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Hello, my name is Marcus Douglas and I'm a student at College of Central Florida, I'm contacting you because this is my first year programming and I'm seriously seeking some HELP...ASAP...ThanksMarcus Douglas ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:44:56PM -0500, marcus douglas wrote: Hello, my name is Marcus Douglas and I'm a student at College of Central Florida, I'm contacting you because this is my first year programming and I'm seriously seeking some HELP...ASAP... Hello Marcus, and welcome! We hope that we can help you, but only if you ask us questions! What are you having trouble with? Please don't say everything :-) Remember, we're not here to do your work for you, and your College almost certainly has rules about plagiarism and collaboration, so please try to ask generic questions about the language rather than specific questions about homework questions. If you must ask homework questions, expect that we'll only give you round-about answers that hint at a solution. Good questions: What's a variable? Can you explain exceptions? I don't understand them. I have a for-loop, and I want to exit it early. What should I do? How do I look for an item in a list? I tried find(my_list, item) but it printed NameError. What's the best way to read a file with items separated by tabs? Here is my code. I tried running it, expecting this result, but got this different result instead. What did I do wrong? Bad questions: Help!? Here's a project I have to do for my course. Solve it for me. Urgently. Because I forgot to do my project for the last three weeks and it's due tomorrow. Here's some code. It doesn't work. Fix it for me. Good luck, and happy programming! -- Steven ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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Hi Trent, I was once wondering about the similar question, but I discovered that Python has a huge user group (stationed across the world) and here's a site that includes the local links to all the user groups around the world, South Korea is included! You can probably find help locally from there. http://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups#Korea On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Fowler, Trent fowle...@hendrix.edu wrote: Hello, Not long ago I came across the website of a professional programmer offering python tutoring services: http://www.jeffknupp.com/python-tutoring/ I have attempted to contact him because I am interested but I've been unable to get in touch. I was wondering if anyone knew of people offering similar services. I am a self-starter and highly motivated, but I live in a small town in South Korea and I don't have any friends who program. Since I also don't have a computer science background and python is my first language, I really need someone who can help me with the beginning stages. Often times when I run into a problem not only do I not know how to solve it, I don't even know how to ask the questions that will help someone else solve it. I don't want to be spoon-fed, just gently nudged and guided. I'm on a budget but I'd be willing to pay for a good teacher. Preliminary googling has turned up precious little, so I thought someone here might be able to point me in the right direction. Thanks, -Trent. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] python tutoring
Hello, Not long ago I came across the website of a professional programmer offering python tutoring services: http://www.jeffknupp.com/python-tutoring/ I have attempted to contact him because I am interested but I've been unable to get in touch. I was wondering if anyone knew of people offering similar services. I am a self-starter and highly motivated, but I live in a small town in South Korea and I don't have any friends who program. Since I also don't have a computer science background and python is my first language, I really need someone who can help me with the beginning stages. Often times when I run into a problem not only do I not know how to solve it, I don't even know how to ask the questions that will help someone else solve it. I don't want to be spoon-fed, just gently nudged and guided. I'm on a budget but I'd be willing to pay for a good teacher. Preliminary googling has turned up precious little, so I thought someone here might be able to point me in the right direction. Thanks, -Trent. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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Fowler, Trent wrote: Hello, Not long ago I came across the website of a professional programmer offering python tutoring services: http://www.jeffknupp.com/python-tutoring/ I have attempted to contact him because I am interested but I've been unable to get in touch. I was wondering if anyone knew of people offering similar services. I am a self-starter and highly motivated, but I live in a small town in South Korea and I don't have any friends who program. Since I also don't have a computer science background and python is my first language, I really need someone who can help me with the beginning stages. Often times when I run into a problem not only do I not know how to solve it, I don't even know how to ask the questions that will help someone else solve it. I don't want to be spoon-fed, just gently nudged and guided. I'm on a budget but I'd be willing to pay for a good teacher. Preliminary googling has turned up precious little, so I thought someone here might be able to point me in the right direction. Thanks, -Trent. Why