[Tutor] Re: input() : part two

2005-04-30 Thread Chris Smith
I found a work around for the terminal it appears that the message in the input("message") was being assigned to the next variable making Matrix=error=alpha It's good to see that you got this working. Just a couple notes: 1) Regarding your comment above, it just *looks* like it was doing an ass

Re: [Tutor] guess the number game help

2005-04-30 Thread Diana Hawksworth
Thanks Alan and Max for confirming my worst fears - and for supplying the necessary link, Max. This kid left at the end of term with no clue - and came back 2 weeks later with this script. As his paper work doesn't support the script, and his in-class understanding doesn't indicate the knowledge s

Re: [Tutor] guess the number game help

2005-04-30 Thread Alan Gauld
> > And if they do understand it and know how to modify it then even if > > they did copy it they did the assignment and understood the code. > > Software reuse is not necessarily an evil to be stifled... > > > Have a look at the link I posted, Alan. Honestly, at that point > it's not "softwar

Re: [Tutor] guess the number game help

2005-04-30 Thread Max Noel
On Apr 30, 2005, at 19:50, Alan Gauld wrote: If my student has plagiarised - I need to know. Could you ask him(?) to explain some of the more "interesting" features? Maybe how he came up with the variable names? It is possible that he/she has come up with it themselves since its not really a great

Re: [Tutor] guess the number game help

2005-04-30 Thread Alan Gauld
> If my student has plagiarised - I need to know. Could you ask him(?) to explain some of the more "interesting" features? Maybe how he came up with the variable names? It is possible that he/she has come up with it themselves since its not really a great version - a very strange mix of OOP and pr

[Tutor] input() : part two

2005-04-30 Thread Servando Garcia
Hello everyone Thank you for the quick response to my last request. Here is an update, the program I am writing takes three values from the user than produces the source code for another program. THE PROBLEM: I needed to prompt the user for three values. I used input() like so M= input("Matrix=")

[Tutor] Re: Issue with "Entry"/GUI/PIL

2005-04-30 Thread Alberto Troiano
Hey It's a matter of fancyness (Sorry, I think I invented an English word, :D) you are asking in the same Entry you want them to answer, so in order to answer your question, I'll have to delete the question. Secondly, how can you analyze if you don't give the chance to the user to type an answer?

Re: [Tutor] guess the number game help

2005-04-30 Thread Max Noel
On Apr 30, 2005, at 09:49, Diana Hawksworth wrote: Hello list!   I have started teaching Python to a group of High School students. I set them the "Guess the Number" game as a GUI as an assignment. One of the students has passed in some script that is foreign to any tutorial work we have done. 

[Tutor] guess the number game help

2005-04-30 Thread Diana Hawksworth
Hello list!   I have started teaching Python to a group of High School students. I set them the "Guess the Number" game as a GUI as an assignment. One of the students has passed in some script that is foreign to any tutorial work we have done.  Some of it is below. Does anyone recognise it