[python-uk] Dojo at PyconUK

[John Pinner]

Hi,

On 9 September 2011 15:10, Stestagg <stestagg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Nicholas Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 13:23 +0100, John Pinner wrote:
>>> On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
>>> > On 09/09/2011 12:04, Nicholas Tollervey wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Here's one from me to kick things off:
>>> >>
>>> >> Roman Numeral Calculator - e.g. XI - III = IIX (Apparently, it's not
>>> >> as easy as you'd think. Parsing / converting between Roman numerals /
>>> >> numeric values apparently has some interesting "weird" rules to take
>>> >> into account). :-)
>>> >
>>> > For those who haven't been involved, Nicholas has been trying to
>>> > get us to vote for this Roman Numeral Converter pretty much every
>>> > London Python Dojo for the last two years :)
>>>
>>
>> Shhhhh, don't tell them that! It'll never get chosen. :-/
>>
>>> Maybe we should humour him, then.
>>> What I'd like to know, is what about zero?
>>>
>>
>> Or floats...?
>>
>>> > