I hope I'm not posting off-topic, but I'm new to the list. I maintain a small website dedicated to Python, featuring a section called Useless Python, which is the star of our little show. It consists of two things which I hope may be of potential value in the arena of Python and education. Each came about as a good idea set in motion on the Python Tutor email list. We allow people to provide solutions to ACM Programming Contest problems, which must be submitted in other languages such as Perl and C when submitting to the contest judges. We do not judge the submissions, but post them for the world to see. When I contacted the people behind the ACM site, I was told that they were delighted to hear about it and if we could provide a Python judge (which I took to mean software similar to that which they already use), they would be willing to add Python to the list of possible submission languages. Useless Python itself is a collection of scripts and similar selections sent in by anyone who cares to submit code. The general purpose is dual: to reduce the need to send long snips of source in emails to the tutor list, and to allow people to share scripts for beginners to look at. Novice and Intermediate level concepts are expressed in the code here. If there is any way that this resource could be made more useful for educational purposes, or improved in any way, we would welcome any requests or criticism. Oh, and if you have any odd programs you would share with people learning the language, please do. Please forgive my verbosity, Rob Andrews -- Useless Python! If your Python is this useless, we need you. http://www.lowerstandard.com/python/pythonsource.html
On Tue, 1 May 2001 rob@jam.rr.com wrote:
We allow people to provide solutions to ACM Programming Contest problems, which must be submitted in other languages such as Perl and C when submitting to the contest judges. We do not judge the submissions, but post them for the world to see. When I contacted the people behind the ACM site, I was told that they were delighted to hear about it and if we could provide a Python judge (which I took to mean software similar to that which they already use), they would be willing to add Python to the list of possible submission languages.
I am extremely excited to hear about this. I think Python should be one of the permitted languages (and it would instantly clean all the other teams' clocks, if i do say so myself). I'm familiar with the programming contest because i was on the Waterloo team a few years ago. We won, but we had a *major* advantage in that we chose to use vi and cc rather than Microsoft Visual C++, and i'm sure that if we'd had Python we would have done even better. Can you put me in touch with your ACM contact? I would like to make this happen. Thanks! -- ?!ng
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