[Tutor] Hello Python Tutor - help please!

2012-08-23 Thread Ron Painter
Hi, Cecilia: I came across your posts when catching up with my tutor-request digest emails. I did not see the Udacity site mentioned--if it was, my apologies for the repetition. Udacity.com, a free online education service, offers a number of high-quality courses. They include interactive

[Tutor] Hello Python Tutor - help please!

2012-08-22 Thread Cecilia Chavana-Bryant
Dear all, I am just returning to my doctoral studies after a 7-month medical leave and desperately trying to catch up for lost time. I am COMPLETELY new to programming, well, I did try learning C for 3 weeks 3 yrs ago (with very little success) but had to stop and then spent 2 years in the

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2012-08-22 Thread Mario Cacciatore
. -Mario -- From: Cecilia Chavana-Bryant Sent: 8/22/2012 6:35 AM To: tutor@python.org Subject: [Tutor] Hello Python Tutor - help please! Dear all, I am just returning to my doctoral studies after a 7-month medical leave and desperately trying to catch up for lost time

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2012-08-22 Thread leon zaat
...@ouce.ox.ac.uk To: tutor@python.org Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:10:46 + Subject: [Tutor] Hello Python Tutor - help please! Dear all, I am just returning to my doctoral studies after a 7-month medical leave and desperately trying to catch up for lost time. I am COMPLETELY new

Re: [Tutor] Hello Python Tutor - help please!

2012-08-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Hello Cecilia, My replies are below, interleaved with your comments, which are prefixed with marks. On 22/08/12 20:10, Cecilia Chavana-Bryant wrote: By the way, the 3 weeks I spent trying to learn C really ended up being spent trying to get to grips with using a terminal for the first time

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2012-08-22 Thread Cecilia Chavana-Bryant
) [w...@mac.com] Sent: 22 August 2012 15:17 To: Cecilia Chavana-Bryant Cc: William R. Wing (Bill Wing) Subject: Re: [Tutor] Hello Python Tutor - help please! On Aug 22, 2012, at 6:10 AM, Cecilia Chavana-Bryant cecilia.chavana-bry...@ouce.ox.ac.ukmailto:cecilia.chavana-bry...@ouce.ox.ac.uk wrote

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2012-08-22 Thread Joel Goldstick
Direct: +44 (0)1865 275861 Fax: +44 (0)1865 275885 From: William R. Wing (Bill Wing) [w...@mac.com] Sent: 22 August 2012 15:17 To: Cecilia Chavana-Bryant Cc: William R. Wing (Bill Wing) Subject: Re: [Tutor] Hello Python Tutor - help please! On Aug 22, 2012

Re: [Tutor] Hello Python Tutor - help please!

2012-08-22 Thread Alan Gauld
On 22/08/12 11:10, Cecilia Chavana-Bryant wrote: I do not know how to programme!. Thus, I was hoping that some of you can remember how you got started and point me towards any really good interactive learning guides/materials and/or have a good learning strategy for a complete beginner. At

Re: [Tutor] Hello Python Tutor - help please!

2012-08-22 Thread Walter Prins
Hi Cecilia, You've had a lot of good replies already, but I'd like to add the following points if I may: 1) You probably should figure out as much as that's possible up front exactly you're trying to do in terms of data processing first (e.g. some idea of the stats, graphs, summaries, operations

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2012-08-22 Thread Ray Jones
I highly recommend the Google Python class that is found on YouTube. The first video is found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTZoB2Vjuk The supporting class materials and assignments are found at http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/ . This series of videos begins at a

[Tutor] Hello Python Tutor - help please!

2012-08-22 Thread Cecilia Chavana-Bryant
Steven, (now from my new account without all the long-winded signature) can files be attached to posts in this forum? Cecilia ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

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2012-08-22 Thread Alan Gauld
On 22/08/12 22:51, Cecilia Chavana-Bryant wrote: Steven, (now from my new account without all the long-winded signature) can files be attached to posts in this forum? Yes they can, but we prefer if you just include them in the body if they are fairly short (100 lines?) or put them on a

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2012-08-22 Thread Alan Gauld
On 22/08/12 21:51, Cecilia Chavana-Bryant wrote: def main(fname, sheet_name): wb = xlrd.open_workbook(fname) sh = wb.sheet_by_name(sheet_name) data1 = sh.col_values(0) data2 = sh.col_values(1) return data1, data2 fname = Cal_File_P17.xlsx sheet_name = RefPanelData