Re: [Edu-sig] Which shell to use

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at schrieb: Some might prefer a monospaced font like the beautiful Liberation Mono (GNU General Public License) for instance. Using a non monospace font can be irritating sometimes concerning the indentation. I should check that

[Edu-sig] another IDE option

For those already using Visual Studio: http://pytools.codeplex.com/ Kirby not @ Pycon === roland garros to comp-lang-pyth. show details 9:49 PM (17 hours ago) Hi folks, A couple of Python OSS enthusiasts at msft have produced an add-in for Visual Studio that enables intellisense, browsing,

[Edu-sig] multiplying permutations

Source code for math-teach post by Kirby Urner / OST (c) GNU Public License, 2011 import string, random charset = list(string.ascii_lowercase + ) def make_perm( ): make some random permutation object mapping ,a-z into itself target = charset[:] # copy all random.shuffle(target)

Re: [Edu-sig] multiplying permutations

Here's some verbiage on math-teach giving some context for the just-posted source code: http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7403815tstart=0 There's a perennial thread on some math teaching groups as to whether multiplication should be conveyed as repeated addition, which often seems