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The Life of Python – 20 Greatest Monty Python Sketches. The Holy Grail of Python’s 20 most hilarious sketches, celebrating their 40th anniversary. This Anniversary Special marks the day that Monty Python made its sparkling debut on television when the very first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus was aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969.

The irresistible Oxbridge partnership of John Cleese , Eric Idle , Graham Chapman , Michael Palin and Terry Jones , mixed with the dazzlingly surreal artworks of American Terry Gilliam , celebrates four decades and 45 episodes of risqué silliness. The comedy of Monty Python was streaks ahead of its time. Python Application Development with Aptana PyDev » By Matthew Sacks » Featured, Python. Neopythonic. Skulpt.

Java and JavaScript Programming, by Richard G Baldwin. Ethiopian multiplication. Ethiopian multiplication You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know. A method of multiplying integers using only addition, doubling, and halving. Method: Take two numbers to be multiplied and write them down at the top of two columns. In the left-hand column repeatedly halve the last number, discarding any remainders, and write the result below the last in the same column, until you write a value of 1. In the right-hand column repeatedly double the last number and write the result below. stop when you add a result in the same row as where the left hand column shows 1. For example: 17 × 34 Halving the first column: Doubling the second column: Strike-out rows whose first cell is even: Sum the remaining numbers in the right-hand column: So 17 multiplied by 34, by the Ethiopian method is 578.

The task is to define three named functions/methods/procedures/subroutines: References [edit] ACL2 [edit] ActionScript Output: ex. [edit] Ada Output: World of Change: Global Temperatures : Feature Articles. The world is getting warmer.

World of Change: Global Temperatures : Feature Articles

Whether the cause is human activity or natural variability—and the preponderance of evidence says it’s humans—thermometer readings all around the world have risen steadily since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. (Click on dates above to step through the decades.) According to an ongoing temperature analysis conducted by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and shown in this series of maps, the average global temperature on Earth has increased by about 0.8°Celsius (1.4°Fahrenheit) since 1880.

Two-thirds of the warming has occurred since 1975, at a rate of roughly 0.15-0.20°C per decade. But why should we care about one degree of warming? The global temperature record represents an average over the entire surface of the planet. A one-degree global change is significant because it takes a vast amount of heat to warm all the oceans, atmosphere, and land by that much. References Hansen, J., R. How to recognise a good programmer. It’s not as easy as it sounds.

How to recognise a good programmer

CV experience is only of limited use here, because great programmers don’t always have the “official” experience to demonstrate that they’re great. In fact, a lot of that CV experience can be misleading. Yet there are a number of subtle cues that you can get, even from the CV, to figure out whether someone’s a great programmer. Weezo - Developers. Tutorial - Learn Python in 10 minutes. NOTE: If you would like some Python development done, my company, Stochastic Technologies, is available for consulting.

Tutorial - Learn Python in 10 minutes

This tutorial is available as a short ebook. The e-book features extra content from follow-up posts on various Python best practices, all in a convenient, self-contained format. All future updates are free for people who purchase it. Preliminary fluff So, you want to learn the Python programming language but can't find a concise and yet full-featured tutorial.

Properties Python is strongly typed (i.e. types are enforced), dynamically, implicitly typed (i.e. you don't have to declare variables), case sensitive (i.e. var and VAR are two different variables) and object-oriented (i.e. everything is an object). Getting help Help in Python is always available right in the interpreter. >>> help(5)Help on int object:(etc etc) >>> dir(5)['__abs__', '__add__', ...] >>> abs. Syntax Python has no mandatory statement termination characters and blocks are specified by indentation. Strings.