Re: freeing scholars to return to their studies
===
http://www.pythonanywhere.com/user/pdx4d/consoles/
You won't be able to access that username's consoles without
a password, but feel free to set up your own account. Here's
a way to share Python across the wire. A way to play around
and
One still hear's tones of regret that the good old
days are over, when one's choice of a first year
computer language was obvious: Algol or Pascal.
Today there's no such consensus (if there ever
was), but another question is should we have
learning languages?
There was a time when it was
My whimsical title relates to the conflation of two
notions: cows in a morphogenetic field, and
the spread of computer languages.
As more and more people learn Python, does it
get easier to learn? That would seem an obvious
no unless you believe in magic, but then think
about it: more people
I'm downloading Net Logo in the background.
Logo is making a come back in this new form, thanks to complexity studies.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/5583591181/in/set-72157625646071793
Turtles have become agents and the typical thing is to have thousands of them.
My idea of good Python lore would be an almost book length discussion,
at least, of the implementation of the list data structure.
Go through the C in great detail, using this as an excuse to teach C
in the context of it's supporting a higher language, looking ahead for
your readers, knowing some
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Andrew Harrington ahar...@luc.edu wrote:
I'm not sure we are clear on the audience here. I use Python in teaching in
different situations. For the newbie course with my Hands-on Python
Tutorial, the main idea is an intro to creative programming, where many
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Christian Mascher
christian.masc...@gmx.de wrote:
On the other hand,
res_dict[ext] = res_dict.get(ext, 0) + 1
Isn't this at least as readable, and conceptually simpler?
if ext in res_dict:
res_dict[ext] += 1
else: res_dict[ext] =
Interesting responses.
I harp on that
somedict [ key ] = somedict.get( key, 0 ) + 1
option quite a bit, as shorter and easier than all that try / except stuff.
That's just the bias I've been applying, to an invisible army of...
what? Hundreds? Hard to keep track.
Anyway, good to see the
Isn't this at least as readable, and conceptually simpler?
if ext in res_dict:
res_dict[ext] += 1
else:
res_dict[ext] = 1
I get that a lot too and often propose my one-liner. This is not a
matter of flagging a mistake, just showing another way.
It's a chance to learn
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote:
In a message of Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:36:43 PST, kirby urner writes:
Isn't this at least as readable, and conceptually simpler?
if ext in res_dict:
res_dict[ext] += 1
else:
res_dict[ext] = 1
I get that a lot too
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote:
If you are seeing this over and over, then it is time to reach for
defaultdict, no? I've found that that often does produce what is for me
more readable code, and has the advantage of being very fast, too.
I'm happy to
Below is typical feedback to a student.
What do others think regarding my discussion of using try /except
in routine dict manipulation?
Kirby
===
Yes perfect. Good work.
try:
res_dict[ext] += 1
except KeyError:
res_dict[ext] = 1
This code is not
Somewhat tangentially bouncing around in this
vicinity, I offer these remarks re our situation at
work, where we want students connecting over
the wire to have good first experience using Python.
Retention is an issue.
The school's guiding philosophy requires providing
real hands-on programming
Useful memes:
===
1. Bootup background as starry firmament:
Python comes with a relatively fixed firmament, like the sphere of the
the stars: the '__builtins__' namespace.
When your script (from your playbook) launches, it may assume this
starry firmament as a background. print( ) will be
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Andrew Harrington ahar...@luc.edu wrote:
Is anyone trying to modernize the code to work with more modern versions of
the supporting packages? Sad to still see Arthur's email address still on
the home page so many years after his death.
I've seen estates keep
More memes welcome. Imagining a culturally savvy adult audience that
knows about Monty Python is a helpful practice, if aiming for
Python.tv
Kirby
4. Theater metaphors re agency
One of my recent comments on a student quiz re what is a namespace?
names refer to objects in memory.
