Python Advocacy Kit for University Educators

The intent of this page is to collect ideas on what should be included in such a kit. Elsewhere, we are soliciting flyers and whitepapers which when finished will be used to make up advocacy kits.

Suppose you're a professor at a university and you'd like to adopt Python in the classroom. Perhaps you're teaching programming or perhaps you're teaching physics, chemistry or some other topic and know that Python can give students the modeling and analysis tools gain further insight. What materials would you need to make that happen?

This wiki page is a collection point - we will later relocate, organize with other related content and write abstracts about them so that others can find them more easily.

• a "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks What is Python]" flyer

• a "What is Python" introductory video for sharing or showing in a group
• a "What is Python" podcast for sharing with those who aren't convinced to spend time at a user group meeting (unlike the video, for listening while doing something else)

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks Python in the Classroom]" whitepaper

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks Replacing Matlab with Python]" whitepaper

• a whitepaper to share with your peers or a curriculum review board explaining why Python is relevant in today's educational environment.
• a 2-sided flyer of Python resources, listing summary availability of user groups, books, trainers and speakers.

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks Using Python with Java] whitepaper

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks Python for C++ Programmers]" whitepaper

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks Using Python with .NET]" whitepaper

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks Python and Databases]" whitepaper

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks Scientific Computing with Python]" whitepaper

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks Data Visualization and Graphing with Python]" whitepaper

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks Cool Python Features]" whitepaper

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks Comparing Python to Java]" whitepaper

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks Comparing Python to Ruby]" whitepaper

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks This Python is No Tortoise]" whitepaper

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks Gaming with Python]" whitepaper, for its potential educational uses

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks Starting a Python User Group]" whitepaper, for encouraging one on campus

• "[wiki:AdvocacyWritingTasks Campus Flyer]" to build student interest perhaps

• ???

There is quite a mix of whitepapers above because it isn't possible to guess which topics the educator is teaching. But by providing them all in a kit, the inside advocate can select those appropriate to his university.

For active discussion on advocating the use of Python, please join the [http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy Advocacy mailing list] and visit the [http://advocacy.python.org/getinvolved Advocacy - Get Involved!] site.

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