Re: [Tutor] Use Python to learn kids (9 yr) to program

2006-11-29 Thread Senthil_OR
Andre Roberge wrote: > On 11/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Playing with Guido Van Robot http://gvr.sf.net is another good > option to teach programming to young ones. Rurple is just another > graphic representation of the gvr. > > > > Not quite. G

Re: [Tutor] Python Linux Distro Anyone

2006-11-29 Thread Amadeo Bellotti
Dave I looked at LAMP it really didn't have everything I need well more like want. I was thinking instead of Vi or emacs have a text editor written in python which would save a lot of space. Instead of lynx have one in python. On 11/29/06, Python <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-28 at

Re: [Tutor] OT What's next

2006-11-29 Thread Amadeo Bellotti
thank you to all I think I'm going to take on C maybe after i learn that take it to python and implement both at the same time. so step one choosing what language - done step two sites to learn anyone know where i can look up c programming for linux? On 11/29/06, Terry Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Tutor] OT What's next

2006-11-29 Thread R. Alan Monroe
> A couple of years ago, I took a course in which I built a rudimentary > computer around an Intel 8031 chip; and when I say "built," I mean built. > It was a couple dozen components on a breadboard, with about only about > 2Kbytes of memory, if I recall; I soldered or wire-wrapped every > conne

Re: [Tutor] OT What's next

2006-11-29 Thread Terry Carroll
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, R. Alan Monroe wrote: > > Pure assembler on a PC involves a huge amount of work for even > > the most trivial task. > > Some useful assembly tips here: > http://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm I never wanted to actually program assembly on the PC, but I did want to understand it

Re: [Tutor] Use Python to learn kids (9 yr) to program

2006-11-29 Thread R. Alan Monroe
> So my plan is to use Python, has anyone try to learn kids this way, and > could > giv som ide how-to. > I witch way to introduce every part of the language,,, http://davidbau.com/archives/2005/07/29/haaarg_world.html Alan ___ Tutor maillist - Tu

Re: [Tutor] OT What's next

2006-11-29 Thread R. Alan Monroe
> Pure assembler on a PC involves a huge amount of work for even > the most trivial task. Some useful assembly tips here: http://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm Alan ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Beautiful Soup

2006-11-29 Thread Shitiz Bansal
Thanks, urlparse.urljoin did the trick. Akash- the problem with directly prefixing url to the link is that the url most of the times contains not just the page address but also parameters and fragments. Andreas Kostyrka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Akash [061129 20:54]: > On 11/30/06, Shitiz Ba

Re: [Tutor] Use Python to learn kids (9 yr) to program

2006-11-29 Thread Andre Roberge
On 11/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Playing with Guido Van Robot http://gvr.sf.net is another good option to teach programming to young ones. Rurple is just another graphic representation of the gvr. Not quite. GvR uses a Python-like notation and has no OOP su

Re: [Tutor] Beautiful Soup

2006-11-29 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Akash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061129 20:54]: > On 11/30/06, Shitiz Bansal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using beautiful soup for extracting links from a web page. > > Most pages use relative links in their pages which is causing a problem. Is > > there any library to extract complete links or

Re: [Tutor] Beautiful Soup

2006-11-29 Thread Akash
On 11/30/06, Shitiz Bansal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using beautiful soup for extracting links from a web page. > Most pages use relative links in their pages which is causing a problem. Is > there any library to extract complete links or do i have to parse this > myself? > Beautiful Soup

[Tutor] Beautiful Soup

2006-11-29 Thread Shitiz Bansal
Hi, I am using beautiful soup for extracting links from a web page. Most pages use relative links in their pages which is causing a problem. Is there any library to extract complete links or do i have to parse this myself? Thanks, Shitiz Terry Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov

Re: [Tutor] OT What's next

2006-11-29 Thread Terry Carroll
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Alan Gauld wrote: > But for the Python programmer I'd consider Borland Delphi, based > on Pascal. Pascal is much more readable and Pythonic than C > and allows the same level of access to the underlying hardware > (and assembler when needed). I'm going to apologize for taking

[Tutor] Sun Location System

2006-11-29 Thread Carlos
Hi Again, I have been working in a sun location system and it seems like is working now. But I have two issues that I hope you can help me solve. I have a number of functions in this script and I would like to know which is the best way to pass values among them? Here is the script so far: ###

Re: [Tutor] Use Python to learn kids (9 yr) to program

2006-11-29 Thread Senthil_OR
Hi, Playing with Guido Van Robot http://gvr.sf.net is another good option to teach programming to young ones. Rurple is just another graphic representation of the gvr. -- Senthil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andre Rober

Re: [Tutor] Angles

2006-11-29 Thread Carlos
Thanks Terry and Roel, I got it working now, the problem was a sign situation. I fixed it this way: from math import * def Az(Lat, Dec, H_Ang): lat_R = radians(Lat) decl_R = radians(Dec) hour_R = radians(H_Ang) x_azm = sin(hour_R) * cos(decl_R)

Re: [Tutor] Python Linux Distro Anyone

2006-11-29 Thread Python
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 22:45 -0500, Amadeo Bellotti wrote: > I was thinking it would be really nice if i could make a Pocket Linux > distro that of course fits on one or two floppies (outdated I no but > still are amazing) thats just the Linux kernel, bash, and python. with > of course a lot of tiny

Re: [Tutor] Use Python to learn kids (9 yr) to program

2006-11-29 Thread Andre Roberge
HI- I think Python is a great choice. You may want to have a look, as a first step, at rur-ple. Then, as a next step (although it might be a bit steep), you may want to have a look at livewires . This will provide a good intr

[Tutor] Use Python to learn kids (9 yr) to program

2006-11-29 Thread Anders Persson
Hi! I have looked around for som language to use to learn my 9 year son programming. There is a KPL - Kids Programming Language but my son diden't grasp the OO, GUI and everyting around this, maby becurse English is not his spoken language, and for a beginner i think the inviroment was to comple

Re: [Tutor] Angles

2006-11-29 Thread Roel Schroeven
Carlos schreef: > I found a webpage that details the math behind this > (http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/mbs/tools/vrsolar/Help/solar_concepts.html) > > , it was fairly trivial to translate this to python until I got to the > azimuth equation. It looks like this: > > x_azm = sin(h

Re: [Tutor] WHy use SOAPpy if we can do the things using httplibmoduleRe: How to connect to the SOAP server and make arequest..........

2006-11-29 Thread Simon Brunning
On 11/28/06, Andreas Kostyrka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wimp! You can do it in binary machine code. Binary? You need ones *and* zeros? Loser. ;-) -- Cheers, Simon B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ ___ Tutor maillist -