cooler blu

Turtle Art Link

TA nest

Turtle Art

progress

currently I'm reading the AppEngine book and doing the included activities. But, in between activities I experiment with TurtleArt. This way even when I'm not "working" I'm learning :)

TA windmill

Turtle Art

more TA

 

Turtle Art Link

Ice

Turtle Art Link

Inverted Sun

Lavender

Blue Flowa

Turtle Art

We started turtle art last week and it's actually been pretty fun. It's challenging but it's also fun making and experimenting with different patterns. This is my first original design.

Ubuntu Games Evalutions

this is my google doc for the game evalution project, http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgc44sfk_183cr2d2vg5

finished HTML site

This is my html website file:///home/rachel/Desktop/AppEngine/Exercises/index.html. The css was right but it still wasn't working so I deleted the malfunctioning parts and typed them in again. The code was the still the same but it started working.

Homework

I spent a lot of time this week working on the count function in the ch. 7 exercises, so I still have some problems to do. I'll try to work on them over the weekend. From now on I will try to avoid this by spending only a certain amount of time on a single exercise. If I get stuck I'll ask for help rather than continue to work on my own. I hope that this will increase my efficiency in the following chapters.

Ch. 7 Exercises

Here are the Ch.7 exercises - http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgc44sfk_101f246xmxs

Suggestions: Chapter Summaries

I think it would be a good idea to put a chapter summary before each chapter. It would help us know what to expect as well as make it easier for us to go back and review it. I also think it would be easier for me to understand the new codes  if there was an example of the output it would produce, especially for things like...

index = 0
while index < len(fruit):
    letter = fruit[index]
    print letter
    index += 1

...you explain what the output is, but it's difficult to understand without a visual picture of what it's supposed to do. It would be more clear if you showed

index = 0

 while index < len(fruit):

     letter = fruit[index]

     print letter

     index += 1

 
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n
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Finally finished

I finally finished chapter six. The exercises in Ch. 6 were really hard for me. Hopefully I'my just not used to thinking with computer programming and will get better with time and practice. 

???

I wrote this for the num_even_digits function
        count = 0
        while n:
            n = n/10
            if n % 2 == 0:
                count = count + 1
        return count

but whenever I doctest it, it says
File "ch06draft.py", line 7, in __main__.num_even_digits
Failed example:
    num_even_digits(1357)
Expected:
    0
Got:
    1





why?

Ch. 6 Exercises

These are the ch. 6 exercises, http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgc44sfk_90vqxx8qfs

interesting...

after playing around with the sequence(n) function from ch. 6,
I found that sequence(5/9) creates an infinite loop of zeros. I just thought that was interesting...