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46 Simple Python Exercises This is version 0.45 of a collection of simple Python exercises constructed (but in many cases only found and collected) by Torbjörn Lager (torbjorn.lager@ling.gu.se). Most of them involve characters, words and phrases, rather than numbers, and are therefore suitable for students interested in language rather than math. Very simple exercises Higher order functions and list comprehensions Simple exercises including I/O Somewhat harder exercises A sentence splitter is a program capable of splitting a text into sentences.
colabora com Living PlanIT no desenvolvimento de uma cidade sustentável, inteligente e interligada Comunicado de Imprensa, 28 Junho 2010 A Cisco Systems, Inc., anunciou hoje a assinatura estratégica de uma carta de intenções com a Living PlanIT, companhia líder em tecnologia urbana focada no desenvolvimento e operações urbanas sustentáveis. A carta de intenções compreende a colaboração entre duas empresas visionárias, juntando o conhecimento, as soluções e as capacidades tecnológicas de ambas as empresas com o objectivo de desenvolverem comunidades inteligentes e sustentáveis no futuro. A parceria estratégica é construída mediante a visão partilhada de urbanização sustentável, combinando as arquitecturas da Cisco® Smart+Connected Communities e a tecnologia da Living PlanIT que vai ser aplicada e implementada no desenvolvimento e nas operações do PlanIT Valley, uma comunidade inteligente e sustentável do Município de Paredes, no norte de Portugal, num projecto classificado pelo Governo Português de Potencial Interesse Nacional (PIN). Destaques: Ver mais notícias
Why talent is overrated - Oct. 21, 2008 (Fortune Magazine) -- It is mid-1978, and we are inside the giant Procter & Gamble headquarters in Cincinnati, looking into a cubicle shared by a pair of 22-year-old men, fresh out of college. Their assignment is to sell Duncan Hines brownie mix, but they spend a lot of their time just rewriting memos. They are clearly smart - one has just graduated from Harvard, the other from Dartmouth - but that doesn't distinguish them from a slew of other new hires at P&G. What does distinguish them from many of the young go-getters the company takes on each year is that neither man is particularly filled with ambition. Neither has any kind of career plan. Every afternoon they play waste-bin basketball with wadded-up memos. These two young men are of interest to us now for only one reason: They are Jeffrey Immelt and Steven Ballmer, who before age 50 would become CEOs of two of the world's most valuable corporations, General Electric (GE, Fortune 500) and Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500).
Five mini programming projects for the Python beginner After Shelly wrote this post, Webucator, a company that provides Python training, volunteered to create solutions for these projects. They've made a series of videos that'll help you out if you need it. Learning a new programming language is both the most exciting and the most humbling experience. For me, that language has recently been Python, which I’ve been learning over these last few months. With that in mind, here are five mini programming projects to get you started on learning Python. 1. The Goal: Like the title suggests, this project involves writing a program that simulates rolling dice. Concepts to keep in mind: RandomIntegerPrintWhile Loops A good project for beginners, this project will help establish a solid foundation for basic concepts. 2. The Goal: Similar to the first project, this project also uses the random module in Python. 3. The Goal: Inspired by Summer Son’s Mad Libs project with Javascript. 4. The Goal: Remember Adventure? 5.
Kludget Widget Engine Logorrhea (psychology) In psychology, logorrhea or logorrhoea (from Ancient Greek λόγος logos and ῥέω rheo "to flow") is a communication disorder, sometimes classified as a mental illness, resulting in excessive wordiness and sometimes incoherent talkativeness. Logorrhea is present in a variety of psychiatric and neurological disorders[1] including aphasia,[2] localized cortical lesions in the thalamus,[3][4] mania,[citation needed] or most typically in catatonic schizophrenia.[citation needed] Examples of logorrhea might include talking or mumbling monotonously, either to others, or more likely to oneself. Logorrhea should not be confused with pressure of speech, which is characterized by the "flighty" alternation from topic to topic by tenuous links such as rhyming or punning.[5] Logorrhea is a symptom of an underlying illness, and should be treated by a medical professional. Jump up ^ Arseni, C.; Dănăilă, L. (1977).
Design Patterns In software engineering, a design pattern is a general repeatable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design. A design pattern isn't a finished design that can be transformed directly into code. It is a description or template for how to solve a problem that can be used in many different situations. Uses of Design Patterns Design patterns can speed up the development process by providing tested, proven development paradigms. Often, people only understand how to apply certain software design techniques to certain problems. In addition, patterns allow developers to communicate using well-known, well understood names for software interactions. Creational design patterns These design patterns are all about class instantiation. Structural design patterns These design patterns are all about Class and Object composition. Behavioral design patterns These design patterns are all about Class's objects communication. Criticism Targets the wrong problem Lacks formal foundations
Usage Patterns for Gaelyk | Object Partners Inc Using Groovy on Google App Engine is relatively simple due to Groovy’s compatibility with Java. However, until recently, the framework support has been lacking. Grails now supports GAE through the use of the app-engine plugin and the gorm-jpa plugin. However, in many cases this can be a little heavy weight. Much of the GORM functionality is also lost because of GAE’s usage of a NoSQL datastore and the limitations of JPA. Gaelyk is quickly emerging as one of best frameworks for development on Google App Engine. By design, Gaelyk does not force any particular usage pattern. The Gaelyk tutorial lays out a a very simple usage pattern: Create an entity, populate with parameters from the request, save. def person = new Entity("Person") person << params person.save() Here the params object contains request parameters. One approach is to define domain objects as you would in a typical MVC framework. Here is a Gaelyk plugin that I’ve created for this approach.
Living and Working Abroad Para leér esta entrada en Español píque aquí *************************************************************************************************************** This is not some theoretical piece about how you might do if you decide to live and work abroad. I’ve been ‘doing it’ for more than 30 years now, it was in 1980 that I left my home country, Germany, and in all humility, I am an expert. I spent seven month in India, lived three years in Greece, another three years in England, and I have been living in Mexico for the past 20 odd years.The years in between I roamed the world. I have not been with any multinational company that sent me to those places. When I started off I didn’t have a profession. I started to develop myself at the beginning of the nineties as a language teacher, since by then I spoke several languages. Let me tell you right from the start, it wasn’t easy. But looking back over the past 30 odd years, I wouldn’t change my life for anything else. Find out for yourself.
A Beginner's Guide to Design Patterns Ever wondered what design patterns are? In this article, I'll explain why design patterns are important, and will provide some examples, in PHP, of when and why they should be used. Design patterns are optimized, reusable solutions to the programming problems that we encounter every day. There are three basic kinds of design patterns: structural creationalbehavioral Structural patterns generally deal with relationships between entities, making it easier for these entities to work together. Creational patterns provide instantiation mechanisms, making it easier to create objects in a way that suits the situation. Behavioral patterns are used in communications between entities and make it easier and more flexible for these entities to communicate. Design patterns are, by principle, well-thought out solutions to programming problems. Let's imagine that you've been given the responsibility of creating a way to merge two classes which do two different things based on the situation.