On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 13:23 +0100, John Pinner wrote: > On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > > On 09/09/2011 12:04, Nicholas Tollervey wrote: > >> > >> Here's one from me to kick things off: > >> > >> Roman Numeral Calculator - e.g. XI - III = IIX (Apparently, it's not > >> as easy as you'd think. Parsing / converting between Roman numerals / > >> numeric values apparently has some interesting "weird" rules to take > >> into account). :-) > > > > For those who haven't been involved, Nicholas has been trying to > > get us to vote for this Roman Numeral Converter pretty much every > > London Python Dojo for the last two years :) >
Shhhhh, don't tell them that! It'll never get chosen. :-/ > Maybe we should humour him, then. > What I'd like to know, is what about zero? > Or floats...? > > Maybe Coventry will be his lucky place? > > So we have to send him to Coventry so he can get it? > B'dum tish. Here's another favourite of mine: Create a simple text adventure game world. Navigate with commands like n,s,e and w and look at your surroundings with the, er, "look" command. Great fun if you want to understand directed graphs. :-) A variation on this theme is a "Hunt the Wumpus" clone. But then Tim would have to admit to *his* dojo "testing" secret. > john > -- > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
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