Re: [Tutor] Looking for an edutainment-type introduction to programming book

2006-09-29 Thread Danny Yoo
> What I am looking for is a book thats: > > 1) simple, and fun enough so that he can learn from it without my > continous assistence. (Of course, I can answer questions, but the idea > is that I don't want to walk him through all of it.) > > 2) doesn't look like it is teaching programming -- it sh

[Tutor] Better way to substitute text?

2006-09-29 Thread William Allison
Hi, Just learning Python, on chapter 6 of Learning Python 2nd Ed. So, on to the question. Is there a better way to implement the code below? It scans a saved html file and highlights certain keywords is a bold, red font. It works, but I suppose I'm wondering if it's the "Pythonic" way. Thanks

Re: [Tutor] python text adventures question

2006-09-29 Thread doug shawhan
Whoops, the password is 'ascii'. :-) Guess I could just take that off, couldn't I? On 9/29/06, Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: doug shawhan wrote:> I got a copy of Creating Adventure Games on Your Computer in the mail > yesterday.>> Very fun! I set up a moodle class for the project. I

Re: [Tutor] python text adventures question

2006-09-29 Thread Luke Paireepinart
doug shawhan wrote: > I got a copy of Creating Adventure Games on Your Computer in the mail > yesterday. > > Very fun! I set up a moodle class for the project. It seems like a > good way to do such a thing. > > http://crackrabbit.com/moodle/ > > I realize that I am probably not anyone's idea of a

Re: [Tutor] python text adventures question

2006-09-29 Thread doug shawhan
I got a copy of Creating Adventure Games on Your Computer in the mail yesterday. Very fun! I set up a moodle class for the project. It seems like a good way to do such a thing. http://crackrabbit.com/moodle/ I realize that I am probably not anyone's idea of a programming howto writer, but hey!

Re: [Tutor] Looking for an edutainment-type introduction to programming book

2006-09-29 Thread Kent Johnson
Abel Daniel wrote: > Hi! > > I'm looking for a book to give to my younger brother as a birthday > present. He is 13 years old, had some experience with logo (but not > much, so he knows about simple instructions and loops, but not about, > say, algorithms), and is fairly comfortable around compute

Re: [Tutor] Looking for an edutainment-type introduction to programming book

2006-09-29 Thread Marc Poulin
Look here: www.ceebot.com Not a book, but it might be what you are looking for. --- Abel Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm looking for a book to give to my younger brother > as a birthday > present. He is 13 years old, had some experience > with logo (but not > much, so he kno

Re: [Tutor] Looking for an edutainment-type introduction to programming book

2006-09-29 Thread tomd
If he is into games, you could try to look at Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, from Michael Dawson. It teaches Python through programming a set of simple games. -- Tom, http://www.vscripts.net on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:54:32 +0200, you wrote: > 1) simple, and fun enough so that he can

[Tutor] Looking for an edutainment-type introduction to programming book

2006-09-29 Thread Abel Daniel
Hi! I'm looking for a book to give to my younger brother as a birthday present. He is 13 years old, had some experience with logo (but not much, so he knows about simple instructions and loops, but not about, say, algorithms), and is fairly comfortable around computers. He sometimes mentions that

Re: [Tutor] what.built-in

2006-09-29 Thread Liam Clarke
jim stockford wrote: > from > http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html > some functions are always available--the built-in functions. > > (from elsewhere) everything in python is an object. > > > > hey, from abs() to zip() there's type() and super() and str() > and setatt

Re: [Tutor] what.built-in

2006-09-29 Thread Kent Johnson
jim stockford wrote: > from > http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html > some functions are always available--the built-in functions. > > (from elsewhere) everything in python is an object. > > > > hey, from abs() to zip() there's type() and super() and str() > and set

[Tutor] what.built-in

2006-09-29 Thread jim stockford
from http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html some functions are always available--the built-in functions. (from elsewhere) everything in python is an object. hey, from abs() to zip() there's type() and super() and str() and setattr() and ... dir() and... they're the