On Dec 16, 5:45 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote: > * Mensanator: > > > > > > > On Dec 16, 4:41 pm, Mensanator <mensana...@aol.com> wrote: > >> On Dec 14, 1:23 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote: > > >>> * Alf P. Steinbach: > >>>> Format: PDF > >>>> <url:http://preview.tinyurl.com/ProgrammingBookP3> > >>>> The new stuff, section 2.7, is about programs as simulations and > >>>> handling data, focusing on modeling things. It includes some Python GUI > >>>> programming. The plan is to discuss containers like lists and > >>>> dictionaries in perhaps two more subsections of 2.7, but I'm not quite > >>>> sure about how to approach that or exactly how much to cover, since the > >>>> intent of ch 2 is to introduce mostly general concepts and enable the > >>>> reader to try out (more or less) interesting things. > >>>> Cheers, > >>>> - Alf > >>>> PS: comments welcome! > >>> Well, I posted the current doc. It has a not yet quite complete section > >>> 2.7.7 > >>> about arrays, and that will be the last subsection of the chapter. I > >>> thought > >>> using the Josephus circle problem as example was pretty neat... :-) > >>> But anyway, comments welcome, even if that last section's not yet > >>> finished. > >>> Cheers, > >>> - Alf > >>> PS: Oh, I changed the manuscript title to "Intelligent Person's Intro to > >>> Programming" -- is that good? > >> Sure. After all, "Idiot's Guide to Programming" and "Programming for > >> Dummies" are probably already taken, albeit more appropriate > > > Oh, and about Chapter 1. > > > If you're going to use version 3.1.1 as your standard, shouldn't > > you also point out that 3.1.1 is NOT bundled with Mac OS X? > > > How about devoting a section on downloading the source files > > and compiling it on a Mac? > > Learn to read. > > At the top of every second page it tells you that this is an introduction > based > on Windows.
Still, no excuse for giving out mis-information. It's just as easy to get these things right. > > Cheers & hth., > > - Alf- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
