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Introduction

This is a listing of schools that are using Python in their curriculum.

I would like to confirm each of the schools below by linking to a specific web page with a course listing and/or the professor(s) teaching classes that involve the use of Python. Each listing should be expanded with a description of how Python is being used. -- KevinAltis

Need to copy info from:

• http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/pyBiblio/schools.php

High Schools

• Yorktown High School, in Arlington Virginia ([http://www.elkner.net/ Jeff Elkner])

Colleges and Universities

Australia

• University of New South Wales
  • Computer science taught/teaches course(s) with Python (as of about 2001)

Canada

• University of Waterloo

  • One of the more prestigious engineering/comp-sci schools in Canada is using it officially in [http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs488/ CS488 (Intro to 3D graphics)], and I'm told there's lots of use among faculty, staff and students. I don't think they actually teach much Python, they're focused on teaching OpenGL/graphics programming, but they do wind up using it as the framework into which the students slot their code.

• Cégep du Vieux-Montréal
  • Used for Advanced Web Development course (420-B63-VM)

  • Note: Cégeps are collegiate level schools giving a 2 year pre-university program or a 3 year professionnal program such as [http://www.cvm.qc.ca/informatique/pages/main.html Computing Technology]

France

• Université Bordeaux 1

  • Python is used as a first language for the Science & Technology licence

  • http://dept-info.labri.fr/initinfo/index.html

• Université Paris 13 - IUT Villetaneuse

  • Python is used as a first language for the Telecom & Networks DUT

  • http://www-gtr.iutv.univ-paris13.fr/Cours

United Kingdom

• University of Oxford
  • Department of Physics (need to confirm)

  • http://www-teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk/computing/Programming/Python/Oxford/html/handbook_Python.html

United States

California

• University of California, Irvine

  • http://www.eng.uci.edu/catalogue/?page=engr_9

  • http://wingide.com/pipermail/marketing-python/2003-March/004157.html

• University of California Santa Cruz Extension in Sunnyvale CA

Colorado

• University of Northern Colorado

Connecticut

• Wesleyan University

Florida

• University of Florida

Georgia

• Georgia Tech

  • [http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs1315 Introduction to Media Computation]

Idaho

• Lewis & Clark State College

Iowa

• University of Iowa
• Wartburg College
  • Zelle's school

Kentucky

• Morehead State University

Massachusetts

• Hampshire College

Michigan

• Kalamazoo College

Minnesota

• Minnesota State at Bemidji

Mississippi

• Mississippi College

Missouri

• Southeast Missouri State

Ohio

• Capital University
  • Python is used in the traditional CS1 course using John Zelle's book
  • Python and C++ are used in CS2
  • lab assignments in many courses may be written in Python or C++
  • contact person: David Reed (dreed (at) capital.edu)
• Kent State

Oregon

• Mt Hood Community College

Pennsylvania

• Bryn Mawr College

need to confirm

• North Carolina State University
• California State University, Chico
• Centre College
• Rochester Institute of Technology
• University of Arizona
• University of Wisconsin, Madison

• University of Istanbul (http://www.linuxfocus.org/Francais/October1998/article67.html)

Books

• [http://www.fbeedle.com/99-6.html Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science] by John Zelle. Also see John Zelle's [http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/ Teaching with Python].

• Introduction to Media Computation: A Multimedia Cookbook in Python

  • http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-plan

• [http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python] by Allen Downey, Jeff Elkner and Chris Meyers

• Also see PythonBooks

Other Materials

• [http://www.python.org/other/python.mov Introducing Python] (Quicktime video, 14 minutes long, 68MB)

Related Pages

• PythonInScience

  You might rename this page SchoolsTeachingPython.

  This page covers schools that use Python in the curriculum even if they aren't teaching Python. This may seem subtle, but it is an important distinction. -- KevinAltis