[CentralOH] coPy] 2016-03-28 會議 Scribbles 落書/惡文?: xrandr, leap day challenge; new challenge; raspberry pi 0 sense hat; C versus Python; Unix Philosophy camera, macro seek thermal

[R P Herrold]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:

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> Eric Floehr presented the entries for last month's challenge to write
> Python code to figure out when the next COhPy meeting will be on a leap day.
> 
>     https://github.com/efloehr/cohpy_leapday_challenge
> 
>     There are many little good details to learn from the entries.
>         calendar.MONDAY is much much better than magic number 0!!!
>     There was also some spectacularly ugly code that works.

site seems to have moved to:

https://github.com/cohpy/challenge-201602-leapday

TIMTOWTDI   a shell solution

[herrold at centos-7 cohpy]$ ./leap-day.sh 
next Leap Monday EOM meeting is: 2/29/2044 
[herrold at centos-7 cohpy]$ cat ./leap-day.sh 
#!/bin/sh
#       https://github.com/cohpy/challenge-201602-leapday
#
#       COhPy meets the last Monday of the month. This year, 
#       2016, COhPy meets on Leap Day. When will the next Leap 
#       Day meeting of COhPy occur?
#
DONE=""
for i in `seq 2016 4 3000 `; do
        [ "x${DONE}" = "x" ] && {
                DOW=` date --date="2/29/${i}" +%a`
                [ "x${DOW}" = "xMon" -a 0${i} -gt 2016 ] && {
                        export DONE="y"
                        echo "next Leap Monday EOM meeting is:  2/29/${i} "
                        }
                }
done
[herrold at centos-7 cohpy]$ 

-- Russ