Danny Yoo wrote:
There seems to be a fashionable push to introduce patterns early on in
computer science education, perhaps because they are easy to put in as
test questions.
But despite this, I do think that there are some patterns that are worth
seeing, even if they are in unrealistic toy situati
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Kooser, Ara S wrote:
>They picked a project to model the flow of smallpox in a city and
> surroundings areas. So I saw the game of life and thought maybe they
> could modify it for use as a smallpox model.
Hi Ara,
Oh! My apologies for not posting the file as a comple
> > Just as a warning, none of what I'm going to code here is original at
> > all: I'm rehashing a main idea off of a paper called "Using the Game
> > of Life to Introduce Freshman Students to the Power and Elegance of
> > Design Patterns":
> >
> > http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=103529
Kooser, Ara S said unto the world upon 2005-01-05 10:15:
This is most likely a silly question and me not understanding python
enough. I am a mentor for some high school kids participating in a
supercomputing challenge. My background in programming is F77 (yeah
laugh it up) and I want the kids to
You need to include the line
import random
at the beginning of your program. This gives you access to the contents of the 'random' module such
as random.choice().
This chapter of the tutorial talks about modules:
http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html
Kent
Kooser, Ara S wrote:
This is most like
This is most likely a silly question and me not understanding python
enough. I am a mentor for some high school kids participating in a
supercomputing challenge. My background in programming is F77 (yeah
laugh it up) and I want the kids to learn python and use it for the
challenge.
They pick
Danny Yoo wrote:
(Aside: one nonobvious example where copying can be avoided is in
Conway's Game of Life: when we calculate what cells live and die in
the next generation, we can actually use the 'Command' design pattern
to avoid making a temporary copy of the world. We can talk about
this in mor
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Brian van den Broek wrote:
> >> (Aside: one nonobvious example where copying can be avoided is in
> >> Conway's Game of Life: when we calculate what cells live and die in
> >> the next generation, we can actually use the 'Command' design pattern
> >> to avoid making a tempor
