More stuff added to ch 2 of my programming intro

[Mensanator]

On Dec 16, 4:41 pm, Mensanator <mensana... at aol.com> wrote:
> On Dec 14, 1:23 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al... at start.no> wrote:
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> > * Alf P. Steinbach:
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> > >   Format: PDF
> > >   <url:http://preview.tinyurl.com/ProgrammingBookP3>
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> > > The new stuff, section 2.7, is about programs as simulations and
> > > handling data, focusing on modeling things. It includes some Python GUI
> > > programming. The plan is to discuss containers like lists and
> > > dictionaries in perhaps two more subsections of 2.7, but I'm not quite
> > > sure about how to approach that or exactly how much to cover, since the
> > > intent of ch 2 is to introduce mostly general concepts and enable the
> > > reader to try out (more or less) interesting things.
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> > > Cheers,
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> > > - Alf
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> > > PS: comments welcome!
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> > Well, I posted the current doc. It has a not yet quite complete section 2.7.7
> > about arrays, and that will be the last subsection of the chapter.  I thought
> > using the Josephus circle problem as example was pretty neat... :-)
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> > But anyway, comments welcome, even if that last section's not yet finished.
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> > Cheers,
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> > - Alf
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> > PS: Oh, I changed the manuscript title to "Intelligent Person's Intro to
> > Programming"  --  is that good?
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> Sure. After all, "Idiot's Guide to Programming" and "Programming for
> Dummies" are probably already taken, albeit more appropriate

Oh, and about Chapter 1.

If you're going to use version 3.1.1 as your standard, shouldn't
you also point out that 3.1.1 is NOT bundled with Mac OS X?

How about devoting a section on downloading the source files
and compiling it on a Mac?