Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-28 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 28/07/16 05:53, monik...@netzero.net wrote: > I have been looking for tutorials but could not find anything > at my level of understanding. You said to not focus on python > but I had a python teacher ... stressing on doing things in > "pythonic" way. When learning to program there are two as

Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-28 Thread monik...@netzero.net
"pythonic" way. Thank you for the links and I will check/read each one of them. Monika -- Original Message -- From: Danny Yoo To: "monik...@netzero.net" Cc: Alan Gauld , Python Tutor Mailing List Subject: Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem Date: Wed, 27 Jul

Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-27 Thread Danny Yoo
> You will see a problem being explained that you should be *very* > interested in. :) Here's a link just to give you a taste: > > https://youtu.be/0yjebrZXJ9A?t=3m > > > I hope that this helps point you in the right direction. Good luck! He has some more recent videos from 2012: htt

Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-27 Thread Danny Yoo
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 4:30 PM, monik...@netzero.net wrote: > Thank you all for your answers. I do not have a teacher or any body else who > could guide me. I have taken all python classes offered in my area and many > on line. > The question is one of questions asked by interviews for a qa pos

Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-25 Thread monik...@netzero.net
learn so that I could get a job. Nobody offers manual qa jobs anymore so I am working on updating my skills. -- Original Message -- From: Alan Gauld via Tutor To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 00:21:10 +0100 On 24/07/16 20

Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-24 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 24/07/16 20:58, Danny Yoo wrote: > Please: I strongly encourage you to talk with your professor or study > group: it really does sound like this is the first time you've seen these > kinds of concepts. I agree with Danny, you should talk to your teacher. I suspect the teacher may have set th

Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-24 Thread Danny Yoo
> You probably want to use a problem that has fewer moving parts. Your instructor likely has a much nicer introductory problem so that you can learn the patterns of thinking through these problems. Just to add: there are online resources you can use for this. Khan Academy, for example: https://w

Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-24 Thread Danny Yoo
On Jul 23, 2016 9:27 AM, "monik...@netzero.net" wrote: > > IM sorry I do not understand: > > For array A of length N, and for an integer k < N: > -- By k do you mean value of k or position of k in the list? > The letter 'k' is typically intended to be used as an index, a position into a list. I'

Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-24 Thread monik...@netzero.net
d Cc: "monik...@netzero.net" , tutor Subject: Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 00:13:36 -0700 On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > > Forwarding to list. Please use reply-all when responding to tutor messages. > > As Danny suggested

Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-23 Thread Danny Yoo
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > > Forwarding to list. Please use reply-all when responding to tutor messages. > > As Danny suggested this is quite a complex problem. I wasn't sure whether > it was just the programming or the bigger algorithm issue you were stuck on.

Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-21 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
< items[i]: > run +=[ items[i]] > elif items[i - 1] > items[i]: > del run[-1] > run += [items[i]] > print run > > -- Original Message -- > From: Alan Gauld via Tutor > To: "m

Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-20 Thread Danny Yoo
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:11 PM, monik...@netzero.net wrote: > Hi: > Can somebody please provide answer to following python programming question? > I have spent days on it and cannot come up with any code that would make any > sense for it so I cannot provide you any code. But I would appreciate

Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-20 Thread monik...@netzero.net
IM not able to figure out algorithm to find the runs. Here is the code I have: def ProgressCalc(items): counts = [items[0]] for i in range(1, len(items)-1): print "for loop", items[i], items[i + 1] if counts[- 1] < items[i]: counts += [items[i]] prin

[Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-20 Thread monik...@netzero.net
Hi: Can somebody please provide answer to following python programming question? I have spent days on it and cannot come up with any code that would make any sense for it so I cannot provide you any code. But I would appreciate the answer very much, if not in python, then in pseudo code. Thank y

Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-20 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 21/07/16 00:14, monik...@netzero.net wrote: > IM not able to figure out algorithm to find the runs. > Here is the code I have: OK, Forget about code for now. just focus on what is being asked. > > The first question to ask is can you do it without a computer? > > In other words given > > > > i

Re: [Tutor] python programmin problem

2016-07-20 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 20/07/16 22:11, monik...@netzero.net wrote: > ... if not in python, then in pseudo code. The first question to ask is can you do it without a computer? In other words given input [1,7,2,3,5,4,6] Can you first of all produce a list of all valid runs? [1,2,3,5,6] and [1,2,3,4,6] both have leng