Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-12-08 Thread Edwin
On Nov 22, 2:15 am, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm only a very occasional user of vi, so I don't really know how vim > integrates with MacOS X but have you tried aquamacs > (http://aquamacs.org/)? > > -- > Arnaud I've tried it but I ended up using original (I'm sure there's a be

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-22 Thread Michele Simionato
On Nov 20, 1:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >     >> a diary manager compatible with my Emacs diary file (sometimes I >     >> don't want to open Emacs for a quick note) > >     Arnaud> You mean that you sometimes don't have emacs open? > > I am constantly amazed at work that people open a separat

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-22 Thread Ken
How about this: http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi guys, > > I'm learning Python by teaching myself, and after going through several > tutorials I feel like I've learned the basics. Since I'm not taking a > class or anything, I've

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-22 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
Edwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have to point out that I myself use Vim more than > Emacs. Not because I think it's better (I'm not a religious person) > but because it has better integration with my Mac... and actually, I > use them for different programming tasks. I'm only a very occasion

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-21 Thread Edwin
On Nov 20, 10:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >     >> I am constantly amazed at work that people open a separate emacs for >     >> each file they want to edit.  Most of them seem not to even know that >     >> find-file exists. > >     Edwin> Come on mate... it's already a bit hard to post in a n

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-20 Thread skip
>> I am constantly amazed at work that people open a separate emacs for >> each file they want to edit.  Most of them seem not to even know that >> find-file exists. Edwin> Come on mate... it's already a bit hard to post in a non-native Edwin> language. As a beginner in Python

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-20 Thread Edwin
On Nov 20, 6:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >     >> a diary manager compatible with my Emacs diary file (sometimes I >     >> don't want to open Emacs for a quick note) > >     Arnaud> You mean that you sometimes don't have emacs open? > > I am constantly amazed at work that people open a separat

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-20 Thread r0g
Edwin wrote: > On Nov 18, 6:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm learning Python by teaching myself, and after going through several >> tutorials I feel like I've learned the basics. Since I'm not taking a >> class or anything, I've been doing challenges/programs to reinforce the >

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-20 Thread skip
>> a diary manager compatible with my Emacs diary file (sometimes I >> don't want to open Emacs for a quick note) Arnaud> You mean that you sometimes don't have emacs open? I am constantly amazed at work that people open a separate emacs for each file they want to edit. Most of them

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-20 Thread Edwin
On Nov 20, 12:39 am, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Edwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > a diary manager compatible with my Emacs diary file (sometimes I don't > > want to open Emacs for a quick note) > > You mean that you sometimes don't have emacs open? > > -- > Arnaud

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-19 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
Edwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > a diary manager compatible with my Emacs diary file (sometimes I don't > want to open Emacs for a quick note) You mean that you sometimes don't have emacs open? -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-19 Thread Edwin
On Nov 18, 6:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm learning Python by teaching myself, and after going through several > tutorials I feel like I've learned the basics. Since I'm not taking a > class or anything, I've been doing challenges/programs to reinforce the > material and improv

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-19 Thread Stef Mientki
hi Ben, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I'm learning Python by teaching myself, and after going through several tutorials I feel like I've learned the basics. Since I'm not taking a class or anything, I've been doing challenges/programs to reinforce the material and improve my skills. I st

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-19 Thread Mr . SpOOn
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Philip Semanchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure why you'd need to host the Python code anywhere other than your > home computer. If you wanted to pull thousands of pages from a site like > that, you'd need to respect their robots.txt file. Don't forget to

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-19 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Nov 19, 2008, at 7:12 AM, Mr.SpOOn wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another hobby I have is tracking movie box-office receipts (where you can make interesting graphs comparing Titanic to Harry Potter or how well the various sequels do, if Pierce

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-19 Thread Mr . SpOOn
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Jeremiah Dodds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you need to do it on the extremely cheap, you can host on your own > machine on a port other than 80, make sure your router / firewall is > forwarding the port to your machine, and use dyndns (http://dyndns.com) to > gi

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-19 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Mr. SpOOn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Jeremiah Dodds > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Personally, I prefer a host that gives me root on a box (or virtual > > machine). I've had a great time with slicehost (http://slicehost.com)

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-19 Thread greg
On Nov 18, 6:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm learning Python by teaching myself, and after going through several > tutorials I feel like I've learned the basics. Since I'm not taking a > class or anything, I've been doing challenges/programs to reinforce the > material and improv

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-19 Thread Mr . SpOOn
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Jeremiah Dodds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I prefer a host that gives me root on a box (or virtual > machine). I've had a great time with slicehost (http://slicehost.com). Yes, I knew about slicehost, but it is expensive for what I need to do, that i

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-19 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Mr. SpOOn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What > requisites should have the host to run python code? > > Thanks and sorry for the meddling. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-19 Thread Mr . SpOOn
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another hobby I have is tracking movie box-office receipts > (where you can make interesting graphs comparing Titanic > to Harry Potter or how well the various sequels do, if Pierce > Brosnan saved the James Bond franchise, wh

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-18 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:39 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm learning Python by teaching myself, and after going through several > tutorials I feel like I've learned the basics. Since I'm not taking a class > or anything, I've been doing challenges/programs to reinforce the mater

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-18 Thread Scott MacDonald
What size of a project are you looking to work on? I enjoy learning in a similar way as you it seems. Recently I have been interested in data visualization problems. Maybe trying to replicate something from a website like: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ would interest you? Scott On Tue, N

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-18 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > challenges, or programs that have helped you'll learn. I'm working on the > project Euler problems, but I find that they don't really help my programming > skills; they are more math focused. Project Euler and others focus more on the so calle

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-18 Thread skip
Ben> I'm learning Python by teaching myself, ... I'm working on the Ben> project Euler problems, but I find that they don't really help my Ben> programming skills; they are more math focused. I've found quite the opposite to be the case. I've been programming in Python for quite awhi

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-18 Thread Mensanator
On Nov 18, 6:39�pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm learning Python by teaching myself, and after going through several > tutorials I feel like I've learned the basics. Since I'm not taking a > class or anything, I've been doing challenges/programs to reinforce the > material and improv

Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-18 Thread btkuhn
Hi guys, I'm learning Python by teaching myself, and after going through several tutorials I feel like I've learned the basics. Since I'm not taking a class or anything, I've been doing challenges/programs to reinforce the material and improve my skills. I started out with stuff like "Guess my