On Jan 31, 2010, at 23:05 , John Posner wrote:
Try commenting out this statement:
self.turtle.tracer(False)
That helps on Python 2.6.4.
interesting. It seems as if the tracer property is a global one:
In [1]:t1=Turtle()
In [2]:t1.tracer()
Out[2]:1
In [3]:t1.tracer(False)
In [4]:t1.t
kirby urner wrote:
More to the point is wanting to render pre-existing well-established
mathematics in a more accessible, hands-on, and intelligible
format, without losing any backward compatibility.
List comprehensions *illuminate* ideas about functions, do not
detract from them. Creating a l
Brian Blais wrote:
On Jan 31, 2010, at 23:05 , John Posner wrote:
Try commenting out this statement:
self.turtle.tracer(False)
That helps on Python 2.6.4.
interesting. It seems as if the tracer property is a global one:
Actually, the tracer method that does the work is part of the
T
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Brian Blais wro
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> I don't see where you've defined a Turtle class to instantiate sir.
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> Turtle is given in turtle.py. I should have subclassed it, but I was being
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> thanks for the fast replies!
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No obvious need to subclass.
kirby urner wrote:
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:05 AM, michel paul wrote:
<< SNIP >>
Again, one of the things I truly love about Sage is that at its core, it is
pure Python. I was delighted with something one of my FST students said. I
had been using Sage as my blackboard in class, and th
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:45 PM, David MacQuigg
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> kirby urner wrote:
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> I'm putting together a proposal for a freshman-level course in CS.
> Currently we have three courses - one for CS majors (Java), one for
> computer engineers (C), and one for physics and astronomy (C). Matla
Regarding conformity. When we moved the introductory course (used by
both CS majors and non-majors) to Python, one of the criteria was to
ensure as little changes to the subsequent curricula as possible. This
obviously made the change much more palatable to the faculty. Thus the
following course, C
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let everyone know that the cool idea of having virtual
posters on video at PyCon to encourage and recognize participation by
students and teachers has proven to be a non-starter.
We do have 17 very interesting live posters for PyCon (see
http://us.pycon.org/2010
