Re: Combing Medusa's Hair... (Design Pattern)

2010-12-14 Thread kirby urner
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: << snip >> >> >> In this design pattern, you have something like a dry cleaner's, >> where people submit jobs at the counter, and go away right >> away with a ticket (Python returns -- but keeps running).  When >> they come back is more up t

Re: Packages at Python.org

2010-12-01 Thread kirby urner
Good to hear from you sir. I've enjoying working with your modules and am getting some good results. I sent you a note off-list wondering how actively you might be supporting this valuable utility. Encouraging to find you here so quickly. Kirby On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Ethan Furman wr

Re: [Edu-sig] [ANNC] pynguin-0.7 (python turtle graphics application)

2010-04-11 Thread kirby urner
2010/4/11 Lee Harr : > > Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application. >     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and >     graphics display area. > I like the idea of using turtles to plot graphs. Replacing graphing calculators with Python is easier when there are simple plot

Re: [Edu-sig] odd drawing problem with turtle.py

2010-02-01 Thread kirby urner
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Brian Blais wro > > I don't see where you've defined a Turtle class to instantiate sir. > > > Turtle is given in turtle.py. I should have subclassed it, but I was being > lazy. :) > > thanks for the fast replies! > > > > bb > > > No obvious need to subclass.

Re: [Edu-sig] odd drawing problem with turtle.py

2010-01-31 Thread kirby urner
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Vern Ceder wrote: > kirby urner wrote: >> >> I don't see where you've defined a Turtle class to instantiate sir. > > The Turtle class is part of the turtle library, so that's not an issue. > Hey, good point Vern, not firing

Re: [Edu-sig] odd drawing problem with turtle.py

2010-01-31 Thread kirby urner
I don't see where you've defined a Turtle class to instantiate sir. Perhaps rename Circle to Turtle and rewrite the circle-drawing expression as: > c=Turtle(randint(-350,350),randint(-250,250),10,"red") You are making progress with a wrapper class for the Standard Library turtle. That's a w

Re: [Edu-sig] some turtle questions

2010-01-25 Thread kirby urner
Hi Brian -- If you wanna go to a lot of work, but not a huge amount, write wrapper class for the Standard Library turtle that intercepts its commands and updates an on-board data structure, representing pixels x pixels, specifying self position, keep color info stashed per each one. That's a lot

Re: [Edu-sig] teaching python using turtle module

2009-12-01 Thread kirby urner
that much strong thanks to you. Kirby [1] Eber, Dorothy Harley. Genius At Work. about AGB is one of my fave syllabus entries, obscure and fun. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:52 PM, kirby urner wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Gregor Lingl wrote: > > << fascinating code >>

Re: [Edu-sig] teaching python using turtle module

2009-11-30 Thread kirby urner
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Gregor Lingl wrote: << fascinating code >> > > Hoping, you will find this a bit interesting, > best regards > > Gregor > Really enlightening, both mathematically and from a coding point of view. I hadn't used turtle.py enough yet to know about the built-in "con

Re: [Edu-sig] teaching python using turtle module

2009-11-30 Thread kirby urner
I'm glad turtle graphics intersected my thinking re extended precision decimals (Decimal type) on edu-sig just now. I've updated my tmods.py to contain a turtle rendering the plane-net of a T-mod: http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/tmod.py (runnable source) http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157..

Re: [Edu-sig] teaching python using turtle module

2009-11-29 Thread kirby urner
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: << snip >> > Drunkard's Walk. > If our think tank (isepp.org) could have gotten permission, we'd have used that Monopoly guy (looks kinda like Planters peanut guy) randomly walking on like some chess board with a lamp post (reminds of Narni

Re: newbie question: if var1 == var2:

2008-11-29 Thread kirby urner
It's the newline after each word that's messing you up. var = "tree\n" ... or if item.strip() == var: ... etc. Kirby On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 7:47 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I dont understand why the following code never finds "tree". > I could not find the answer in the Py

Re: [Edu-sig] "do" as a keyword

2007-12-12 Thread kirby urner
> I find that when teaching beginning programmers, they usually think in > "until" terms, and not "while" terms. > If really beginning, an overview of this whole idea of control structures makes sense, such as this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_flow Then explain how Pyth

Re: fclient project seeking co-coders

2007-10-28 Thread kirby urner
Another Urner, that's interesting. Not many of us. Kirby Urner Portland, Oregon USA On 10/28/07, Jürgen Urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I Just recently registered a project fclient to sourceforge.net > [http://sourceforge.net/projects/fclien

Re: New mailing list mirrors

2007-06-10 Thread kirby urner
Thanks tomer, I joined both through Google. Kirby "moe" Urner 4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html myspace.com/4dstudios [EMAIL PROTECTED] (moe rhymes with Minister of Education was my thinking -- a portfolio I sometimes grab for a gig, but always put back where I found it). On 6/10/07, sebulba <[EMAIL

Re: [Edu-sig] minimum age to learn python (a.k.a graphical vs text languages)

2007-03-10 Thread kirby urner
On 3/10/07, Andreas Raab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kirby urner wrote: > > I just talked to the computer teacher yesterday and he > > was reporting some rumor that future versions of Alice will > > center around the same Sims as in Sims, which my daughter > > p

Re: [Edu-sig] minimum age to learn python (a.k.a graphical vs text languages)

2007-03-10 Thread kirby urner
<< questions about others' experience >> > Is it no big deal either way? > > >thanks, > >Brian Blais Hi Brian -- Lego Mindstorms is popular in my neck of the woods (Silicon Forest -- Oregon), starting in middle school. I helped coach a team a few years ago