Hey I have recently got stuck (jejeje) on riddle 7
Yes!!!! I managed to solve riddle 6 after hours of struggle with the ................ riddle Now I don't know what to do because there is no hint anywhere Regarding to Denise I would say don't give up, I didn't know anything that helped to solve riddle 6 but doing a little research and playing with IDLE I managed to get what I was looking for Thanks Alberto >From: "D. Hartley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "D. Hartley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Python tutor <tutor@python.org> >Subject: [Tutor] challenges - general >Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 13:10:35 -0700 > >Hello, everyone! > >Well after hours of struggle, I finally managed to get the peak riddle >solved. Very frustrating, but I think I learned a lot. > >However on the channel one - I cant get any ideas. It may just be best >for me to bow out at this point. One of my biggest problems has been >that not only is python a new language to me, but it's my first step >into programming at all: so many of the subjects that have come up in >these riddles are "background information" i didnt have. Also very >good things for me to learn (I'll have to learn a lot of non-python >stuff if I want to learn programming!) but it does make it difficult >at this beginning stage. It's too bad they dont have something like >"Jr. Python Challenges" (!!) > >Actually, perhaps this is something you guys would know about! In your >own learning python (or as you watched others learn, if you're one of >the resident experts), have you come across some good challenges for >python learners? > >I have worked on some, but here's what I have found: > >Too easy: every tutorial in the universe has a "guess my number" >game, and there are only so many times you can create that one ;) > >Too much explanation: My current python book teaches by way of >creating games, which I think is a great approach (that's what I'm >interested in anyway). But it gives explicit instructions on how to >do every single step. The end-of-chapter "additional challenges" have >proved to be closest to what I am looking for: problems that take >creative thinking, further research, and/or lots of experimentation to >figure out. For instance - of course it had the guess my number game, >but the chapter-end problem was to flip the roles so that the computer >tried to guess the user's number. Not terribly difficult, but fun to >work with. > >Too little explanation/direction: At least for a beginner, it's >helpful to have some idea of what you're trying to do ;) I also worked >with the Livewires worksheets, altho there were a couple of their >suggested exercises I could not get (for instance: when I was working >on my space invaders game and trying to figure out how to render text >onto the screen, one of the livewires extra tasks was to do something >exactly like that. But it didnt have anything about rendering text in >the course!) > >I think a really good example was the Regular Expressions puzzle in >the python challenges. I didnt know anything about regular >expressions, but there was enough of a hint so that I could find the >right module/library/direction, and, after reading it through a >handful of times and trying a bunch of things out (with a helpful >nudge or two in the right direction), I could solve the riddle *and* I >really feel like I learned something about regular expressions. I >definitely do want to learn some of these more complicated topics, and >I think that challenge really worked for me. > >So if anyone has a source of other challenges, I would really love to >see them. I need things to practice on! :) I like the way the python >challenges are set up, I'm just stuck where I am right now and there's >only the one to work on at a time so I'm pretty much at a loss there, >at the moment. I know there are a lot of new learners here who would >probably also appreciate challenges to try! > >~Denise >P.S. I still keep looking at riddle #6, even tho it's getting me >nowhere. I might try just searching python docs for channels or loops >or zippers or something. ha ha ;) >_______________________________________________ >Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor Gaucho _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
