Lest I be accused of introducing a gender bias in scouting, in looking for "Waldo" and not "Wendy": in my defense looking for Waldo could be interesting for any gender and besides, neither method is really the point as it's an inheritance tree diagram that's sought (per docstring).
Elsewhere in my on-line postings you'll see I'm expecting more innovation from girl scouts actually, but for anthropological reasons we needn't tediously reiterate here. Scouting needn't be gender-segregated in the first place, in principle, lets be clear. Nothing in the definition of "scout" implies gender. If anything, the real bias in "scouting" is towards "youth" (scouts are young) and I'm not especially fighting that bias (already here when I got here).[0] A "scout leader" may be on the older side and you may have your history in scouting on your resume no matter how old you are. Another Python puzzle I want to see more (that'd work in other languages) of is where you nest data structures very deeply in an insane one-off sort of way, and challenge the reader to build a reference to it, whatever "it" is, perhaps a string literal, a buried "X". Writing a program to randomly generate such arbitrarily nested structures, along with a solution, as a pair, would be a next challenge to tackle. Such puzzles may already be out there. I once shared a residence with a staff writer for Games magazine and was astonished by the breadth of puzzle in print (I always liked making mazing, sometimes solving them). I'm less in the loop than in those days, in that regard. I was a quick train ride from Manhattan back them, in the lower rent Jersey City, right off Journal Square behind the Lowe's.[1] Kirby [0] I once participated in swimming pool construction project in Palestinian Ramallah, where the locals joining us were referred to as "scouts" in English, which got as all picturing youngsters, but they were more college through adult, no upper limit on age really. A different translation would have less nurtured our unrealistic expectations (the work was too hard for kids, and at sixteen I was probably the youngest in the entire camp). Anyway, my point is the connotation of "scout" in English, though in a military sense a scout is just anyone "scouting ahead" or "keeping a lookout" or whatever, very generic role and not always played by youngsters. Civilians also "scout" i.e. to be "scouting ahead" needn't imply the theater has been militarized, so I do not regard "scouting" as ipso facto "paramilitary", though I fully recognize it has gone in that direction a lot already in some parts of the world. Long discussion, maybe on an anthro list. [1] this autobio is partly for the benefit of math-teach readers where we've been talking about my career as a high school math teacher in Jersey City (a short career, but not because I hated the job, on the contrary one of the best ever). On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:39 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > """ > More ActiveMath... by K. Urner (c) MIT License > 4dsolutions.net/ocn : Oregon Curriculum Network > > Merit badge activity: study the Method Resolution Order > defined below and make a drawing of the inheritance tree, > with object at the top and ScoutManual at the bottom. > """ > > class Cove: > def wheresWaldo(self): > return "Waldo is in a Cove" > > class Island: > def wheresWaldo(self): > return "Waldo is on an Island" >
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