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;">I have downloaded the textbook and Python 2.6.6 and have bookmarked the two MIT OCW classes described in yesterday's message from <b>The Machine</b>.</span></div> <div><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;"><br></span></div> <div><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;">Caryl</span></div> <div><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;"><br></span></div> <div><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;">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: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;">http://info.p2pu.org/2012/08/21/its-alive-the-mechanical-mooc-offers-gentle-intro-to-python/</span></div> <div> <div> </div> <div> <hr id="yiv670441152stopSpelling"> From: janissa@silverstar.com<br>To: support-gang@lists.laptop.org<br>Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:42:46 -0600<br>Subject: Re: [support-gang] FW: Tonight - A True History of the MOOC<br><br> <style></style> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; "> <div>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</div> <div> </div> <hr> <div style="font-style: normal; display: inline; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; "> <div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-family: tahoma; "> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font></div></div></div> <div style="font-style: normal; display: inline; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; "> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div><img alt="" width="1" height="1"></div></div></div><br> <hr> _______________________________________________<br>support-gang mailing list<br>support-gang@lists.laptop.org<br>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang<br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________ support-gang mailing list support-gang@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang</div></div></div> <div> </div><hr> _______________________________________________<br>support-gang mailing list<br>support-gang@lists.laptop.org<br>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang<br></div></div></div></div> </div><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="on"><br>_______________________________________________<br>support-gang mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:support-gang@lists.laptop.org" href="mailto:support-gang@lists.laptop.org">support-gang@lists.laptop.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>