Re: [Tutor] Exhaustive Enumeration

2008-09-22 Thread jeremiah
Download links... 1) Think Python (about 240 pages)--Allen Downey and http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html > 2) A Byte of Python (about 100 pages) http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python#Download On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 16:31 -0400, Robert Berman wrote: > First, thank y

Re: [Tutor] Exhaustive Enumeration

2008-09-21 Thread vishwajeet singh
Thanks for the link it's really useful :) On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Robert Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > That it is. > > Jaggo wrote: > > Lol. And here I said to myself only, "What a nice challenge". > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Robert Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >>

Re: [Tutor] Exhaustive Enumeration

2008-09-21 Thread Robert Berman
That it is. Jaggo wrote: Lol. And here I said to myself only, "What a nice challenge". On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Robert Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A very interesting problem.  Given this is homework, I am not sure what it is you want. Do you want the sol

Re: [Tutor] Exhaustive Enumeration

2008-09-21 Thread Robert Berman
First, thank you for the explanation. I admire your desire to learn bull riding by jumping on the monster's back.  The problem with assignments based on a course is that many professors and associates have learned the only way to insure student class attendance is to obfuscate the assignment

Re: [Tutor] Exhaustive Enumeration

2008-09-21 Thread btkuhn
I'm actually not enrolled in the course; MIT puts some of its course materials available online as a general resource. I am out of school and trying to teach myself python on my own. I'm very much a beginner, and since I'm not privy to the lectures or notes from this course I have to fill in th

Re: [Tutor] Exhaustive Enumeration

2008-09-21 Thread Robert Berman
A very interesting problem.  Given this is homework, I am not sure what it is you want. Do you want the solution coded and tested? Do you want this to include two or three algorithms optimized for speed as well as accuracy? I think the problem is well enough defined so that you do not need an

[Tutor] Exhaustive Enumeration

2008-09-21 Thread btkuhn
This is from the MIT Opencourseware intro to computer science course, which I've been working my way through. I understand what needs to be done (I think), which is basically to test each possibility and return the list of states with the most electoral votes that can be paid for under the camp