On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:43 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
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What does the robot look like I wonder. Open source? API? Yes, I
should Google, but I'm trying to track a Django in the real world
workshop at the moment. Pycon. Packed room. They're showing the
slide
Hey excellent questions Gary, expect others will pipe up.
What I see as a challenge with Python is precisely its liberal nature,
as coders from earlier generations, cutting teeth in BASIC or FORTRAN,
find there's sufficient procedural syntax to sort of barrel ahead with
the same kind of thinking,
Gary Pajer wrote:
... Just this past weekend I was wondering where I could find such things,
that is, help at learning good ways to structure a python program (for
generic python, not specifically Django), written for the non-programmer
scientist/educator. When I write my programs I always
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:34 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey excellent questions Gary, expect others will pipe up.
What I see as a challenge with Python is precisely its liberal nature,
as coders from earlier generations, cutting teeth in BASIC or FORTRAN,
find there's
There's the design patterns literature, sometimes fun to just eyeball
so you get used to seeing patterns, even if different from the ones
described.
In some of my venues, there's a rule against any one person getting to
code a whole project i.e. deliberate management strategy to force a
minimum
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:05 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm wondering what others on this list think of this non-standard use
of teaching when talking about programming a computer.
The authors say we're teaching the computer
I have a very simple take on this. It is an