[Tutor] simon says

2012-09-10 Thread Matthew Ngaha
hi guy my book has set me an assignment of a simon says game but i don't really understand what it's asking me to do. here's the text: write a version of the simon says game where a player has to repeat an ever-growing, random sequence of colours and sounds using the keyboard. Anyone understand

Re: [Tutor] simon says

2012-09-10 Thread Matthew Ngaha
You should read up on the Simon Says rules and such. It's an established, old game. Once you get that, then work on replicating it through software. thanks for your input. i understand Simon Says. I'm just struggling to see the connection with the assignment. a sequence of colours and sounds

Re: [Tutor] simon says

2012-09-10 Thread Matthew Ngaha
hi guy my book has set me an assignment of a simon says game but i don't really understand what it's asking me to do. here's the text: It's the last chapter of Python Prgogramming for the absolute beginner. they have covered all the basics. Even simple tkinter apps and Pygame games. If i

Re: [Tutor] simon says

2012-09-10 Thread Matthew Ngaha
This seems less about simon says the social game, and more about simon, the 1980s electronic toy. That toy had four colored buttons that would light up in a sequence, playing a tone for each color. The player would then have to press the buttons in the same sequence. The game would then

Re: [Tutor] I Need Help - further details now provided.

2012-09-09 Thread Matthew Ngaha
SORRY i wrote to you not the mailing list:( im a beginner myself, and those instructions seem very complicated for me. But i did install Python and everything included with no problem. You need at least Python 3.1 for this book we have. its what the author recommended. version 2.7 as you have

[Tutor] web frameworks

2012-09-09 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Hi all, i had a recent post about learning about guis and web applications. i decided to try guis 1st, but i also decided that maybe a very very very simple web framework would not be too much work for me to study once in while. I decided on Flask because i read it's the simpliest framework out

Re: [Tutor] web frameworks

2012-09-09 Thread Matthew Ngaha
sorry steven i keep replying to sender and not tutor:( ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] I Need Help - further details now provided.

2012-09-09 Thread Matthew Ngaha
What instructions are you talking about? I'm sure that was very clear in your head when you wrote that, but think about how it looks to us. We could be reading your email hours, days, even months later. We see your comment about complicated instructions, but all context is lost and we have

Re: [Tutor] web frameworks

2012-09-09 Thread Matthew Ngaha
thanks for all the help guys. Cherrypy it is. i will take a look at some cgi tutorials first, as Alan suggested, to get a good understanding of how things work. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: [Tutor] I need Help

2012-09-08 Thread Matthew Ngaha
this is the same book i bought a few months ago to get me started. the instructions i remember where clear for windows. if there is a problem with the download files on the site, the author has the files on his own site also: http://www.programgames.com/page4.html save or run the file, once

Re: [Tutor] help me decide

2012-09-06 Thread Matthew Ngaha
hey guys i just like to thank everyone for their input. Its really helped me in deciding a lot of things. also @ Alan i think? as ive started writing this mail it won;t let me look up previous senders but thanks for your input. Also your field of work sounds very interesting indeed. I can't dare

Re: [Tutor] help me decide

2012-09-05 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Hi Alan thanks so much for your helpful answers. probably wxPython or GTk But if you want to get serious about GUIs I'd probably suggest wxPython instead - it ultimately is more powerful and complete and if you are only just starting will be easy to learn whereas learning Tkinter and

[Tutor] help me decide

2012-09-04 Thread Matthew Ngaha
hey guys as i program more, i think of silly questions i would like answers to. if anyone doesnt mind entertaining my question, please do answer:) I have just about finished my beginner tutorial, just a few exercises left. i feel confident using Python now but im still not sure which direction i

Re: [Tutor] help me decide

2012-09-04 Thread Matthew Ngaha
sorry wrong i didnt send mail right. hey i didnt explain it properly, i wasn't asking what language to use or learn. I am only going to be using Python. I meant whic area to study on 1st, GUI programing e.g Tkinter or Programming with a web framwork e.g Django.

Re: [Tutor] help me decide

2012-09-04 Thread Matthew Ngaha
hey you didnt read my question:( i dont enjoy either because i have no experience with them. so im asking questions about peoples personal experiences with the 2 areas which can give me further information to research on. ___ Tutor maillist -

[Tutor] calculation issue.

2012-08-26 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Hi guys ive been reading a beginners book on python and the author created a simple game with the liewires package. I understand the explaination but there is just 1 part that i don't quite get. I'm not great at maths but this isn't complex at all. i don't know if i should post the whole code,

Re: [Tutor] calculation issue.

2012-08-26 Thread Matthew Ngaha
thanks guys. Eryksun your explaination was brilliant and clear. i understood what you explained but got a bit confused with this line: The bottom of the next pizza is at y = 100 + 100 = 200 if this Pizza (pizza.b) was on hold at position y = 100 and the previous pizza(pizza.a) had fallen an

Re: [Tutor] Error message...

2012-08-25 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Hi Victoria. im a total beginner aswell but i noticed something. shouldnt this line: else: return s(0) == s(-1) and isPalindrome (s[1:-1]) be else: return s[0] == s[-1] and isPalindrome (s[1:-1]) it looks like you have the string s as a function which you are trying to call. what you wanted

[Tutor] newbie Questions

2012-07-16 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Hi all. I'm new to Python and Programming in general. I've started out with Python for beginners, and so far so good. My friend who i might add, is not a programmer but has had experience in the world of programming (i dont know how much but he claims a lot), has told me to forget about Python and

Re: [Tutor] newbie Questions

2012-07-16 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Zani alexandre.z...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Matthew Ngaha chigga...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I'm new to Python and Programming in general. I've started out with Python for beginners, and so far so good. My friend who i might add, is not a programmer but has had

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