not just post your questions on here? I mean, that *is* the purpose of this list. There are some very excellent tutors on here which has the advantage of not being limited to only one tutor's level of experience. Not to mention it is free. :) I would recommend reading http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html, posting in plain text and bottom or in-line posting. In general, try and reduce the amount of code to the smallest example you can. Provide Python version, operating system, code, input, expected output, actual output, and any exceptions with full trace (copy and paste the full message, not paraphrasing or retyping). Ramit This email is confidential and subject to important disclaimers and conditions including on offers for the purchase or sale of securities, accuracy and completeness of information, viruses, confidentiality, legal privilege, and legal entity disclaimers, available at http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures/email. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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Trent, You can do well with Alan's on-line pages ( http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/) and just ask questions here. The biggest thing is to pick a big enough but not too big project. Using Python as your first programming language will spoil you, though, it's a great language and covers a lot of options. Leam On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Prasad, Ramit ramit.pra...@jpmorgan.com.dmarc.invalid wrote: Fowler, Trent wrote: Hello, Not long ago I came across the website of a professional programmer offering python tutoring services: http://www.jeffknupp.com/python-tutoring/ I have attempted to contact him because I am interested but I've been unable to get in touch. I was wondering if anyone knew of people offering similar services. I am a self-starter and highly motivated, but I live in a small town in South Korea and I don't have any friends who program. Since I also don't have a computer science background and python is my first language, I really need someone who can help me with the beginning stages. Often times when I run into a problem not only do I not know how to solve it, I don't even know how to ask the questions that will help someone else solve it. I don't want to be spoon-fed, just gently nudged and guided. I'm on a budget but I'd be willing to pay for a good teacher. Preliminary googling has turned up precious little, so I thought someone here might be able to point me in the right direction. Thanks, -Trent. Why not just post your questions on here? I mean, that *is* the purpose of this list. There are some very excellent tutors on here which has the advantage of not being limited to only one tutor's level of experience. Not to mention it is free. :) I would recommend reading http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html, posting in plain text and bottom or in-line posting. In general, try and reduce the amount of code to the smallest example you can. Provide Python version, operating system, code, input, expected output, actual output, and any exceptions with full trace (copy and paste the full message, not paraphrasing or retyping). Ramit This email is confidential and subject to important disclaimers and conditions including on offers for the purchase or sale of securities, accuracy and completeness of information, viruses, confidentiality, legal privilege, and legal entity disclaimers, available at http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures/email. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- Mind on a Mission http://leamhall.blogspot.com/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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Hi, On 20 August 2013 14:22, Fowler, Trent fowle...@hendrix.edu wrote: I am a self-starter and highly motivated, but I live in a small town in South Korea and I don't have any friends who program. Since I also don't have a computer science background and python is my first language, I really need someone who can help me with the beginning stages. Often times when I run into a problem not only do I not know how to solve it, I don't even know how to ask the questions that will help someone else solve it. Want to echo Ramit's sentiments. While the people here are volunteers and do not take kindly to having their time wasted by obvious laziness or lack of effort from the side of questioners, we do like helping and teaching others Python, and also like seeing and learning from others' questions. Even basic questions can sometimes spark pretty interesting discussions that is beneficial to the wider readership and not just the original poster. As far as picking up Python: There's a lot of video tutorials on the web, including a lot of decent stuff on showmedo.com Some of it's not free and requires membership (with the free set growing and being pretty substantial in any case.) Either way the $29 annual price is hopefully cheap enough to not be an obstacle should you choose to want to see the non-free stuff: http://showmedo.com/club/joinus?smdc=pyban Good luck, Walter ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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On 20/08/13 17:23, leam hall wrote: You can do well with Alan's on-line pages (http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/) but don't use that site, its prehistoric but locked so that I can't redirect it. See my sig instead -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
