On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, larry a price wrote:
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> I'm thinking about putting together a python class aimed at
> bussinesspersons and not-for-profit organizations that will focus on
> giving people enough programming knowledge to solve their own problems.
> Basically the sort of person we would call super-users in the windows
> world. If you have any suggestions of application areas i should focus on
> please let me know.
>
Larry -- good idea, I like to talk about that on Thu.
I come from a C++, Java background and started playing with python a
couple of months ago and really enjoy the short learning curve.
As for suggestions I can envision sorting/reporting features: e.g. my
first self-assignment was a module that filters/combines/extracts email
addresses from a selection of text files, showing unique and duplicate
addresses, or a diff of addresses between a master file and various text
files. I manage two listproc lists, with update requests originating from
different sources (DB, email address books, and email messages from
different accounts) -- w/o any automated script it was a nightmare to do
that manually.
That may be too much for a beginners class but learning how to process
files, with reporting & sorting is something useful to start with.
Also, the (largely) platform independence of python is a selling point!
- Horst
(I am on digest, so for quick response use my address in addition)
