Hugh Stewart wrote:
snip
Python gives us a programming language of extraordinary productivity
at all levels of programming (especially for beginners).
Exactly.
Peter Chase
Alpine, TX
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On 9/10/06, Hugh Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To cut to the chase: raw_input() provides an extremely useful
I/O function for simple exercise type problems which are so essential
in building a beginners repertoire of programming techniques and
for 'John Zeller' type problems ( simple quick
On 12 Sep 2006 at 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To cut to the chase: raw_input() provides an extremely useful
I/O function for simple exercise type problems which are so essential
in building a beginners repertoire of programming techniques and
for 'John Zeller' type problems ( simple quick
On 9/8/06, Joshua Zucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/8/06, kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the model today is a person writing code for him or herself
i.e. self as client -- at least in an early context. We're not
guiding the unknowing through a menu tree. We're computer
On 9/12/06, kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Top-to-bottom executable scripting, with maybe forks in the road, as in:
dumb_user_says = raw_input(yes or no?: )
and likely no going back if you answer it wrong:
confirm = raw_input(are you sure??)
... is a style we don't really
On 9/9/06, kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But that's just [our] stars in the sky style over in Buckyville. We
have these weird slogans, like YOU be the glue. Brad says our
private sky is NOT THE WORLD in his posts. He sounds like a
philosopher. Some other castle somewhere, where
On 9/12/06, Jan Claeys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Op za, 09-09-2006 te 17:53 -0700, schreef Radenski, Atanas:
Strictly speaking this is true, but Mr. Stroustrups own papers also
explain how important the full C/C++ compatibility is - and that
achieving it is his ideal
Well, strictly
On 9/12/06, Joshua Zucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the point is that a C programmer can start writing C++
programs without having to change anything -- legal C programs will
still run just fine in C++. Then the C programmer can gradually learn
whatever parts of the extensions of C++
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Op za, 09-09-2006 te 17:53 -0700, schreef Radenski,
Hi all,
I was going to do like John Zelle, and stop contributing to this
point, but I have a lot less discipline than he does.
A while ago, out of curiosity I bought Python programming for the
absolute beginner by Michael Dawson to see his approach as it is
considered an extremely
On 9/12/06, Andre Roberge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yet, I think it is a mistake to remove it (as I have stated before).
To those that disagree, I would ask: how do you propose in concrete
terms (not pie-in-the-sky) to replace Zelle`s book, Dawson's book and
How to think like a computer
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