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John> Another project I thought of was a Pig Latin translator. (But do kids today John> even know what Pig Latin is? Am I showing my age?) Chris> Even if they don't, they'll grok it no problem. It's simple enough. Google for "Python pig latin" to see a lot of "prior art". And it might be usefu

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al dependencies. // joseph w. clark , phd , visiting research associate \\ university of nebraska at omaha - college of IS&T > Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:49:40 -0700 > Subject: Homework help requested, thanks to everyone. > From: john_lada...@sbcglobal.net > To: python-list@python.org &g

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In article , Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:49 AM, John Ladasky > wrote: > > Another project I thought of was a Pig Latin translator. (But do kids > > today even know what Pig Latin is? Am I showing my age?) > > > Even if they don't, they'll grok it no problem. It's simp

Re: Homework help requested, thanks to everyone.

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:49 AM, John Ladasky wrote: > Another project I thought of was a Pig Latin translator. (But do kids today > even know what Pig Latin is? Am I showing my age?) Even if they don't, they'll grok it no problem. It's simple enough. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Homework help requested, thanks to everyone.

Thanks to everyone for their wealth of suggestions. I already had my students playing with turtle. And I had asked them to alphabetize a string (without having previously revealed the sorted() function). So far, I have taken up the suggestion of the number-guessing game. One of my students h

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f Roman names and it will give you fake names that sound Roman. // joseph w. clark , phd , visiting research associate \\ university of nebraska at omaha - college of IS&T > Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:43:45 -0700 > Subject: Homework help

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On Thursday 18 July 2013 09:04:32 Albert van der Horst did opine: > In article , > > Chris Angelico wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM, John Ladasky > > > > wrote: > >> I think that they're disappointed when I show them how much they have > >> to > > > >understand just to write a program

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In article , Chris Angelico wrote: >On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM, John Ladasky > wrote: >> I think that they're disappointed when I show them how much they have to >understand just to write a program that plays Tic Tac Toe. > > >The disillusionment of every novice programmer, I think. It start

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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:43 PM, John Ladasky wrote: > Hi folks, > > No, I'm not asking for YOU to help ME with a Python homework assignment! > > Previously, I mentioned that I was starting to teach my son Python. > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.python/I7spp6iC3tw/8lxUXfrL-9gJ > > He

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On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 4:13:45 AM UTC+5:30, John Ladasky wrote: > Hi folks, > > > > No, I'm not asking for YOU to help ME with a Python homework assignment! > > > > Previously, I mentioned that I was starting to teach my son Python. > > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.

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On 17/07/2013 11:29 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote: Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but you'd need a huge list of names broken into syllables from somewhere. You could use names broken into letters... or skip the not

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2013-07-17, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote: >>> Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but >>> you'd need a huge list of names broken into syllables from >>> somewhere.

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On 2013-07-17, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote: >> Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but >> you'd need a huge list of names broken into syllables from >> somewhere. > > You could use names broken into letters... or skip the n

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote: > Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but > you'd need a huge list of names broken into syllables from > somewhere. You could use names broken into letters... or skip the notion of names and just generate words. Lists

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On 2013-07-16, John Ladasky wrote: > So, what I am seeking are suggestions for programming > assignments that I can give to brand-new students of Python. > Please keep in mind that none of them are even up to the task > of a simple algorithm like Bubble Sort -- at least, not yet. One of the first

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On 17 jul 2013, at 08:35, alex23 wrote: > On 17/07/2013 8:43 AM, John Ladasky wrote: >> The kids all claim to be interested. They all want to write the next great >> 3D video game. Thus, I'm a little surprised that the kids don't actually >> try to sit down and code without me prompting them.

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On 16 July 2013 23:43, John Ladasky wrote: > > Well, a few other parents caught wind of what I was doing with my son, and > they asked me whether I could tutor their kids, too. I accepted the jobs > (for pay, actually). > > The kids all claim to be interested. They all want to write the next g

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On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:43:45 -0700, John Ladasky wrote: > The kids all claim to be interested. They all want to write the next > great 3D video game. Thus, I'm a little surprised that the kids don't > actually try to sit down and code without me prompting them. I think > that they're disappoint

Re: Homework help requested (not what you think!)

On 17/07/2013 8:43 AM, John Ladasky wrote: The kids all claim to be interested. They all want to write the next great 3D video game. Thus, I'm a little surprised that the kids don't actually try to sit down and code without me prompting them. I think that they're disappointed when I show th

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > There is a book : http://inventwithpython.com/ Invent Your Own Computer > Games with Python > which claims to teach people to program games in python. I haven't read it, > but it seems to be for beginning programmers. Take a look.. Maybe

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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM, John Ladasky > wrote: > > I think that they're disappointed when I show them how much they have to > understand just to write a program that plays Tic Tac Toe. > > > The disillusionment of every novice prog

Re: Homework help requested (not what you think!)

