On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:43 PM, John Ladasky john_lada...@sbcglobal.netwrote:
Hi folks,
No, I'm not asking for YOU to help ME with a Python homework assignment!
Previously, I mentioned that I was starting to teach my son Python.
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Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM, John Ladasky
john_lada...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I think that they're disappointed when I show them how much they have to
understand just to write a program that
On Thursday 18 July 2013 09:04:32 Albert van der Horst did opine:
In article mailman.4786.1374021635.3114.python-l...@python.org,
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM, John Ladasky
john_lada...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I think that they're disappointed
Not to open Pandora's box or anything, but are you aware of the Roguelike
community (subculture?) (cult?) of game development? Rogue was an old
text-based role playing game for Unix, text-based in the sense that it used
the console as a 2D map and ASCII characters as graphics. There has been
On 17/07/2013 8:43 AM, John Ladasky wrote:
The kids all claim to be interested. They all want to write the next great 3D
video game. Thus, I'm a little surprised that the kids don't actually try to
sit down and code without me prompting them. I think that they're disappointed
when I show
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:43:45 -0700, John Ladasky wrote:
The kids all claim to be interested. They all want to write the next
great 3D video game. Thus, I'm a little surprised that the kids don't
actually try to sit down and code without me prompting them. I think
that they're disappointed
On 16 July 2013 23:43, John Ladasky john_lada...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Well, a few other parents caught wind of what I was doing with my son, and
they asked me whether I could tutor their kids, too. I accepted the jobs
(for pay, actually).
The kids all claim to be interested. They all
On 17 jul 2013, at 08:35, alex23 wrote:
On 17/07/2013 8:43 AM, John Ladasky wrote:
The kids all claim to be interested. They all want to write the next great
3D video game. Thus, I'm a little surprised that the kids don't actually
try to sit down and code without me prompting them. I
On 2013-07-16, John Ladasky john_lada...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
So, what I am seeking are suggestions for programming
assignments that I can give to brand-new students of Python.
Please keep in mind that none of them are even up to the task
of a simple algorithm like Bubble Sort -- at least, not
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:
Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but
you'd need a huge list of names broken into syllables from
somewhere.
You could use names broken into letters... or skip the notion of names
and just
On 2013-07-17, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:
Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but
you'd need a huge list of names broken into syllables from
somewhere.
You could use names broken into
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:
On 2013-07-17, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:
Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but
you'd need a huge list of names
On 17/07/2013 11:29 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:
Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but
you'd need a huge list of names broken into syllables from
somewhere.
You could use names broken into
On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 4:13:45 AM UTC+5:30, John Ladasky wrote:
Hi folks,
No, I'm not asking for YOU to help ME with a Python homework assignment!
Previously, I mentioned that I was starting to teach my son Python.
You have to utilize a set curriculum to teach. Look at several books like
Dive Into Python, and such, then work with the student on an individualized
project for each one. For 3D you go with pygame and trig, or go with
Blender's python API
or matplotlib. Just at first show the basic types of
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM, John Ladasky
john_lada...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I think that they're disappointed when I show them how much they have to
understand just to write a program that plays Tic Tac Toe.
The disillusionment of every novice programmer, I think. It starts out
as I want
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM, John Ladasky
john_lada...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I think that they're disappointed when I show them how much they have to
understand just to write a program that plays Tic Tac Toe.
The
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Joel Goldstick
joel.goldst...@gmail.com wrote:
There is a book : http://inventwithpython.com/ Invent Your Own Computer
Games with Python
which claims to teach people to program games in python. I haven't read it,
but it seems to be for beginning programmers.
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