Re: Homework help requested, thanks to everyone.

2013-07-22 Thread Skip Montanaro
John> Another project I thought of was a Pig Latin translator. (But do kids today John> even know what Pig Latin is? Am I showing my age?) Chris> Even if they don't, they'll grok it no problem. It's simple enough. Google for "Python pig latin" to see a lot of "prior art". And it might be usefu

RE: Homework help requested, thanks to everyone.

2013-07-21 Thread Joseph Clark
al dependencies. // joseph w. clark , phd , visiting research associate \\ university of nebraska at omaha - college of IS&T > Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:49:40 -0700 > Subject: Homework help requested, thanks to everyone. > From: john_lada...@sbcglobal.net > To: python-list@python.org &g

Re: Homework help requested, thanks to everyone.

2013-07-21 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:49 AM, John Ladasky > wrote: > > Another project I thought of was a Pig Latin translator. (But do kids > > today even know what Pig Latin is? Am I showing my age?) > > > Even if they don't, they'll grok it no problem. It's simp

Re: Homework help requested, thanks to everyone.

2013-07-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:49 AM, John Ladasky wrote: > Another project I thought of was a Pig Latin translator. (But do kids today > even know what Pig Latin is? Am I showing my age?) Even if they don't, they'll grok it no problem. It's simple enough. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Homework help requested, thanks to everyone.

2013-07-21 Thread John Ladasky
Thanks to everyone for their wealth of suggestions. I already had my students playing with turtle. And I had asked them to alphabetize a string (without having previously revealed the sorted() function). So far, I have taken up the suggestion of the number-guessing game. One of my students h