Another version, using a generator of Fibonacci triples...
Encapsulating a discovery -- not a proof.
By David Koski (Python by K. Urner)
Failure at around 37th power is due to floating point limitations.
import unittest
def fib_triple(a=0, b=1):
from anyproject import fib_triple
a little lamb
wow, we have a grown up iterator!
m
a
r
y
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On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Nicholas H.Tollervey nt...@ntoll.orgwrote:
Were the Bank of America people STEM ambassadors or would that be
more like a parent who wanted to volunteer, and had some
background in technology?
There are thousands of STEM ambassadors in the UK. Basically,
have word-wrapped during transport.
Perform standard maintenance before first use.
Kirby
Some infrastructure for working with Vectors and Edges, including
an xyplotter generator and axes maker.
(c) By Kirby Urner, Sept 13, 2006, 2013, MIT License
# no warranty, as is (feel free to bring up
A Visual Python animation showing a triangular page going back and
forth between triangular book covers laid flat against the XY plane.
The page tip traces a semi-circle (not displayed but certainly computed).
As a result of two triangular flaps (cover and page) at some dihedral
angle, a
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Nicholas H.Tollervey nt...@ntoll.orgwrote:
Hi,
Here's a write-up (one of many, but it's mine) about the PyconUK 2013
education track for teachers, students and developers that happened
last weekend:
http://ntoll.org/article/pyconuk2013-roundup
It was a
Interesting resources thank you.
Dr. Dobbs gets to write about Python under the heading of JVM Languages.
Interesting. Sure, that's right.
Jython is a Python.
Kirby
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Vernon D. Cole vernondc...@gmail.comwrote:
Given that my first useful programs were
Good recap of a lot of my old themes, repackaged for this flagship
conference.
I was an invited representative of the greater Python community helping
Djangonauts (Djangstas -- my preferred, if we're doing nicks) pick up some
vibes from the Great Hall is it were (Vaults of Parnassus or whatever).
I had a good workshop in Chicago.
Two of the attenders worked assiduously on developing a native Linux
installer for Visual Python (the latest) that wouldn't depend on Wine. The
one guy brought his junky laptop (his other computer) and it overheated
compiling all of wx (the latest Vpython
My schtick involves a mythical Python5, an add-on to my current courses,
wherein we adopt a Model-View-Controller approach, as start with really
simple views (i.e. ASCII art), knowing in advance the visualizations will
be upgraded, using both render-time and real-time pipelines. The Model is
Actually Dr. DiNucci is right in a subtle way: zip( ) is not a function,
it's a type, and primitive types are callables in Python. I should
follow-up on that point on edu-sig (too technical for math-teach). Thanks
Dave. zip objects, like ranges, enumerations, other sequential things, are
For those of you still scratching your heads, there's a version issue here
as well.
Since I teach 3.x for a living, these little difference are in my face all
the time.
More from FaceBook:
Steve Holden:
Zip() not a function?
Where on Earth did you get that strange story from?
It may return
I make a big deal out of this Python fragment
in a Math Forum essay I recently posted:
result = zip({planet, comet, sun},
{paramecium, duck, aardvark},
{banana, apple, orange})
list(result)
[('planet', 'aardvark', 'orange'),
('sun', 'paramecium', 'apple'),
('comet', 'duck',
Here's some literary criticism regarding my little essay above:
Today's reading is finding relatively less of a direct Athena-Apollo
tension as that's not her Python he killed. She had a twisted
son (he'd have to be, given her virginity -- at least the story is
twisted) who looked like serpent
At my upcoming workshop in Chicago I'm planning to
stress the relevance of theater as *the* extended metaphor
where scripting and browsing is concerned. JavaScript
pulls the the strings of our DOM, the scenery or structure
of the web page stage, while Servers are even further
behind the scenes
Euler volume, modified by Gerald de Jong
http://www.grunch.net/synergetics/quadvols.html
Kirby Urner (c) MIT License
from math import sqrt, hypot
class Tetrahedron:
Takes six edges of tetrahedron with faces
(a,b,d)(b,c,e)(c,a,f)(d,e,f) -- returns volume
if ivm and xyz
Plain vanilla Fibonacci Numbers but with the ability
to reset the initial pair mid-course
Kirby Urner (c) MIT License
import unittest
def fibs(a, b):
while True:
d = yield a # send to a, b
if d:
a, b = d[0], d[1]
continue
b, a = a + b, b
Here's a job opening at O'Reilly like the one I started in, and which
eventually became full time.