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Brian Wilkinson
brian.wilkin...@ssfs.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
Our upper school, looking to beef up their technology offerings, offered an
introductory programming course this year using Python. I am normally a
technology coordinator, supporting teachers
Exhibit, old project: http://pygeo.sourceforge.net/
Arthur Siegel was the creator of this and he and I used to take a lot
of the bandwidth here on edu-sig hashing it out about various topics.
I still go back to that stuff. We have a great archive, lots of
spirited discussion.
Having read
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:25 PM, michel paul mpaul...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:36 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.comwrote:
PS: on a related topic, there's also a negative connotation
associated with imperative programming. The word imperative gets
translated to mean
Appended: from a Physics teaching list I frequent.
Note the negative connotations associated with object orientation (=
asocial = lack of social affect).
I take up this ethnographic thread in my blogs and this discussion
list from time to time, as I think it's apropos to many subtopics
Greetings Alan, thanks for filing your thinking on edu-sig, where I'm
a lurker from the beginning or close to it (CP4E predates my
involvement).
I think readers outside the UK might benefit from a more frequent
decoding of BBC into British Broadcasting Corporation here and there
in your writings.
Our recent PPUG meeting at Produce Row included Michelle Rowley's
proposal to do a Pycon talk centered around posture, ergonomics, yoga,
all those tricks you need to know to stay buff in your cubicle.
Something like:
class Kundalini:
def __chakra1__(self): Muladhara
def
I've been enjoying repartee with the math-teach irregulars over on
Math Forum, an old haunt of mine, approaching 6K postings over the
years, maybe more if we count lost dialogs (had a good one with J.H.
Conway when MF was still with Swarthmore).
The thread includes some commentary on OLPC and
Greetings from Portlandia.
DjangoCon 2011 has just ended. This is a pretty deep community with
some excellent leadership, and the size of conference (under 400) is
comfortable and intimate for many people.
Here's a link to some fun pix from Yarko that I just got from
Chairman Steve (as in Steve
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Python's Standard Library turtle module is just another Python module
with no more docs than average for an SL mod.
I suppose in the interests of completeness we
should mention that Python's native turtle mod
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Sarina Canelake sar...@mit.edu wrote:
Hi Kirby,
Thanks for the feedback. I've enjoyed reading your posts on the list, and
the specific concerns you address are well worth considering. If you don't
mind, I'd like to give some background on my project.
I'm glad
2011/8/27 moku...@earthtreasury.org:
It turns out that many Young-Earth Creationists deny the existence of all
of geology (including all methods of dating rocks using radioactive
isotopes) and most of astronomy. We cannot, in their view, see light from
objects more than 10,000 light-years
Just alerted to this one by the chairman:
http://pythonfiddle.com/
Still checking it out.
Kirby
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On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Sarina Canelake sar...@mit.edu wrote:
Hi Carl,
I am a master's student, and for my project I am building an interactive
Python tutor system, hopefully with 150-250 problems, as well as embedded
video. Some of my inspirations have been the Khan Academy and
I've been haunting the math-teach list, as usual,
suggesting we take a page from AP computer
science and build our math around an interlinked,
themed, consistent set of story problems -- rather
than making these meaningless (deliberately).
The opponents in this debate bring up the specter
of
2011/8/26 Charles Cossé cco...@gmail.com:
Greetings, Kirby,
just thought I'd throw-out-there that physics/astronomy can offer a context
that is neither meaningless, nor open to political propaganda. Of course
anything can be twisted, but at least it's relatively free from the specters
that
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Carl Cerecke c...@free.org.nz wrote:
Looks good. Nice work.
+1
Blogged a link:
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-think-like-computer-scientist.html
Great contribution to computer lit.
Kirby
Hello,
As part of my Sabbatical this past year I've
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:59 PM, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com wrote:
Here's my blogs about Learning and Teaching Math and Computing with
technology!
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2011/07/taking-show-on-road.html
Really glad you're collecting and posting these in one place.
