My future colleague, Bill Punch at MSU, is teaching Python to intro CS students. He asks (slightly edited):
In C++, you can write multiple constructors, each one taking a different type and/or number of arguments. Let's say we are writing a RationalNumber class. I could write 2 constructors:
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A long time ago, Kalid Azad sent me an e-mail about his Visual Guide to Version Control. Good stuff!
--titus
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Posted by Kalid on 2007-12-09 at 15:01.
Hi Titus, thanks for the mention, I hope your readers find it useful.
Posted by Chris Lasher on 2007-12-09 at …
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If anyone is having a Python Interest Group meeting this month, please consider devoting 15-30 minutes to coming up with random task ideas for the Google Highly Open Participation Contest.
Briefly,
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- tasks must involve Python and Open Source;
- non-core pet projects are welcome;
- building screencasts, updating documentation, and adding unit …
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My Computer Science department at Michigan State University is looking for an assistant professor! We are casting a fairly wide net (databases, graphics, medical imaging, and bioinformatics) but I'd really like to attract a bioinformatician.
The Computer Science department at MSU is a nice, small department …
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Hi folks,
just a quick note -- Kumar McMillan has offered to take over wsgi_intercept. You can see the new project over at code.google.com, http://code.google.com/p/wsgi-intercept/.
While I will miss the income from the project, I think that Kumar will treat it well.
--titus
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I'm going through some of my saved up e-mail from the last few months, and found these two gems.
Noah Gift on grokking threads, from the testing-in-python list:
Trying to understand what massive pools of threads that spawn other massive spools of threads, that spawn other massive pools of threads …read more
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Here are some factoids about the GHOP/Python project, from the end of the first 30 hours.
Of 63 tasks, 32 remain unclaimed.
26 tasks have been claimed by students and are being worked on; some of those are nearing completion.
5 have already been completed: all three Rosetta Code …
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