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Crunchy Demos on ShowMeDo

Posted on January 8, 2008 by cpjobling

André Roberge has created three screencasts on the use of Crunchy. Crunchy is an interactive Python interpretor that runs inside the Firefox browser and can be used to create interactive Python tutorials, library documentation, demos and tests. The principle is … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on "First Programming Languages"

Posted on September 3, 2007 by cpjobling

Howard Lewis-Ship has blogged about the recommendation of Java as a First Language. This is a topic that has been exercising me for a couple of years (although I no longer teach an introductory programming course). Howard is right when … Continue reading →

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Replace occurrence of string in files under directory tree

Posted on September 13, 2006 by cpjobling

This Python recipe “ASPN : Python Cookbook : Replace occurrence of string in files under directory tree” has a comment that reminded me of the power of Perl. I am updating my slides for a lecture course that uses rst2s5 … Continue reading →

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