[CentralOH] 2017-08-10 道場 Scribbles 落書/惡文? math quiz; parsing file; hackerrank stairs; collatz sequence; kinda prime; tdd by example; iter(partial(input, prompt), sentinel); death march

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

active night: had seven folks
the lizard king lives and was at dojo tonight

Moved toward open area for much better wifi.

wp: prefix means Wikipedia
To get good answers, consider following the advice in the links below.
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20090627155454/www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html

wp:Death march (project management)
Death March: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving 'Mission Impossible' Projects
by wp:Edward Yourdon
ISBN 0130146595
Death March 2nd ed. (ISBN 013143635X)
What is a Death March Project and Why Do They Happen?
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=169512
wp:To Sail Beyond the Sunset

wp:Brooks's law
wp:The Mythical Man-Month
wp:No Silver Bullet

wp:Code smell
wp:Code refactoring

Make your own Twitter bot with Python and Raspberry Pi
https://opensource.com/article/17/8/raspberry-pi-twitter-bot

Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community
http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf

jaco teen town
    miriam kemp
    mohini dey

learn how to use git on command line
    https://github.com/james-prior/notes/blob/master/git.redacted
    https://github.com/james-prior/configuration-files/blob/master/.gitconfig
    https://github.com/james-prior/notes/blob/master/github

    put in .bashrc:
    # EDITOR value is for git.
    EDITOR=vim
    export EDITOR

    git push -u origin master

learn vim or emacs (or both)

use a unix-like operating system (linux or osx)

the well tempered api
two braids had two epiphanies:
    wp:Gödel, Escher, Bach
    wp:Recursion

To iterate is human, to recurse divine

wp:Collatz conjecture
wp:Stanislaw Ulam
wp:History of the Teller–Ulam design

http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/james-prior/cohpy/blob/master/20170720-dojo-primes-revisited.ipynb

kinda primes
    might not really be prime, but might be "prime enough" for crypto.
    wp:Miller–Rabin primality test

Read the Kent Beck book!!!!!!
Test-Driven Development: By Example. 2002 Addison-Wesley.
Winner of the Jolt Productivity Award. (ISBN 978-0321146533)

Postgresql is the database preferred for django
grasp pl/sql/pgsql programming with free books
https://www.ossblog.org/grasp-plsqlpgsql-programming-free-books/

9 Best Alternatives To Adobe Reader On Linux (Ebook/PDF Readers)
http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/9-best-alternatives-to-adobe-reader-on-linux-ebookpdf-readers

http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/james-prior/cohpy/blob/master/20170810-dojo-stairs.ipynb
http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/james-prior/cohpy/blob/master/20160708-dojo-user-input-loop-with-iter-partial-input-prompt-sentinel.ipynb
How should the following handle a denominator of zero?
Please send pull requests.
http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/james-prior/cohpy/blob/master/20170810-dojo-parsing-input-file.ipynb