On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Steven Bird <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/2/13 kirby urner <[email protected]>: >>> Sum of multiples of three (3-999), plus multiples of five (5-995), >>> minus multiples of 15 (15-990). No programming required. >>> >> >> Getting this as one line in Python would be a fun challenge though. > > Maybe. However, considering their educational value, I think the > problems are unmotivated and the result of doing any problem is almost > useless. I think newcomers to programming find externally-motivated > problems more compelling, especially when the solution is elegant and > not bogged down in housekeeping or corner cases. > > -Steven Bird >
The Software Association of Oregon, in collaboration with Willamette University, organizes an annual contest wherein high school teams compete with each other, and against the clock, on challenges of this type. In my experience with this contest, none were using Python because Python was not yet part of the high school curriculum in Oregon, except in corner cases. That was some years ago. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
