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[Rick Spencer <rick.spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 18:13 +0200, Didier Roche wrote:
> On mer., 2010-06-02 at 08:05 -0700, Rick Spencer wrote:
> > > I'd suggest using gio for downloads, because that's async and won't
> > > block the UI.
> > > http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/03/15/download-files-async-with-gio-and-python/ is the answer here -- we should encourage people to do as much stuff as possible in an async way (maybe a wrapper library would be good here? http_download(url, callbackfunction) ? )
> > > 
> > Ah yes. I think we should do that next in the chapter. Get going with
> > just some quick code. "Oh! it's easy to do stuff on Ubuntu." Then, "oh,
> > I can even make it async pretty easy".
> 
> I think this is the good direction for teaching:
> 1. little and pretty example (sync state)
> 2. showing what's the limitation
> 3. showing how easy is to fix the first occurrence to make it async
> 
> With that you just learn one thing at a time and don't have to think
> about all cases at first iteration
> (oh btw, isn't that just… programming? ;))
Right, also ack on the btw. This is exactly what I'm thinking.

Cheers, Rick