Re: Homework help requested, thanks to everyone.

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

RE: Homework help requested, thanks to everyone.

John, have you taken a look at pyglet? It's an alternative to pygame and I found it pretty slick once I got the hang of it. There is a development version that's compatible with python 3 and I've never had a bug with it. It wraps OpenGL itself so there are no additional dependencies. // jo

Re: Homework help requested, thanks to everyone.

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

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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

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

Not to open Pandora's box or anything, but are you aware of the Roguelike community (subculture?) (cult?) of game development? Rogue was an old "text-based" role playing game for Unix, "text-based" in the sense that it used the console as a 2D map and ASCII characters as graphics. There has be

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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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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On Apr 1, 11:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 1, 12:17 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I don't necessarily want the answers, but need help on how to approach > > > it/the steps i need to solve the problems > > > What parts are you havin

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On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 1, 12:17 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>> I don't necessarily want the answers, but need help on how to >>> approach >>> it/the steps i need to solve the problems >> >> What parts are

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On Apr 1, 12:17 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I don't necessarily want the answers, but need help on how to approach > > it/the steps i need to solve the problems > > What parts are you having difficulty with? Are there some course > materials and

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I don't necessarily want the answers, but need help on how to approach > it/the steps i need to solve the problems What parts are you having difficulty with? Are there some course materials and have you read them yet? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-