Great to
Lots of talk of a code of conduct going in,
as I pieced it together later, with dribs and
drabs on the organizer's list, which I've been
on. We had some last minute plea for some
small print boilerplate, like a EULA, that no
one reads, until getting a Knock on the Door
from Microsoft...
Of
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Tutorials/Numerals
I have several of these tutorials in a reasonably finished state, and many
more written but not illustrated, with more outlined. Cardinals and
mappings are in the Counting tutorial, but I have not tackled ordinals
yet.
Hi Vernon,
... not to be confused with Vern the Watcher Ceder.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Vernon Cole vernondc...@gmail.com wrote:
There is a very good reason for this: standard library code must be
readable for people all over the world. That's why a Dutch software
engineer wrote a
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Vern Ceder vce...@gmail.com wrote:
Since Kirby invoked me by name ;), I'll jump in with a quick top post,
a) because I'm lazy and in a hurry, and b) because my comments are only
generally related to the specifics of the previous posts. Apologies.
First of
Then we have a choice of transitioning to Python, supported directly
within Turtle Art using program blocks; Logo, which we can create as an
export option from Turtle Art; or the Etoys environment for Smalltalk,
which can also do turtle graphics using tile-based programming. There are
also
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Corey Richardson kb1...@aim.com wrote:
SNIP
But, my real question to you educators is, which paradigm do you use when
first teaching programming, and why? My peers cite OOP because, frankly,
it's the only thing they've learned and have heard that e.g.
@David: thanks for the autobio, starting in Hillsboro where I was talking
about the police jumping into Linux to improve their relations with youth
culture. It was an experiment.
Saturday Academy was where the police turned for instructors, which
I where I came into that story, via George
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:03 PM, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote:
On Wed, June 29, 2011 7:15 pm, mary.do...@comcast.net wrote:
I teach 6th grade math and Python was suggested as a way to apply
pre-algebra concepts in a programming context. My programming background
consists of one C++
Hi Mary --
Many subscribers to edu-sig have developed interesting approaches over the
years.
There's a lot of interest in turtle art and/or turtle graphics. There's
this tendency to divide algebra from geometry, whereas some teachers think
it's important to keep lexical and graphical connected.
Fun to enhance robotics threads with science fiction, to give
it more texture.
My Martian Math class last summer focused on Python,
but also the Mars probes (watched some Youtubes [1]),
sometimes called robots, though remotely piloted, not
autonomous (the case with many robots, including bomb
I've been looking these over since reading your post. I'd heard of this
project but this was my first time to really check it out.
Euler's name has been coming up for sure, these days more in a city with
bridges context, in that I'm interested in optimizing food flows, using
bicycles to
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:54 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been looking these over since reading your post. I'd heard of this
project but this was my first time to really check it out.
Euler's name has been coming up for sure, these days more in a city with
bridges
Lots of great links here.
Was surfing around, 1 degree of separation, and came across this
excellent Ignite talk:
http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009#p/f/23/t3IP_FmGams
(about restoring an Archimedes text from like an overwritten hard drive --
fortunately, it was analog (a book)).
Such great
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:51 PM, michel paul mpaul...@gmail.com wrote:
def f(n, history = []):
history.append(n)
return history
f(1)
[1]
f(2)
[1, 2]
f(3)
[1, 2, 3]
f(2)
[1, 2, 3, 2]
f(1)
[1, 2, 3, 2, 1]
f(1,[])
[1]
A student wrote me wondering why his function wouldn't
I'm thinking OOP, more than any other paradigm, encourages
a rich set of metaphors, which may be touted as an advantage
if you're ever up against the well in an OOP-hostile room (been
there done that). Anti-imperativists can be pretty militant.
Inheritance is a most obvious metaphor, from whence
Hi, Kirby.
Thanks for mentioning Egyptian fractions. I think one of the algorithms
for finding them leads to a neat programming exercise on representing
numbers in binary.