http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=q319VfwSjvi=oGQLXfwY,job
I'm spreading news of it on lists where I already know we have talented
people who might be looking for something part
I just posted these two things to Chipy, the Chicago Users Group, in hopes
of maybe attracting some Pythonistas to my tutorial, Sept 2.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/chicago/2013-August/011323.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/chicago/2013-August/011324.html
One of the goals of the DSF
There's some playfulness here, with duck typing, in that the parameter
name suggests a set, yet we pass a string, then work with listifications.
This allows more types of input, yet the output should always be: a dict,
a mapping, a permutation. Running it now, I get:
P1: {'1': '6', '0':
One of my favorite topics in mathematics which I think is accessible to
kids, is that of permutations treated as objects, and made to compose.
To this I affix the notion of substitution code or club house code, one
of the simplest ciphers imaginable, and we're off, studying Group Theory.
Then add
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Andre Roberge andre.robe...@gmail.comwrote:
There seems to be a trend on various websites to award users badges to
keep track of progress. Other than the rationale that everyone is doing
it this days so it must serve a purpose, do any of the edu-sig readers
have
This is an amazing resource / web site. I just wandered around in it
awhile, blundering about.
It's wonderful that you took the time to make so much of your classroom
material world readable.
Kirby
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 7:36 AM, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com wrote:
We played around
More promulgating of:
'Mathematics for the Digital Age and Programming in Python'
on the math-teach / Math Forum list (hosted by Drexel U)
where I'm a regular poster:
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2574824
I put it on a syllabus of only three books, suggesting a kernel
or core
I'd gladly take it back however I'm also quite happy to see a wider
circle of maintainers. I don't need to hog all the fame and glory.
;-D
There's a website redesign going on right now, as you know, so the
implications of page maintenance will change from what they were
(presumably less
I see the edu-sig page as being primarily a front page for this email
list, where the subscribers have updated more current information.
The text of the page should encourage asked questions of our
subscribers versus always trying to remain comprehensive about every
cool tool, toy, book or
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def g(x): return x + 2
class Hijack:
def __init__(self, f):
self.f = g
def __call__(self, x):
return self.f(x)
@Hijack
def f(x): return x * x
print(f(10))
print(f(100))
The code above shows a decorator, Hijack, that takes a function g from the
global namespace and
from fractions import Fraction as R
def choose(n, k):
chosen / adapted from:
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t502438-combination-function-in-python.html
ntok = 1
for t in range(min(k, n-k)):
ntok = ntok*(n-t)//(t+1)
return ntok
def Bernoulli():
I'm sure this could be improved upon and/or is discussed more eloquently
elsewhere. I'm inviting links, comments.
I recall our own discussion here on edu-sig where we played with
@D
def f(x):...
as taking a Derivative of f. Guido didn't think it was such a great idea
as I recall.
from fractions import Fraction as R
def Gregory():
Gregory Coefficients (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler-Mascheroni_constant)
1/2, 1/12, 1/24, 19/720, 3/160, 863/60480...
using fraction module to keep it rational.
G = [R(-1,1)]
def Sum(n):
total = R(0,1)
** **
So I copied the file to the desktop and test it from there but that failed
too. *I eventually copied the file to the python directory (c:\python33)
and that worked*.
Hi Karine --
This sounds like an issue with sys.path, a list of directories to search
when import is used.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Rakesh Barve rba...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I am not an expert but one recent development is dynamic languages such as
Python can now be interpreted and run inside browsers, making it possible
to do the below kind of stuff as well as execution with no need of
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net wrote:
Lee, if you are looking for a classroom teacher to try out pyguin in
the classroom, sign me up! I'll have it installed in my lab on
Thursday, when I return, in any case. It rocks!
