Talk:Summer Workshops 2008

Gullifty's is located at 1140 East Lancaster Ave. in Bryn Mawr.

The Workshop Folder contains the college maps, wifi access info, a Workshop Schedule. They will get the Workshop Folder at the time of check-in in the Dorms. Those who are not staying in the dorms will get their folder at the registration desk. The desk will be set up outside Room 349, the lecture room where we will be doing most of the lectures. We will go round the room and do introductions (who, where from, why, what for, etc.).

presentation of the System Architecture: The robot, Python, Myro, Bluetooth, IDLE, and what the overall setup looks like.

or set it up already next to each computer. Kit will include the text. They will go through the motions of setting up the bluetooth connection, fire up the gamepad() demo and use it to drive the robot manually through a maze. 30 mins should suffice. Those who finish early and are itching to get going, ask them to sit down and start reading/thumbing through the text.

robot example programs. No more than 25-30 min of presentation. Then leave them alone for the last 25-30 min to try out their hand at Python. Perhaps they can implement a program we give them to try out. Jay...a simple light follower? With an exercise for those who finish early to turn it into an obstacle avoider?

and Subsumption. Exercise for them for the next session will be to implement robot behaviors using each of the paradigms. Advanced exercise: A subsumption style brain for light following and obstacle avoidance? They should start to think about some other behaviors for the next session.

brainstorm about some interesting ideas/projects and try their hand at other things.

This session is too long. Keith let us know if we should split it, shorten it and merge with the next session or a hands-on session? Show examples of computing primes using list comprehensions, quicksort using list comprehensions. I was planning on doing dictionaries, classes, file IO, useful libraries (sys, urllib2, random), lambda/map/filter/reduce, and list comprehensions. Might be a good opportunity to field specific questions about python too? Should I try to keep the examples in the robot context or more traditional examples (primes, sorts, etc.)? May also want to cover some of the esoteric Myro functions: ask, askQuestion, pickAFile, etc...

tech support over their shoulder.

We all should have a short recap meeting after people leave. We should probably encourage people to form groups and go to different places for dinner...including Philly. Perhaps we could all split up with these groups and go different places? Ideas?