I've started to pick up some new Python students (adult age) through PDX Code Guild (<guild />).
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2016/01/bootcamp.html I was there last night watching their lead instructor coax them into gamely tackling the game of Zombie Dice, which has some pretty simple rules, not unlike Black Jack. https://flic.kr/p/CwcxzH (I assume the rule are Googleble) Tiffany is an accomplished instructor who inspires confidence in her team. https://flic.kr/p/CXDmZ4 ("duck typing" -- inside joke) Here's a snapshot of the kind of 'intro to classes' material we're using at <guild />, I'm sure reminiscent of what you've seen elsewhere, that you've written yourself: https://github.com/4dsolutions/Python5/blob/master/intro_classes.py I'm also planning to use this little quiz idea I picked up at Portland Python User Group (PPUG) -- code appended. That'll be when I guest lecture @ <guild /> on Wednesday, included in the Bootcamp course I'm aiming to pick up, after Intro to Python (starting soon InshaAllah). I'll also share some of the odyssey of our little gem of a School @ O'Reilly, not a sales pitch as we've decided on a different tack ("we" as in ORM, for whom I'm still working even as we speak, marathon runner students rushing to the finish line). Hey, I'm really looking forward to this new PEP being in 3.6: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/portland/2016-January/001733.html (re 0498) My other gig is teaching State of California folks enrolled in an enlightened professional development program. Saisoft.net -- some of you may already know that outfit. That's using Internet, but in real time, whereas School job is / was asynchronous (it's not either / or). Aside: I'm finding Lynda.com has some dynamite content around JavaScript / JQuery I'm thinking. Yes, that's a commercial. Safari Online is dynamite too, a perk I get to keep as a thank you (our faculty was dynamite). http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2016/01/what-is-jquery.html (the Joe Marini movies are great!) Looking forward to Pycon in Portland! Kirby ==== # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ Created on Sun Jan 10 21:15:06 2016 @author: kurner Keywords Quiz Can you think of them all? """ import keyword all_kw = keyword.kwlist[:] # make a copy found = [ ] while len(all_kw) > 0: print("{} keywords left to guess".format(len(all_kw))) guess = input("What is your guess? (q to quit): ") if guess == 'q': print("You gave up!") print("Unguessed: ", all_kw) print("Guessed: ", found) break if guess in all_kw: print("Yes, that's one of them") all_kw.remove(guess) found.append(guess) elif guess in found: print("You got that one already") print("Found:", found) else: print("{} is not a keyword in Python.".format(guess)) else: print("Congratulations; you got them all!") Kirby
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