Given p/q, where q is a prime, first find n such that
2^n q 2^(n+1). Then consider Q = q*(2^n). Q has a
Hey Jeff, your question about controlling the turtle's screen
might have been just the ticket in my attempts to control
chaos, namely G. Lingl's chaos.py, which demonstrates
sensitivity to initial conditions is a plus if you want your
algebra to stay on the same page as itself, per equalities
that
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at wrote:
Hi Kirby,
it's fine that you host a slightly amended version of chaos.py
on your website.
Thanks Gregor. I've also got John Zelle's graphics.py in the docket.
Having any backend code is a somewhat new idea. I'm
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
Baseball stats and turtles? That's something I have been wishing for.
I think that the best way to interest children in probability and
statistics is sports, including published data and the book Money
Ball. Also Nate
I've got tons of free stuff on-line that I use with high-school aged or
adults (who tend to be slower, if better informed).
However, not much of it fits the exercises + solutions format. If I were
you' I'd invest in a copy of
Mathematics for the Digital Age and Programming in Python
by Litvin
I know the owner of Python.tv which is one logical place. But I don't think
it's mapped yet.
What's the resolution of ShowMeDo? I have a bunch on there myself.
Kirby
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Andrew Harrington ahar...@luc.edu wrote:
I'm making a bunch of videos for my Hands-on
Groupoids, categories, rings (clock time), fields (modular
arithmetic), vector spaces, and algebras require a bit more thought,
but I am sure that they can be done.
That's perfect Ed. Good to hear for another die-hard group
theory for children dude, a vanishing breed perhaps.
My intended
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 04:12, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Groupoids, categories, rings (clock time), fields (modular
arithmetic), vector spaces, and algebras require a bit more thought,
but I am sure
Hey Gregor, I'm being somewhat hopelessly abstruse (obtuse?) in this
philosophy list.
You'll see your name going by, in connection with that Wittgenstein sister's
house in Vienna:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WittrsAMR/message/4360?var=0l=1
BBC spent some time on it (her house) in some erudite
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Corey Richardson kb1...@aim.com wrote:
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On 05/09/2011 07:11 PM, Kirby Urner wrote:
It's like doctest but different in that we're not showing interactions,
though we could be.
I saw in #python that someone
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Kirby Urner kur...@oreillyschool.com
wrote:
OST Skunkworks: Freakish Tractor
generator that moves forward to a boundary reading
current character, writing current marker. Fuel
might run out. send protocol may be employed to
tank up, redirect, change
I posed this question before. The usual answer is: a file containing
Python source code.
But you can import .pyc files even after the .py files are been
removed, likewise .pyd files.
Is a Python module anything that's importable and runnable within
Python, that responds to dir( ) etc.?
True
A module is an object like any other:
I agree with you Corey.
So those saying a module consists of Python source code are being a bit
loose with the term.
It's sufficient that it behave in a Pythonic manner. We could have lots of
Python modules without source in some collection.
Kirby
I appreciate your quoting GvR and continue to note that the source might
already be yummy byte code in whatever target VM language, be that Java's or
Mono's or some VM not yet written.
Source code is one step away from runtime digestible, in still needing to
be parsed, and as such need not be
://www.trypython.org/
http://www.trypython.org/--
Vernon
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Kirby Urner kur...@oreillyschool.comwrote:
[...]
One might imagine a Python chat window showing up as a chat service
(shell) and behaving much as an ordinary Python interpreter in REPL mode
(great for learning, we
Over 30% of the modules you will be importing today were written in either
Erlang or Haskell...
That's going to make sense, right?
Kirby
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Robert sigz...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2011-05-03 03:39:52 -0400, kirby urner said:
I posed this question before
Wait, OK, there we go, Silverlight installed.
OK, cool, a handsome Python REPL. At OST we use server hosted Eclipse
with remote desktop, pretty off the shelf but with some custom guts.