Now a question: how difficult would it be
Greetings from Pycon 2013 in Santa Clara.
We enjoyed a day long Education Summit on Pi Day today (3/14) an pun
(py vs pi) that did not go unnoticed.
The program featured a keynote by Walter Bender, founder of Sugarlabs,
followed by an unconference of three consecutive sessions and seven
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:56 AM, John Posner jjpos...@optimum.net wrote:
At the nytimes.com site, I came across a reference to this Python course
in the comments to Thomas Friedman's latest column:
http://blog.topfreeclasses.com/2012/12/an-introduction-to-interactive-python.html
Does anyone have
,
that was not it. (I did watch the entire video) What I am looking for was
something written by a fourth-year University student about a final year
project.
André
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:05 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Andre --
My clearest memory along those
Hi Andre --
My clearest memory along those lines was it was a talking head maybe
Jeff Elkner himself in that student-made video about the virtues of
Python.
You may recall the video: there's an old hippie dad, a parody of a
student's father. It's a kind of love story, where this girl show
this
background in GUI stuff for all I know,
this is not CS0 or CS1 in that we get people with decades of coding
experience, just wanting to pick up Python as another tool in their
tool belt).
Kirby Urner
O'Reilly School of Technology
Note that Python-the-language stays reasonably small in that GUI stuff
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:31 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
Your idea to do fractions, to build them from the inside out, is a
good idea. You could start with Guido's record-simple GCD function,
for Euclid's Algorithm, then gradually build out with __add__, __mul__
etc
Hi Dan --
You ask a lot of good questions.
I don't think it's required that you know Python cold (i.e. really
well) before sharing it with your daughter or others. They see you're
tackling something and getting better at it bit by bit, like sailing,
playing the guitar, and that's inspiring.
If
I think Kython is a wonderful idea, and corresponding trainers in any
Unicode language.
Ideally there'd be a Kython - Python translator, even at the source code
level, that only swapped in the Python keywords, builtins, special names,
Standard Library names.
This looks like a round trip exercise
Hi Murat --
I presume you know that Python 3 source code may use any Unicode strings
for names, including variables, functions, classes and so on.
That leaves 33 keywords in English.
import keyword
keyword.kwlist
You can write a script that simply catalogs synonyms for builtins.
басуу =
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Dan Peirce peirce@gmail.com wrote:
I came across an old story at
http://onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2000/10/04/pythonnews.html
about Teaching Math with Python.
Unfortunately the links are now broken. Is there more current
information available?
Any online
These are excellent questions Kevin.
Arthur was an extraordinarily bright and committed guy and took his
winnings in financial services to fund a long sabbatical studying what
really most interested him: projective geometry. He really admired
Klein.
Those mining the archives may think Arthur
http://projects.apache.org/ (FYI)
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From: Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com
Date: Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:03 PM
Subject: Time to make a noise ...
We'd appreciate your help in creating a little more buzz about ApacheCon NA.
It turns out that another major
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Andre Roberge andre.robe...@gmail.comwrote:
snip
I took that as a joke; very few people invent new words, so we are all
plagiarizing in that sense.
Yes, I see it that way too. The individual words we use do not originate
with us.
Plagiarism is less about
functions, a metabolism.
Hence the need for a self.stomach and snake.eat( ) and snake.poop()
methods -- self.stomach a FIFO column.
Kirby
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Date: Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: thoughts about your paper
I think an obvious way to describe the use of locks when
multi-threading is to use the coffee shop model (same as airplane
model), where there's only one bathroom / toilet. Or maybe there are
two but each takes its own key. Or mulitple unisex (still for one
passenger only) like portable ones at
On my radar...
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From: Randy Baxley randy7771...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM
Subject: [Chicago] Dr Chuck MOOC
To: chic...@python.org
http://online.dr-chuck.com/index.php
Dr. Chuck is a fun professor and I have already worked through his
the digits in binary. In the original form the
generator never terminates. Somewhere along the line an edit was made to
try to get it to terminate at n digits. Probably to make calling it easy to
call as in list(pi_digits(n)).
