problem, except possibly for the wiki's front page (spammers
are lazy). Note that the wiki also has a mechanism that can send email
when a page is changed.
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of maturity - mostly
these are part time things that play with along with my students.
/Chuck Severance
www.dr-chuck.com
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:05 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:47 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
fractions.Fraction, on the other hand, barfs on anything
schools (ETS slave, whatever).
I think that comment is a little out of line. BTW big Oh is not part
of calculus, it's part of complexity theory, a totally different field
(more relevant to computers than calculus though).
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in commodities. Now I am switching back to stocks. I just hope I
can ride it out.
I don't get the connection. But maybe this is just your way of hinting
that you are in it for the money.
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, Guido van Rossum wrote:
PS. Just watched two groups of 8th grade middle school girls go
through their first Python class. Cool! (That's what they said too.
:-)
What did they cover in that class? I'd be curious to know what 8th
graders consider cool, after 1 class
, which puts a LiveWires wrapper around pygame.
Vern
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How old are your students? We are considering pygame, but the teacher
is taken aback by the large amount of setup code needed. Also, running
programs using pygame from IDLE on a Mac seems flaky.
On Wed
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:55 PM, kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So what's instead of reload in Python 3.x?
imp.reload()
PS. Just watched two groups of 8th grade middle school girls go
through their first Python class. Cool! (That's what they said too.
:-)
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) would be if they could print their pictures
to a printer.
Does anybody know of how to do this?
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of the 8-whip
minimum!
http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/parentsteachers/program/ep_desc_3.html
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On 7/19/07, Paul D. Fernhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We'll see how well censorship works here too.
Equating what is happening here to censorship is a joke in itself.
All the best.
Good riddance.
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rule forbidding such destructive topics (enforced by a
moderator reminding posters and readers of this rule when the topic is
accidentally brought up again).
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On 7/17/07, Andre Roberge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/17/07, Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have seem more than one mailing list go
up in flames over education politics -- understandably a touchy issue
so perhaps best discussed elsewhere. I have also seen lists saved
to NOT interpose it into threads that aren't
about that?
That won't help enough. There are plenty of other places where you can
post political opinions. There's only one place to discuss the
teaching of Python. Please keep the politics out.
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to champion any particular thing. While Python is
open source, Python doesn't take a position on the superiority of open
source. Open source happens to have been expedient for Python's
proliferation. Your mileage may vary. We're not the FSF.
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that generality and late bindingness
might also make possible restarting an exception without VM changes.
Why do you care about avoidung VM changes? The VM changes
(incrementally) at each minor Python release.
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On 2/24/07, Paul D. Fernhout [EMAIL
])
for name in oldnames - newnames:
delattr(oldclass, name)
for name in oldnames newnames - set([__dict__, __doc__]):
setattr(oldclass, name, newdict[name])
return oldclass
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may well have been that he sensed this in me and changed
his tune to avoid offending me; clearly he wants something from me.
:-)
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On 7/13/06, Andreas Raab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
There we go again. You are surrounded by geeks so obviously you don't
realize this any more, but do you have *any* idea how privileged you
were to have a computer in the early 80s?
In what way is this relevant
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On 7/12/06, Andreas Raab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I have no argument with the rest of your message but I want to stop
the rhetoric claiming that the WWW is somehow bad for us.
Heck, no. I didn't mean to say that the web is bad for you (as in TV
is bad for you
to sell out (except on the topic of int/int :-).
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massage oil. :-)
There can be truth to the rumor if you want to; just propose a meaning
and it will magically become true (sort of like the room of
requirement in Harry Potter).
But why is there an ad about George W Bush Humor showing in my gmail
window next to this thread?
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On 5/26/06, kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given Python's original goal was to be friendly to techies who are not
specifically computer scientists,
Actually, that was ABC's goal. Python's original goal was to be a
scripting language for people already fluent in C and sh.
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spends its
money.
And no, the participants in the discussion don't get a parting shot of
the form okay, I will withdraw, but here are my last words. Believe
me, you've already had your say.
(Hey, I'm almost wishing for Art. At least he's terse. :-)
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Date: Apr 22, 2006 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: Moving forward the educational Python code development
To: Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Kirby Urner [EMAIL PROTECTED], [...]
Guido van Rossum wrote:
After Kirby's posts and mine on the Python mailing list
thing. So, we are just really talking about the meaning of
completely in Monty Python's and now for something completely
different. :-)
All the best.
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Let me just add that *this* is an example of why I am going to quickly
extract myself from
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? (If not, adding it might
be a SoC project?)
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about pygame? That's a more likely candidate.
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you have to
compare each point to all points following it in the list until the x
coordinate is more than epsilon away.
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Has anyone looked at this yet?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/
http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/story/0,10801,105100,00.html
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but didn't find a quick answer to this.
Perhaps somebody can help me out?
$ python -Qnew
Python 2.3.4 (#2, Aug 6 2004, 10:37:58)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.
1/2
0.5
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keep this up for ten years - sure
print future_value(iday,cday,ivalue,cvalue,10)
_
which returns
4561078546.84
If you fix it, as follows:
year_periods=days_invested/365
the answer is about 85. :-)
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