In the open-source spirit of "release early", PyKata is now ready!! The
website development will be finished ... real soon :>) Anyone who would
like to contribute an exercise is now welcome. If you contributed to
the old PyWhip website, you might want to copy your contribution over to
PyKata. (Sorry we couldn't do this with Google App Engine. Looks like
they are rushing ahead with new features for end users, and leaving us
developers with a few headaches - like not being able to rename a
project, or even clone an old one to the new name!!) That said, I am
very pleased with App Engine. This is the infrastructure we need when
we get to thousands of users.
I've uploaded a draft of a new help file - bitsNbytes.py (at
http://pykata.appspot.com/help). This topic is not the most important
right now (we should be filling in the basic topics first), but I'm
working with a class in cryptography, and we do a lot of bit-level
manipulations. What I would like is some comments and suggestions. The
examples in this file will be what we expand on with exercises and more
helpful text. Have I chosen the right examples? Do I have the best way
to do it in each example? Unlike other areas where we often have a
clear best choice, working with bits and bytes in Python seems to have
a bewildering collection of ways to do it, and not a clear winner.
-- Dave
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* Research Associate phone: USA 520-721-4583 * * *
* ECE Department, University of Arizona * * *
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