[python-uk] Dojo at PyconUK

2011-09-09 Thread Nicholas Tollervey
Hi Folks, In case you haven't realised, it'll be Pycon UK in just over a fortnight's time. It's going to be great fun and the more the merrier so don't hesitate to book! (see: http://pyconuk.org) One of the activities to take place at this year's event will be a London-style code dojo. For tha

Re: [python-uk] Dojo at PyconUK

2011-09-09 Thread Tim Golden
On 09/09/2011 12:04, Nicholas Tollervey wrote: Here's one from me to kick things off: Roman Numeral Calculator - e.g. XI - III = IIX (Apparently, it's not as easy as you'd think. Parsing / converting between Roman numerals / numeric values apparently has some interesting "weird" rules to take in

Re: [python-uk] Dojo at PyconUK

2011-09-09 Thread John Pinner
On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden wrote: > On 09/09/2011 12:04, Nicholas Tollervey wrote: >> >> Here's one from me to kick things off: >> >> Roman Numeral Calculator - e.g. XI - III = IIX (Apparently, it's not >> as easy as you'd think. Parsing / converting between Roman numerals / >> numeric

Re: [python-uk] Dojo at PyconUK

2011-09-09 Thread Tim Golden
On 09/09/2011 13:23, John Pinner wrote: On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden wrote: Maybe Coventry will be his lucky place? So we have to send him to Coventry so he can get it? You surely can't have been the first person to make that comment in the context of this year's PyConUK ?? TJG __

Re: [python-uk] Dojo at PyconUK

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Anderson
> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 13:23:18 +0100 > From: funth...@gmail.com > To: python-uk@python.org > Subject: Re: [python-uk] Dojo at PyconUK > > On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden wrote: > > On 09/09/2011 12:04, Nicholas Tollervey wrote: > >> > >> Here's one from me to kick things off: > >> > >>

Re: [python-uk] Dojo at PyconUK

2011-09-09 Thread Zeth
On 9 September 2011 12:04, Nicholas Tollervey wrote: > Roman Numeral Calculator - e.g. XI - III = IIX (Apparently, it's not as easy > as you'd think. Parsing / converting between Roman numerals / numeric values > apparently has some interesting "weird" rules to take into account). :-) Would it

Re: [python-uk] Dojo at PyconUK

2011-09-09 Thread Nicholas Tollervey
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 13:23 +0100, John Pinner wrote: > On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden wrote: > > On 09/09/2011 12:04, Nicholas Tollervey wrote: > >> > >> Here's one from me to kick things off: > >> > >> Roman Numeral Calculator - e.g. XI - III = IIX (Apparently, it's not > >> as easy as yo

Re: [python-uk] PyCon UK 2011 - 24th to 25th September 2011 - Conference Announcement and Booking details

2011-09-09 Thread Zeth
On 25/07/11 11:52, Zeth wrote: The UK's official Python conference returns. It is aimed at everyone in the Python community, of all skill levels, from beginners to core developers. The conference will be held on the 24th to 25th September 2011, in the TechnoCentre Coventry (CV1 2TT). The confer

Re: [python-uk] Dojo at PyconUK

2011-09-09 Thread Tim Golden
On 09/09/2011 14:08, Nicholas Tollervey wrote: A variation on this theme is a "Hunt the Wumpus" clone. But then Tim would have to admit to *his* dojo "testing" secret. Well *someone* liked it: http://themonkeyproject.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/hunt-the-wumpus/ TJG

Re: [python-uk] Dojo at PyconUK

2011-09-09 Thread Stestagg
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Nicholas Tollervey wrote: > On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 13:23 +0100, John Pinner wrote: >> On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden wrote: >> > On 09/09/2011 12:04, Nicholas Tollervey wrote: >> >> >> >> Here's one from me to kick things off: >> >> >> >> Roman Numeral Calcul

Re: [python-uk] Dojo at PyconUK

2011-09-09 Thread John Pinner
Hi, On 9 September 2011 15:10, Stestagg wrote: > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Nicholas Tollervey wrote: >> On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 13:23 +0100, John Pinner wrote: >>> On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden wrote: >>> > On 09/09/2011 12:04, Nicholas Tollervey wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Here's one from

Re: [python-uk] Dojo at PyconUK

2011-09-09 Thread René Dudfield
Ancient number systems? There's some good write ups of other old number systems here...http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/topics/num-sys.html ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk