On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
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> Drunkard's Walk.
>
If our think tank (isepp.org) could have gotten permission, we'd have
used that Monopoly guy (looks kinda like Planters peanut guy) randomly
walking on like some chess board with a lamp post (reminds of Narni
On Nov 29, 2009, at 17:51 , Edward Cherlin wrote:
If you use the Python-programmable tile in Turtle Art in Sugar, or
Smalltalk in the Turtle Graphics in Etoys, it's even better.
I'll have to check this out.
sequences, where I can use a conditional to stop when the turtle would
go off the scr
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM, kirby urner wrote:
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> print "K Module"
> print "K in tetravolumes: ", kvol * syn3
> print "Rh Triacontrahedron: ", 120 * kvol * syn3
>
I'm now comparing output from this script on Ubuntu netbook Python 2.6
and WinXP HP desktop Python 3.1.
Here's Pyth
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:34, Brian Blais wrote:
> Hello,
> I was just playing with the turtle module, and thought it was an interesting
> way to augment the introduction to python (I teach college students, who
> haven't had any programming). It's a great way to introduce functions,
> for-loops
Hello,
I was just playing with the turtle module, and thought it was an
interesting way to augment the introduction to python (I teach
college students, who haven't had any programming). It's a great way
to introduce functions, for-loops, and general program structures.
After a bit of pl
I'm including the script below, using Python as a calculator, showing
off the relatively new Decimal type, mainly to solicit feedback as to
whether I'm doing anything really dorky (or that could easily be
improved dramatically if I just knew what I was doing more).
I don't use this type every day.
pybotwar is a fun and educational game where players
write computer programs to control simulated robots.
http://pybotwar.googlecode.com/
pybotwar uses pybox2d for the physical simulation.
It can be run in text-only mode -- useful for longer
tournaments -- or use pyqt or pygame for a graphical