- Michel
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Kirby Urner kur
I'm taking the liberty of reposting this generator supplied by Pythonista
michel paul on Math Future. He's not the author though.
def pi_digits(n):
k, a, b, a1, b1 = 2, 4, 1, 12, 4
while n0:
p, q, k = k*k, 2*k+1, k+1
a, b, a1, b1 = a1, b1, p*a+q*a1, p*b+q*b1
d,
wonder?
David H
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From: Kirby Urner kur...@oreillyschool.com
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 5:33pm
To: edu-sig@python.org
Subject: [Edu-sig] generate digits of pi
I'm taking the liberty of reposting this generator supplied by
Pythonista michel paul on Math
Got it, no wrong digits just not always exactly the number you asked for.
This happens often in 3.2 as well:
exp = ((n,len(list(pi_digits(n for n in range(1)) # (number
asked, number got)
exp2 = ((a,b) for a,b in exp if a != b) # filter on not same
for i in range(10):
The official docs for Python are not really designed for people new to
programming but for people who have already experienced programming and now
want to add Python as an additional language. The tutorial does not take
the time to slow down and start from the beginning.
John Zelle's book (and
Quantum Field Theory:
Skeletal draft of objects
Rich Data Series
To help with studies, students learning Python might bend its
notation to help them wrap their heads around this and that.
Here's a module I've been working on after listening to
Sean Carroll's ISEPP lecture in Portland last night
Proposal to upgrade:
http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/edu-sig/
Probably it's time to mention some new projects. Examples:
http://www.pythontutor.com/
http://www.skulpt.org/
http://www.raspberrypi.org/
http://arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Python
That's not meant to be an
In related news (noting RurPL is continuing its advance)...
the Visual Python group (VPython.org) have been tackling in earnest
the challenge of seamlessly integrating their 3D mini-API to an OpenGL
experience within wxPython, the Python adapter for the wx GUI toolkit.
I simply subscribe to that
Greeting Jackie:
Python's IDLE talks to itself over 127.0.0.1 and sometimes antivirus
software can police that circuit.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8588025/unable-to-load-idle-python-gui
I do suggest an experiment where you shut off any antivirus / policing
software you can think of,
Jackie's problem was fixed with the -n switch.
I've used Python 3.x extensively with Win7 since 3.x became available, also XP.
Python is used with Windows all over the place. Windows is a flagship
platform for Python.
There can be confusions these days over whether one should run a 64
bit or
I'm shortly to give a 20 min talk, one of two, at our monthly Python
Users Group this evening.
Usually we meet at Urban Airship but today we've moved to a new
location, I think maybe just for this month but I'm not sure.
Michelle Rowley, PSF member, is our most visible / public leader and
she
I hope you stick around Thomas. I'm one of the old timers here but
not a list owner or moderator.
My initial recruitment into Python was through my search for ways to
do 3D (spatial) geometry in cool ways + Guido's on-line CP4E essay.
The web was just getting going and there was a paucity of
I really like the traffic on edu-sig as I sense the whirl-winds from
here. Nice overlook.
True story: this summer I did another Martian Math class, a short fun
experience for self selected mid-teens with a penchant for math and
things academic, so there by choice, on a bright summer's day, but
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:18 AM, michel paul mpaul...@gmail.com wrote:
Beautiful!
Many functions are irreversible, tiz true.
digested (chewed (toasted ( m ) ) ) -- encrypted
Good luck getting the plaintext back out again. Talk about lossy compression.
Kirby
Then eating a piece of toast
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:00 AM, gerry lowry +1 705 429-7550 wasaga
beach ontario canada gerry.lo...@abilitybusinesscomputerservices.com
wrote:
Hello Kirby, i took a very brief look at your
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2012/10/dot-notation-again.html.
There does not appear to be any way to
)
Kirby
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:21 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Still going.
