Programming intro book ch1 and ch2 (Windows/Python 3) - Request For Comments

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* Mensanator:
>>
>> That said, and a bit off-tangent to your comment's main thrust, the time spent
>> on coding that repeated-division-by-2 optimization would, I think, be better
>> spent googling "Collatz Conjecture"  --  avoiding writing /any/ code. ;-)
> 
> Ha! I know more about Collatz than you can ever find by Googling!
> And how did I achieve that? By writing such code. Be a good boy and
> maybe I'll show you how to do Ulam's Spiral with Turtle Graphics.

It's probably good for you that you know so much about Collatz.

I fail to see the relevance to anything.


Cheers & hth.,

- Alf