On 01/10/13 02:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Ah, no I think I see what Rafael is trying to do! I remember those old
BASIC listings from the 1970s where the first thing the program did was
print out a page and a half of introductory text telling you what the
program did and what commands to give to
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 03:00:08PM +0200, Rafael Knuth wrote:
> I mean, my giant print
> statement was really ridiculous to say the least but it did what I
> wanted the program to do - adding items to the To Do List and printing
> that list.
But no it didn't! It just *printed* stuff you wanted t
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:30:55PM +0200, Rafael Knuth wrote:
> I am still hoping that I will get some feedback from anyone on that
> list that will help me make a tiny little next step.
Be bold! Be adventurous! You don't need baby steps, this is not like
climbing Mount Everest without oxygen! I
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:12:49PM +0200, Rafael Knuth wrote:
> Hej there,
>
> @Alan @Joel:
> I didn't know that pouring corn on newbies is the purpose of a tutor
> mailing list.
The word you want is "scorn", not corn.
> I do not understand why you don't consider what I wrote not a program
> ("
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:43:57AM +0100, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 29/09/13 21:42, Rafael Knuth wrote:
>
> >iteration. I know my program is super cheesy & primitive, but I don’t
> >care, it does what I expect it to do,
>
> Really? You wrote a program that printed out a different
> program to the on
On 30/09/13 12:12, Rafael Knuth wrote:
@Alan @Joel:
I didn't know that pouring corn on newbies
We weerenm't pouring corn, we were pointing out that the program you
claimed to have working as a ToDo list did no such thing. It doesn't add
anmy items it doesn't store it doesn;t retriebe. All it
On 30/9/2013 09:00, Rafael Knuth wrote:
> Hej Dave,
>
> thank you for your response.
>
>> Your original program had some code that interacted with the user. So
>> when you went from that to a giant print statement, I, and proably many
>> others, thought you were just kidding.
>
> I noticed that,
Dominik,
> OTOH, *if* your claim that you understand the concepts mentioned by Dave
> isn't an ill-minded overestimation, I wonder why you don't go and use
> these skills. Doyou lack a concept of how to logically build up your
> code, or what's the main issue?
Exactly. I didn't know how to put th
Hi Rafael,
> > Your original program had some code that interacted with the user. So
> > when you went from that to a giant print statement, I, and proably many
> > others, thought you were just kidding.
>
> I noticed that, but I was serious about that. I mean, my giant print
> statement was rea
Hej Dave,
thank you for your response.
> Your original program had some code that interacted with the user. So
> when you went from that to a giant print statement, I, and proably many
> others, thought you were just kidding.
I noticed that, but I was serious about that. I mean, my giant print
On 30/9/2013 07:47, Rafael Knuth wrote:
> Dominik,
>
> this was my original question:
>
> As of now, I want to understand how I can add
> further functionalities to my program such as: appending items to the
> list, removing and replacing items. Can anyone help?
>
> Simple as that.
>
Your origina
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Rafael Knuth wrote:
> Dominik,
>
> this was my original question:
>
> As of now, I want to understand how I can add
> further functionalities to my program such as: appending items to the
> list, removing and replacing items. Can anyone help?
>
> Simple as that.
>
Dominik,
this was my original question:
As of now, I want to understand how I can add
further functionalities to my program such as: appending items to the
list, removing and replacing items. Can anyone help?
Simple as that.
Rafael
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Dominik George wrote:
>
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>Dominik,
>
>> it's not your program - it's your attitude. We expect you to learn
>for yourself as well, and putting the commands you output into a script
>and execute it clearly isn't beyond what we can expect from someone w
Dominik,
> it's not your program - it's your attitude. We expect you to learn for
> yourself as well, and putting the commands you output into a script and
> execute it clearly isn't beyond what we can expect from someone who can use a
> mail program.
Thanks for the clarification, you were the
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Rafael Knuth schrieb:
>Hej there,
>
>@Alan @Joel:
>I didn't know that pouring corn on newbies is the purpose of a tutor
>mailing list.
>Why don't you try writing a program instead? Why don't you use the cat
>interpreter instead?
>I tried my best a
Hej there,
@Alan @Joel:
I didn't know that pouring corn on newbies is the purpose of a tutor
mailing list.
Why don't you try writing a program instead? Why don't you use the cat
interpreter instead?
I tried my best and that's what I came up with, and I am eager to
learn form experienced programmer
On 29/09/13 21:42, Rafael Knuth wrote:
iteration. I know my program is super cheesy & primitive, but I don’t
care, it does what I expect it to do,
Really? You wrote a program that printed out a different
program to the one you ran and that's what you wanted?
It doesn't do anything about creati
On 29/09/13 22:09, Joel Goldstick wrote:
mysql comes with python, and you can learn the basics over a weekend
using the interactive tool that comes with it.
I assume you meant SQLite comes with python?
MySql is a download...
--
Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Walter Prins wrote:
> On 29 September 2013 22:09, Joel Goldstick wrote:
>
>> mysql comes with python, and you can learn the basics over a weekend
>> using the interactive tool that comes with it.
>>
>
> Just a minor errata: I'm sure Joel meant to write "sqlite",
On 29 September 2013 22:09, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> mysql comes with python, and you can learn the basics over a weekend using
> the interactive tool that comes with it.
>
Just a minor errata: I'm sure Joel meant to write "sqlite", not "mysql".
(SQLite is indeed included with Python, the latte
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Rafael Knuth wrote:
> Hej there,
>
> I am writing a to do list program in Python 3.0.
>
> Earlier this week, I shared my first iteration on the mailing list,
> and the feedback was that I should learn how to create, write to and
> read from a text file – which I di
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>Hej there,
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>I am writing a to do list program in Python 3.0.
>
>Earlier this week, I shared my first iteration on the mailing list,
>and the feedback was that I should learn how to create, write to and
>read from a text fi
Hej there,
I am writing a to do list program in Python 3.0.
Earlier this week, I shared my first iteration on the mailing list,
and the feedback was that I should learn how to create, write to and
read from a text file – which I did. Below please find my second
iteration. I know my program is sup
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