Re: [Edu-sig] From Kirby's corner...

2006-03-07 Thread kirby urner
Digital, actually is cold. And children are too sensitive not to perceive it as cold. Yes, but they love cartoons. Anything we can actually pet around? I'm all for that too. Not either/or. I'd feel better about it if I knew what problem, exactly, we were solving. We're trying to

Re: [Edu-sig] From Kirby's corner...

2006-03-07 Thread kirby urner
For my taste, you are getting your rap down way too well. Wait'll you hear the music that goes with it! (I haven't yet either). ;-D For the record - I found it necessary to walk out of - yes - a Monty Python movie. I had a lot of trouble with 'The Meaning of Life' when I saw it. I was

[Edu-sig] ANN: 2006 Python training courses, San Francisco

2006-03-07 Thread w chun
Dear Edu-Sig, Below is the announcement we made earlier today regarding our intro and advanced Python courses for the remainder of 2006. There are significant discounts for students/teachers. Please snip this msg and forward the attachment below to anyone whom you think would be interested or

[Edu-sig] A Quick Puzzle

2006-03-07 Thread kirby urner
Here's a quick puzzle, that'd make a good source of Python programs, or programs in other languages: Assume dogs live at 7 times the rate of a man, such that when a man ages but one year, the dog ages by 7. Now assume a dog is born later than you, and you get her as a puppy (feel free to mess

[Edu-sig] New Python website

2006-03-07 Thread kirby urner
I see the long-planned reskinning of the Python website is finally going down. edu-sig is as good a place as any to check out the handsome new template: http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/edu-sig/ I'm glad I had the foresite to put a direct link to this archive at the very bottom of

Re: [Edu-sig] A Quick Puzzle

2006-03-07 Thread Michael Tobis
# I love Python! import datetime# batteries included! me = datetime.date(1954,9,1) dog = datetime.date(2006,3,7) print me + (7 * (dog - me)/6) # mt On 3/7/06, kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a quick puzzle, that'd make a good source of Python programs, or programs in other

Re: [Edu-sig] A Quick Puzzle

2006-03-07 Thread Tim Peters
[kirby urner] Here's a quick puzzle, that'd make a good source of Python programs, or programs in other languages: Assume dogs live at 7 times the rate of a man, such that when a man ages but one year, the dog ages by 7 That vaguely reminds me of a puzzle I enjoyed much as a kid: on

Re: [Edu-sig] A Quick Puzzle

2006-03-07 Thread kirby urner
Yeah, that looks like the Jon Bunce formula. Packing lap top. Hoping to claim $5 (I owe you a beer). Kirby On 3/7/06, Michael Tobis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # I love Python! import datetime# batteries included! me = datetime.date(1954,9,1) dog = datetime.date(2006,3,7) print me +

Re: [Edu-sig] A Quick Puzzle

2006-03-07 Thread kirby urner
Michael -- Here's a cut and paste from Pauling House (boyhood home of Portland *other* famous Linus). IDLE 1.1.1 import datetime me = datetime.date(1952,12,17) dog = datetime.date(1999, 1,2) print me + (7 * (dog - me)/6) 2006-09-04 This is the real answer the guy wanted. Mission

Re: [Edu-sig] A Quick Puzzle

2006-03-07 Thread Scott David Daniels
Tim Peters wrote: That vaguely reminds me of a puzzle I enjoyed much as a kid: on what day will you be half as old as your father? a third as old? a quarter as old? three-quarters as old? nine-tenths as old? ... It's a good way of showing that x/(x+d), for fixed positive d, approaches 1

Re: [Edu-sig] A Quick Puzzle

2006-03-07 Thread kirby urner
This is the real answer the guy wanted. Mission accomplished. No offer of $5 though. Kirby Still here at Pauling House (near 39th Hawthorne, SE Portland). The dog owner remembered about the $5. I said I'm narrating the story in quasi real time, that his giving me a fiver would enter the