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7909175
Ada Day posting:
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Still going.
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7909175
Ada Day posting:
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From: kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Diversity] How will [] free software be improved by being
developed by a bl
I've accepted the e-Vite already and put it through to my boss to ask the
dean if there might be budget to send me as a rep from my school, vs. me
digging into after taxes earnings. We shall see (big wheels turns slowly).
I just hope we get it sorted out soon enough to not miss a seat. I know
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:48 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone with experience in teaching
Processing to this age group, and anyone with any thoughts on the topic.
Thanks,
Andy Judkis
Academy of Allied Health and Science
Neptune, NJ
I
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone with experience in teaching
Processing to this age group, and anyone with any thoughts on the topic.
Thanks,
Andy Judkis
Academy of Allied Health and Science
Neptune, NJ
I probably shouldn't be answering this as I don't have the Processing
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Nicholas H.Tollervey nt...@ntoll.org wrote:
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Hi Folks,
If you're interested, there's a video of yesterday evening's Google
hangout meeting where I get to talk to a bunch of teachers (and even
a couple of
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Vern Ceder vce...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
Also, I've developed a basic statement of the topics we'll be covering:
As I see it there are the three core issues that most impact Python
education today: engagement, curriculum and teaching. So I'm proposing that
The way I articulate my own position these days is that to learn
mathematics the way it's needed in STEM, you need at least one
computer language.**
Oops, forgot my little footnote:
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7872776
Kirby
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I've again been teaching teens, no my usual practice these days, but a
fun variation on the theme.
OK, I finished this one week gig. Here's a write-up, though mixed
with the flotsam and jetsam of life:
http
/2012, at 14:13, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:31 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I've again been teaching teens, no my usual practice these days, but a
fun variation on the theme.
OK, I finished this one week gig. Here's a write-up, though
I've again been teaching teens, no my usual practice these days, but a
fun variation on the theme.
Saturday Academy kids are self selected and tend not to have ego
problems around whether they're smart enough or whatever it takes.
The all believe they have the right stuff ultimately.
The
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:10 PM, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com wrote:
I blogged about Khan Academy recently. If you've seen my post, you may want
to revisit it as I've been updating it over the last few weeks. I've been
getting a lot of email queries about SmartBoarding and ScreenCasting
I've been to a number of OSCONs in my day, this being the 2nd wherein
a participated behind the scenes on the talks selection committee, a
pretty big commitment actually. I've also been a speaker, which is
pressure of a different kind.
OSCON is like a weather sensing device, very sensitive, but
I've been able to make RaspberryPi smoothly play FullHD video, here is
the screenshot -
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-yd7QUT3ujlQ/T-2QzuE5POI/CGs/_JeF_q3YAzQ/s1024/P1010060.JPG
Kirby
Way cool. Looks like 'Bugs Life' on screen maybe.
We figured out how to modify
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Nicholas H.Tollervey nt...@ntoll.org wrote:
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Hi,
I'm a former teacher currently working as a Python developer and I've
stepped up to help organise the Education track at this year's
PyconUK (happening in
courtesy of @thekirbster
5m Kirby Urner Kirby Urner @thekirbster
@holdenweb here's the blog post, w pix
http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2012/07/from-open-bastion.html
Kirby
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Vern and I have been chatting off list about his plans for an
Education Room (ER? -- name collision) at Pycon 2013 (US).
I've been thinking of exhibits, independently of the poster space,
giving a sense of Python's span, as well has history, vis-a-vis the
education systems.
We've talked about
Re: http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Learning-Python-Decorators-ebook/dp/B006ZHJSIM
I got the Kindle book on Python decorators.
Quite inexpensive.
I didn't give it my highest rating though, for two reasons:
(a) there's some representing that an exhaustive treatment of the
function arguments and
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Matt Harrison
matthewharri...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Kirby-
Author of said book replying :)
Wow fast. I wondered if you'd spider over here for a chat (smile),
sensing vibrations in the Web.
