Re: [Visualpython-users] Idle fixes starting up.

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

Now I find that this hall of mirrors is complete: Guilherme Polo tells 
me that the person who suggested to him that he approach David Scherer 
and me about including IDLE in his summer project was....Scott David 
Daniels!

Bruce Sherwood

Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> This is actually very humorous, as you'll see. For the benefit of those 
> who may not know about it, I'll comment that Google every year runs a 
> program called "Google Summer of Code" (GSoC) in which significant 
> open-source projects such as Python nominate students to work on 
> projects and Google pays the student. A mentor is assigned to the 
> student to give advice and follow progress.
> 
> One of this summer's Python projects was proposed by a Brazilian 
> student, Guilherme Polo, who had done good work in two previous GSoC 
> programs, and the project was accepted by the Python group. Polo 
> proposed doing a lot of maintenance and bug fixes on Tk and IDLE. His 
> mentor was....me! So yes, I do know about Polo's work, and I'm really 
> excited about it.
> 
> David Scherer and I had a wish list of IDLE fixes and changes which are 
> among the things Polo worked on. To give just one example: There are now 
> thousands of students every semester learning about computational 
> modeling in introductory university physics classes by writing VPython 
> programs (see http://www.matterandinteractions.org). These are novice 
> programmers. It is common for them to stare at a non-moving image 
> without it occurring to them that the halt could be due to a program 
> error. Polo has implemented that the shell window containing the error 
> comes forward to be seen, which should make a huge difference.
> 
> The GSoC is nearly at an end, and Polo is finishing up his work. The 
> presumption is that this will make it into the official IDLE for Python, 
> but in the meantime I'll change the temporary VIDLE to be the new 
> version. Hurray!
> 
> Bruce Sherwood
> 
> Scott David Daniels wrote:
>> Hey Bruce, did you notice gpolo's flurry of checkins on Idle?
>> It might be a good time to see what is still a bug, and what is not.
>>
>> A number of year-old and older issues got addressed.
>>
>> --Scott David Daniels
>> Sco...@Ac...
> 
> 
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