Kirby
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Kirby Urner kur...@oreillyschool.com wrote:
No good experience so far
OST Skunkworks: Freakish Tractor
generator that moves forward to a boundary reading
current character, writing current marker. Fuel
might run out. send protocol may be employed to
tank up, redirect, change the marker. Farm is an
n x m array, presumably smallish, for interactive
console
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Lee Harr miss...@hotmail.com wrote:
Is there an advantage to using SketchUp over Blender?
Hi Lee --
I've been meaning to reply to this. I have only the utmost respect
for Blender, which I've tackled a number of times. I mostly cut my
teeth on POV-Ray
sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2009/02/supy-scripting-sketchup-in-python.html
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Now, that's a cool idea! I'll have to pass that along to our engineering
class, which uses sketchup some...
Thanks,
Vern
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:34 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.comwrote:
sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2009/02/supy-scripting-sketchup-in-python.html
In calling something demented I'm coming off
the namespace used around genres of cartoon.
Cartoons I'd consider demented:
Pinky and the Brain
Ren and Stimpy
Teenage Aqua Hunger Force (Kevin Altis of PythonCard a fan)
SpongeBob SquarePants
...
(see clips on Youtube for any/all)
Synonyms for
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:16 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
In calling something demented I'm coming off
the namespace used around genres of cartoon.
Cartoons I'd consider demented:
Pinky and the Brain
Ren and Stimpy
Teenage Aqua Hunger Force (Kevin Altis of PythonCard
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
So 'in' is a comparison operator, is it? I am annoyed at how long it
took me to verify that Python treats it as such, and I am also annoyed
that it is so.
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html
5.7. More
ratios (proportions).
So my Python not surprisingly tilted towards VPython
in much of my writings and slideshows (from visual import *).
You'll see other themes as well. Basically it's all Geometry
or Geography for me (like on mathfuture), keeps it neat and
easy, Occam my barber too.
Kirby Urner
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Michael H. Goldwasser goldw...@slu.eduwrote:
To start a new thread, I'm always trying to keep a list of some common
gotchas that beginning students run across when using Python, or
things that teachers should keep in mind when teaching with the
language.
One of my Python students alerted me to this state of affairs.
I understand that what globals( ) returns will fluctuate as new names come
and go.
What I less understand is why g isn't just a *snap shot* of what was global
at the time globals( ) ran.
Now it's just a dictionary like any other
Good hearing from you John.
It's interesting to compare globals( ) with dir( ). That latter is affected
by
the new names in a for loop but doesn't reflect these changes until
later, whereas globals( ) raises an exception.
The globals dict seems an unusual beast. Interesting recursivity too.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote:
In a message of Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:19:45 PDT, kirby urner writes:
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What I less understand is why g isn't just
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote:
Incorrect, I think. When I am talking about 'the same 'one' object',
what I mean is not some sort of philosophical one-ness, some Platonic
ideal of one, which like all the numbers, is a singleton, wherever it
occurs in
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Michael H. Goldwasser goldw...@slu.eduwrote:
Note well that the issue has changed since the original post. The
question at the time concerned the following code
Not to quibble, but the issue of the *original* post had to do with
assignments (such as those
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From: kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com
To: edu-sig@python.org
Sent: Fri, Mar 18, 2011 3:39 pm
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Videos of edu-sig talks at PyCon
Then I should have linked to this OpenGL stuff, which is kinda like
what I've been doing in VPython.
http://blip.tv/file/4882916
Then I should have linked to this OpenGL stuff, which is kinda like
what I've been doing in VPython.
http://blip.tv/file/4882916
But as of tonight, that talk in particular is down (not available). I
hope this is a temporary situation.
Yep, definitely broken for others as well. We've
I should contact this guy!
http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4880794/
That's Vern's talk, which I liked.
Then I should have linked to this OpenGL stuff, which is kinda like
what I've been doing in VPython.
http://blip.tv/file/4882916
But as of tonight, that talk in particular is down (not
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Vern Ceder vce...@gmail.com wrote:
They have the videos of our talks up already!