I didn't give it my highest rating though, for two reasons:
(a)
Portland's Python community is experimenting with some more
gender-specific Python training, geared for noobs:
http://www.meetup.com/pdxpython/events/66193362/
Michelle Rowley, newly sired into the PSF (my nominee), has a full
house already and a 2nd such event is in the planning stage.
Over on
Steve Holden was asking on the PSF members list (some overlap with
here) for other ways to diagram / teach about namespaces in his
slides.
This is the slide show he's talking about.
http://holdenweb.com/files/PythonIntro.pdf (namespaces = like clouds)
After some back and forth, another visual:
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Carl Cerecke c...@free.org.nz wrote:
I'm thinking of becoming a mentor at a local Computer
Clubhouse http://www.computerclubhouse.org/. In particular, there are some
kids there who are quite keen to learn to make their own games, but none of
the current mentors
Way cool Alan. I helped spread the word here:
http://www.facebook.com/oreillyschool
What to do with Python? How to integrate it with STEM?
Lots of ways to go, including with VPython (vpython.org).
Kirby
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Alan O'Donohoe a...@odonohoe.org.ukwrote:
We held a
A common error (not too serious) that I see in
beginning Python (and no doubt other languages,
but Python is the one I'm teaching), is having a
while condition that appears to put a lid on things,
but then the flow all leaks away through break
statements, such that the front door condition
is
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:11 AM, John Zelle john.ze...@wartburg.edu wrote:
Kirby,
There are some nice thoughts here that I don't really disagree with, but your
code examples don't use the while conditions well. If you put a condition on
the loop, there should be no reason to retest the same
... another useful contribution to this thread.
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From: Richard Pattis pat...@ics.uci.edu
Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:53 PM
Subject: I'm not allowed to post
To: kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com
Feel free to post this for me, which got returned. Probably
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Mark Engelberg
mark.engelb...@gmail.com wrote:
...
I think it's pretty easy to interpret this article as saying that the women
couldn't hack it until it was replaced with something light and fluffy with
fewer sharp edges. Nowhere does it indicate that
As I was telling my younger daughter during the ride to school today
(she's a senior in high school, though already 20% professor and 22%
your boss), a huge missed opportunity (so far) is the hybrid of
theater and computer science.
My older step daughter majored - minored in something like that,
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Philip Guo p...@cs.stanford.edu wrote:
Agreed that finding more synergies (pardon my business-speak) between
computing and the liberal arts can be wonderful. Reminds me a bit of
Computing for Poets:
http://cs.wheatoncollege.edu/~mleblanc/131/
Yes.
Theater
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Jacqueline Wilson jwil...@paduaacademy.org
wrote:
...
Heh, good rant, really liked it. applause
I've volleyed back at my buddy -- hope to see what you'll make of it.
That's a moderated list (iron fist of Drexel) with known-quantity
characters / veterans
A few of us at Pycon were nodding heads (+1ing)
over the idea that our subculture / ethnicity could
evolve these canned talks that different people
deliver in their personalized style. More than that,
they demonstrate new teaching techniques such
that the audience might appreciate how advances
in
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:07 AM, DeanG goodmans...@gmail.com wrote:
+1
Regarding the Args Kwargs, Matt Harrisons Guide to: Learning Python
Decorators was a great read for this topic.
http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Learning-Python-Decorators-ebook/dp/B006ZHJSIM
I'm quite tempted to buy a
Lots of buzz on PSF list about Python and Raspberry Pi.
I know from independent sources that Python has attracted
considerable attention in the UK education community. Also,
the BBC Micro also came out around this time and our
PSF chairman is in the UK to help celebrate its anniversary
(50th? --
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote:
On 29.03.2012, at 17:49, kirby urner wrote:
Raspberry Pi doesn't currently run Python but there is some thought that
it should.
Huh? This is what the FAQ says:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
Apologies
Here's an excerpt from a post to a bfi.org related group in follow-up to Pycon:
In other news, related in that micro-engineering is at the basis of
all of this, I have recently returned from PyCon 2012, more
technically the US Pycon of that year, but which will be moving to
Montreal in 2014, so
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