Re: [Tutor] Sharing Code Snippets
Tried it out.It's really cool.From next time on, shall try to make use of this. Thanks. :) On 11 April 2013 06:58, Amit Saha amitsaha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I am not sure if this has been shared on this list. However, to help both those seeking help and those wanting to help, may I suggest that for all of you posting your programs, how about using a service such as GitHub's Gists [1]. It allows you to post entire programs with advantages such as intact code formatting, syntax highlighting and perhaps others such as version control. I hope that's a useful suggestion. [1] https://gist.github.com/ Best, Amit. -- http://amitsaha.github.com/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- -- *Sayan Chatterjee* Dept. of Physics and Meteorology IIT Kharagpur Lal Bahadur Shastry Hall of Residence Room AB 205 Mob: +91 9874513565 blog: www.blissprofound.blogspot.com Volunteer , Padakshep www.padakshep.org ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Sharing Code Snippets
Subject: [Tutor] Sharing Code Snippets Hello everyone, I am not sure if this has been shared on this list. However, to help both those seeking help and those wanting to help, may I suggest that for all of you posting your programs, how about using a service such as GitHub's Gists [1]. It allows you to post entire programs with advantages such as intact code formatting, syntax highlighting and perhaps others such as version control. I hope that's a useful suggestion. [1] https://gist.github.com/ Hi, Is this better than e.g. http://www.pastebin.com/? I wouldn't like it if the emails contain *only* links to such sites. That way the information is lost forever if github decides to remove the code. Often these sites have expiration dates for their contents. Albert-Jan ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Sharing Code Snippets
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam fo...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [Tutor] Sharing Code Snippets Hello everyone, I am not sure if this has been shared on this list. However, to help both those seeking help and those wanting to help, may I suggest that for all of you posting your programs, how about using a service such as GitHub's Gists [1]. It allows you to post entire programs with advantages such as intact code formatting, syntax highlighting and perhaps others such as version control. I hope that's a useful suggestion. [1] https://gist.github.com/ Hi, Is this better than e.g. http://www.pastebin.com/? I wouldn't like it if the emails contain *only* links to such sites. That way the information is lost forever if github decides to remove the code. Often these sites have expiration dates for their contents. GitHub's Gists doesn't have an expiration date, since its primary purpose is not a paste bin. But yes, I understand that if GitHub decides to remove this service some day, the code is lost. -Amit. Albert-Jan -- http://amitsaha.github.com/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Sharing Code Snippets
On 11/04/13 11:28, Amit Saha wrote: Hello everyone, I am not sure if this has been shared on this list. However, to help both those seeking help and those wanting to help, may I suggest that for all of you posting your programs, how about using a service such as GitHub's Gists [1]. It allows you to post entire programs with advantages such as intact code formatting, syntax highlighting and perhaps others such as version control. Please don't. Small code snippets should be posted directly in the body of the email, not on some external website. They should be posted in PLAIN TEXT (do not use so-called rich-text, HTML formatted emails, since they destroy critical indentation and make it difficult for those using plain-text email clients to read your code). Like this: import random def coin_toss(): if random.random() 0.5: return head else: return tail It's much less work for everyone to read code snippets in the email: compare: SENDER: copy and paste code directly into email READER: read email write response versus: SENDER: open browser log in to external site copy and paste code into external site make sure code has been saved copy and paste url into email READER: read email open browser copy and paste url fix url if it has been mangled by line-wrapping read code copy and paste back to email for the response to say nothing about how it may effect those who use a screen reader. (They generally work well with email, not so well with many websites.) People may have access to their email, and be able to read and answer your question, but they may not have access to the web. Perhaps they are behind a firewall that blocks the website. For whatever reason, just because somebody is reading your email doesn't mean that they can or will follow to a website to read the important bit (the actual code). You should make it *easy* for people to answer, not harder. Code sharing sites are great for posting entire programs, but you, the reader, shouldn't be posting entire programs and expecting us to work out where the problem lies. Identify where the problem lies, and eliminate all unnecessary code. Please read this for more details: http://sscce.org/ -- Steven ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Sharing Code Snippets
Hello everyone, I am not sure if this has been shared on this list. However, to help both those seeking help and those wanting to help, may I suggest that for all of you posting your programs, how about using a service such as GitHub's Gists [1]. It allows you to post entire programs with advantages such as intact code formatting, syntax highlighting and perhaps others such as version control. I hope that's a useful suggestion. [1] https://gist.github.com/ Best, Amit. -- http://amitsaha.github.com/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