The panel is at http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4879118/
and my talk on Python and robots in high school is at
http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4880794/
Both were received pretty well, I
make math your own, to make your own math
-- Maria Droujkova
See:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2011-March/010224.html
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2011/03/pycon-2011.html
http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture/msg/4a847eb3cc12db77?hl=en
def makepi():
Pi to a thousand
by Horacio Nunez and posted to the OST FB zone before the end of Pi Day:
http://merthin.com/?p=159 (source code below)
Congratulations Horacio, and happy Pi Day.
That's 2 for Python. Score!
OST
==
##author: Horacio Nunez
import decimal, math, functools
D = decimal.Decimal
C =
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Vern Ceder vce...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
In chatting with Charlie Clark and others today, it came up that we
aren't doing as much as we might to promote the successes of Python in
education. So I agreed to pass along to this list the call for content
=== makingmath.py ===
make math your own
-- Maria Droujkova
def makepi():
stub function
Ramanujan's freakish formula
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2008/02/reflective-fragment.html
# using_gmpy()
# using_decimal()
# using_whatever()
return 3.14
===
I can understand why they did it. They haven't won me over to eclipse
though. I just find the interface too busy for my liking (although that
could just be the way they ahve it setup for the school). If I am doing a
few scripts I use Vim but I recently purchased PyCharm from the Jetbrains
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at schrieb:
Some might prefer a monospaced font like the beautiful Liberation Mono
(GNU General Public License) for instance. Using a non monospace font can be
irritating sometimes concerning the indentation.
I should check that
For those already using Visual Studio:
http://pytools.codeplex.com/
Kirby
not @ Pycon
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show details 9:49 PM (17 hours ago)
Hi folks,
A couple of Python OSS enthusiasts at msft have produced an add-in
for Visual Studio that enables intellisense, browsing,
Source code for math-teach post
by Kirby Urner / OST
(c) GNU Public License, 2011
import string, random
charset = list(string.ascii_lowercase + )
def make_perm( ):
make some random permutation object mapping ,a-z into itself
target = charset[:] # copy all
random.shuffle(target
making operator
overloading a snap. Write a class, define __mul__ to suit.
Kirby
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Kirby Urner kur...@oreillyschool.com wrote:
Source code for math-teach post
by Kirby Urner / OST
(c) GNU Public License, 2011
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Good question.
Depends *a lot* on the curriculum.
If students are just being introduced to the idea of an REPL (read evaluate
print loop) then
showing off more than one IDE at the outset might prove enlightening.
Show Tell: Python with vim in Linux shell.
Show Tell: Python with IDLE with
Per the Steve Holden curriculum, which I'm currently teaching, we
start with doctest and get students familiar with the whole idea of
test driven development (TDD), which is presented as an aspect of
agile programming. The beginner level leaves it at that, with the
intermediate course starting in
Yeah these are both good suggestions.
It's fun to throw maybe one or two examples of unittest into the mix, maybe
already written (so-called scaffolding).
But unless it's a course about programming / development and nothing more,
flogging unittest (aka PyUnit) might seem too much of a detour.
, and the log entry:
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2011/02/open-secrets.html
Steve will be joining you at Pycon soon. I'm
too booked up this year. I forget if Michelle will
be going, I think she said yes.
Ah, Steve is here,
Kirby Urner
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Martian Math
Digital Math
Pythonic Math
Gnu
continued fractions
phi
1.6180371352785146
pi
3.1415189855952756
phi =\
(1 + 1/
(1 + 1/
(1 + 1/
(1 + 1/
(1 + 1/
(1 + 1/
(1 + 1/
(1 + 1/
(1 + 1/
I link back to our posts from here:
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7381491tstart=0
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7381491tstart=0The next
turn of the spiral might involve taking such functions and
making them methods of a Polynomial object.
Example framework:
polystuff.py (Python 3.x)
For a curriculum segment when we're not yet wanting to build
user-defined classes.
showpoly -- return an evaluable string with x the variable
evalpoly -- return a numeric result given an evaluable string and x's value
multipoly -- return the product of two polynomials
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