Re: Combing Medusa's Hair... (Design Pattern)

2010-12-14 Thread kirby urner
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Kushal Kumaran kushal.kumaran+pyt...@gmail.com wrote: snip In this design pattern, you have something like a dry cleaner's, where people submit jobs at the counter, and go away right away with a ticket (Python returns -- but keeps running).  When they come

Re: Packages at Python.org

2010-12-01 Thread kirby urner
Good to hear from you sir. I've enjoying working with your modules and am getting some good results. I sent you a note off-list wondering how actively you might be supporting this valuable utility. Encouraging to find you here so quickly. Kirby On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Ethan Furman

Re: [Edu-sig] [ANNC] pynguin-0.7 (python turtle graphics application)

2010-04-11 Thread kirby urner
2010/4/11 Lee Harr miss...@hotmail.com: Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and     graphics display area. I like the idea of using turtles to plot graphs. Replacing graphing calculators with Python is easier when there

Re: [Edu-sig] odd drawing problem with turtle.py

2010-02-01 Thread kirby urner
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Brian Blais bbl...@bryant.edu wro I don't see where you've defined a Turtle class to instantiate sir. Turtle is given in turtle.py. I should have subclassed it, but I was being lazy. :) thanks for the fast replies! bb No obvious need to

Re: [Edu-sig] odd drawing problem with turtle.py

2010-01-31 Thread kirby urner
I don't see where you've defined a Turtle class to instantiate sir. Perhaps rename Circle to Turtle and rewrite the circle-drawing expression as: c=Turtle(randint(-350,350),randint(-250,250),10,red) You are making progress with a wrapper class for the Standard Library turtle. That's a

Re: [Edu-sig] odd drawing problem with turtle.py

2010-01-31 Thread kirby urner
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Vern Ceder vce...@canterburyschool.org wrote: kirby urner wrote: I don't see where you've defined a Turtle class to instantiate sir. The Turtle class is part of the turtle library, so that's not an issue. Hey, good point Vern, not firing on all cylinders

Re: [Edu-sig] some turtle questions

2010-01-25 Thread kirby urner
Hi Brian -- If you wanna go to a lot of work, but not a huge amount, write wrapper class for the Standard Library turtle that intercepts its commands and updates an on-board data structure, representing pixels x pixels, specifying self position, keep color info stashed per each one. That's a lot

Re: [Edu-sig] teaching python using turtle module

2009-12-01 Thread kirby urner
that much strong thanks to you. Kirby [1] Eber, Dorothy Harley. Genius At Work. about AGB is one of my fave syllabus entries, obscure and fun. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:52 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at wrote

Re: [Edu-sig] teaching python using turtle module

2009-11-30 Thread kirby urner
I'm glad turtle graphics intersected my thinking re extended precision decimals (Decimal type) on edu-sig just now. I've updated my tmods.py to contain a turtle rendering the plane-net of a T-mod: http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/tmod.py (runnable source)

Re: [Edu-sig] teaching python using turtle module

2009-11-30 Thread kirby urner
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at wrote: fascinating code Hoping, you will find this a bit interesting, best regards Gregor Really enlightening, both mathematically and from a coding point of view. I hadn't used turtle.py enough yet to know about the

Re: [Edu-sig] teaching python using turtle module

2009-11-29 Thread kirby urner
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: snip Drunkard's Walk. If our think tank (isepp.org) could have gotten permission, we'd have used that Monopoly guy (looks kinda like Planters peanut guy) randomly walking on like some chess board with a lamp post

Re: newbie question: if var1 == var2:

2008-11-29 Thread kirby urner
It's the newline after each word that's messing you up. var = tree\n ... or if item.strip() == var: ... etc. Kirby On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 7:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I dont understand why the following code never finds tree. I could not find the answer in the Python

Re: [Edu-sig] do as a keyword

2007-12-12 Thread kirby urner
I find that when teaching beginning programmers, they usually think in until terms, and not while terms. If really beginning, an overview of this whole idea of control structures makes sense, such as this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_flow Then explain how Python is

Re: fclient project seeking co-coders

2007-10-28 Thread kirby urner
Another Urner, that's interesting. Not many of us. Kirby Urner Portland, Oregon USA On 10/28/07, Jürgen Urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I Just recently registered a project fclient to sourceforge.net [http://sourceforge.net/projects/fclient]. fclient is intended to become

Re: New mailing list mirrors

2007-06-10 Thread kirby urner
Thanks tomer, I joined both through Google. Kirby moe Urner 4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html myspace.com/4dstudios [EMAIL PROTECTED] (moe rhymes with Minister of Education was my thinking -- a portfolio I sometimes grab for a gig, but always put back where I found it). On 6/10/07, sebulba [EMAIL

Re: [Edu-sig] minimum age to learn python (a.k.a graphical vs text languages)

2007-03-10 Thread kirby urner
questions about others' experience Is it no big deal either way? thanks, Brian Blais Hi Brian -- Lego Mindstorms is popular in my neck of the woods (Silicon Forest -- Oregon), starting in middle school. I helped coach a team a few years ago.

Re: [Edu-sig] minimum age to learn python (a.k.a graphical vs text languages)

2007-03-10 Thread kirby urner
On 3/10/07, Andreas Raab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kirby urner wrote: I just talked to the computer teacher yesterday and he was reporting some rumor that future versions of Alice will center around the same Sims as in Sims, which my daughter plays with *a lot* (we also bought Civ City