Re: [BangPypers] Python at Schools

2009-09-30 Thread shameek ghosh
Few months back I was tutoring a group of 6th standard studentss.So I introduced programming by teaching them Alice - www.alice.org. And then I realized that understanding "why to program?" was a lot more important than "how to program?" - a confusion I had when in the 6th standard.Though I enjoyed

Re: [BangPypers] Why do indians copy?

2009-10-15 Thread shameek ghosh
Coming back to the main questions.[:)] 1. Why do indian programmers ask for code in Usenet (particularly Google groups) ? How many Indians do you think can actually code?Most can't.They think they do, but they don't.Think of when we were in college, how many of us actually worked hard and coded

Re: [BangPypers] designing programs

2010-06-26 Thread shameek ghosh
Well...Although I have not done this much, but I believe a modelling tool like UML helps when you show your design to somebody else and secondly there might be cases where UML like modelling tools may also be converted to some specific code. I do beleive the second point is an important reason wh

Re: [BangPypers] designing programs

2010-06-26 Thread shameek ghosh
, 2010 at 9:02 PM, shameek ghosh > wrote: > > Well...Although I have not done this much, but I believe a modelling > tool > > like UML helps when you show your design to somebody else and secondly > there > > might be cases where UML like modelling tools may also be

Re: [BangPypers] Starting a Pune User Group.

2012-10-18 Thread shameek ghosh
Hi, I was looking for a group like this for some time in Pune. Thanks for creating the same.I have joined. Regards, Shameek https://sites.google.com/site/shameek09/ On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Anand B Pillai wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Satyajit Ranjeev < > satyajit.ranj...@g