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM, John Ladasky wrote: > I think that they're disappointed when I show them how much they have to > understand just to write a program that plays Tic Tac Toe. The disillusionment of every novice programmer, I think. It starts out as "I want to learn programming and

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You have to utilize a set curriculum to teach. Look at several books like Dive Into Python, and such, then work with the student on an individualized project for each one. For 3D you go with pygame and trig, or go with Blender's python API or matplotlib. Just at first show the basic types of data,

Homework help requested (not what you think!)

Hi folks, No, I'm not asking for YOU to help ME with a Python homework assignment! Previously, I mentioned that I was starting to teach my son Python. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.python/I7spp6iC3tw/8lxUXfrL-9gJ He just took a course at his high school called Web Technology and D

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someone wrote: I have a professor who should be [*snip*] the best person I've ever met I hope he's (not) reading this list :o) Non python advise : be very careful on the internet. JM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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On Saturday, April 21, 2012 5:48:29 PM UTC-5, BartC wrote: > "someone" wrote in message > news:9533449.630.1335042672358.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynmf4... > > On Saturday, April 21, 2012 3:44:49 PM UTC-5, BartC wrote: > > > Hi, Bart: Thank you, your post is working now, maybe, I did somethi

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On 04/21/2012 02:14 PM, someone wrote: > Thanks for your reply Mr. Roy Smith. Also, thanks for the tip. Maybe > I did not make myself as clear or maybe you did not understand my > post. It states homework help, and I am doing this post to get help > before I pay somebody to show me

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On 21/04/12 23:48, BartC wrote: "someone" wrote in message news:9533449.630.1335042672358.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynmf4... On Saturday, April 21, 2012 3:44:49 PM UTC-5, BartC wrote: Hi, Bart: Thank you, your post is working now, maybe, I did something wrong, unfortunately, you are rig

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"someone" wrote in message news:9533449.630.1335042672358.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynmf4... On Saturday, April 21, 2012 3:44:49 PM UTC-5, BartC wrote: Hi, Bart: Thank you, your post is working now, maybe, I did something wrong, unfortunately, you are right, my setup for getting the file

Re: Newbie, homework help, please.

On 4/21/2012 22:26, GrayShark wrote: --- #!/usr/bin/python xl = ["First Name and Last","ENGR 109-X","Fall 2999","Format Example"] xl_max = 0 for x in xl: xl_max = max ( len( x ), xl_max ) Or xl_max = max([len(x) for x in xl]) topBorder = '^'*( xl_max + 4 ) pr

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On Saturday, April 21, 2012 3:44:49 PM UTC-5, BartC wrote: > "someone" wrote in message > news:9071485.2215.1335040139144.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yniw15... > > > Thanks Bart for trying, it helped me out a little more by showing me a > > little more than I knew, but I tried and I am not sur

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"someone" wrote in message news:9071485.2215.1335040139144.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yniw15... Thanks Bart for trying, it helped me out a little more by showing me a little more than I knew, but I tried and I am not sure if it does fit my example due to it was too many stars in between the

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"someone" wrote in message news:4068590.2196.1335038608255.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjn4... textTuple = border(SHI) for lines in textTuple: print (lines) Thanks your Bart for trying, I don't understand how it works or if you tried to place my script in python to see if it would wo

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On Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:28:33 PM UTC-5, someone wrote: > Ok, this is my dillema, not only am I new to this programming buisness, > before the last few days, I did not even know what python was, and besides > opening up the internet or word documents, that is most of what I know. Yet, > I

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A lot of to do about this. --- #!/usr/bin/python xl = ["First Name and Last","ENGR 109-X","Fall 2999","Format Example"] xl_max = 0 for x in xl: xl_max = max ( len( x ), xl_max ) topBorder = '^'*( xl_max + 4 ) print topBorder for x in xl: print "* %s%s *

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On 04/21/12 14:44, Roy Smith wrote: > print "* %-*s *" % (max_length, data) On Apr 21, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > Sounds like a lot more work and less flexible than using the (underemployed) > .ljust() or .center() methods of a string. :-) > > print "* %s *" % data.ljust(42) Six o

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t;*"+" "*(stringlength - 2)+"*" > fancyText="* "+string+" *" > return(hBorder,spacer,fancyText,hBorder) > > textTuple = border(SHI) > for lines in textTuple: > print (lines) Thanks for your reply Mr. Roy Smith. Also, thanks

Re: Newbie, homework help, please.

On Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:28:33 PM UTC-5, someone wrote: > Ok, this is my dillema, not only am I new to this programming buisness, > before the last few days, I did not even know what python was, and besides > opening up the internet or word documents, that is most of what I know. Yet, > I

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On 04/21/12 14:44, Roy Smith wrote: *** * * * First Name and Last * * ENGR 109-X * * Fall 2999 * * Format Example * * * *** You

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In article <32945367.2045.1335029313436.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjn4>, someone wrote: I'm not going to do your homework for you (nor do I expect anybody else will), but I'll give you a hint about one sticky part. > 6) Display the SHI data read from the file in the interpreter with a b

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"someone" wrote in message news:32945367.2045.1335029313436.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjn4... 6) Display the SHI data read from the file in the interpreter with a border around the SHI data (include a buffer of 1 line/space between the border and SHI data). An example might look like:

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On 21/04/2012 18:28, someone wrote: Ok, this is my dillema, not only am I new to this programming buisness, before the last few days, I did not even know what python was, and besides opening up the internet or word documents, that is most of what I know. Yet, I have a professor who should be o

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On Saturday, 21 April 2012 18:35:26 UTC+1, someone wrote: > On Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:28:33 PM UTC-5, someone wrote: > > Ok, this is my dillema, not only am I new to this programming buisness, > > before the last few days, I did not even know what python was, and besides > > opening up the

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On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:28 AM, someone wrote: > for item in userinput: >    openfile=open(textfile,'w');openfile.writelines("%s\n" % item for item in > userinput);openfile.close() The for loop here means that the file will be written and rewritten four times. The end result is the same, but

Re: Newbie, homework help, please.

On Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:28:33 PM UTC-5, someone wrote: > Ok, this is my dillema, not only am I new to this programming buisness, > before the last few days, I did not even know what python was, and besides > opening up the internet or word documents, that is most of what I know. Yet, > I

Newbie, homework help, please.

Ok, this is my dillema, not only am I new to this programming buisness, before the last few days, I did not even know what python was, and besides opening up the internet or word documents, that is most of what I know. Yet, I have a professor who should be on Psych medication for giving us 3 pro

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On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:11:12 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hey guys >I haev this homework assignment due today >I don't necessarily want the answers, but need help on how to approach >it/the steps i need to solve the problems I can see at least two possible approaches: Approach 1: (i)

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On 2008-04-01, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Write a function zip(lst1, lst2) such that zip accepts two equal >> length lists and returns a list of pairs. For example, zip(['a', 'b', >> 'c'], [10, 20, 30]) should evaluate to the list [('a', 10), ('b', 20), >> ('c', 30)]. >

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> > Write a function zip(lst1, lst2) such that zip accepts two equal > > length lists and returns a list of pairs. For example, zip(['a', 'b', > > 'c'], [10, 20, 30]) should evaluate to the list [('a', 10), ('b', 20), > > ('c', 30)]. > > Hey not even a rebinding necessary. :-) > We had some

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On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:11:12 -0700, bobby.connor wrote: > # (2 Points) Write a python function howMany(item,lst) which accepts > an item and a lst of items and returns the number of times item occurs > in lst. For example, howMany(3,[1,2,3,2,3]) should return 2. Study the methods on lists. > #

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Homework help

Hey guys I haev this homework assignment due today I don't necessarily want the answers, but need help on how to approach it/the steps i need to solve the problems Thanks # (2 Points) Write a python function howMany(item,lst) which accepts an item and a lst of items and returns the number of time

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Quoth Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... |> I think that at one time, scripting languages was something that lived |> within other programs, like Office, and couldn't be used by themselves |> without running it inside that program, and as thus

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"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tcl is an early example of a something that started as a "reusable > command language" and turned into a "real programming language" > along the way: Yes, that's why tcl is such an awful language. And it happens all the time. It's better to just star

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Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >> "Unlike mainstream component programming, scripts usually >> do not introduce new components but simply "wire" existing >> ones. Scripts can be seen as introducing behavior but no >> new state. /.../ O

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Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: > > > "Unlike mainstream component programming, scripts usually > > do not introduce new components but simply "wire" existing > > ones. Scripts can be seen as introducing behavior but no > > new state. /.../ Of course, there is nothing to stop a > >

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Fredrik Lundh wrote: > "Unlike mainstream component programming, scripts usually > do not introduce new components but simply "wire" existing > ones. Scripts can be seen as introducing behavior but no > new state. /.../ Of course, there is nothing to stop a > "scripting" langua

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Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: > In other words, what is the difference between a "scripting language" > and a "programming language". here's one useful way to look at things: "Unlike mainstream component programming, scripts usually do not introduce new components but simply "wire" exis

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Quoth Lasse_Vgsther_Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Brandon K wrote: |> Hrm...i find it demeaning to relegate Python to a scripting language |> while Visual Basic is in the "software development" section. Python so |> outdoes VB in every way shape and form. | | | In that respect I would very

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Brandon K wrote: > Hrm...i find it demeaning to relegate Python to a scripting language > while Visual Basic is in the "software development" section. Python so > outdoes VB in every way shape and form. > In that respect I would very much like to see a definition of "scripting language" as w

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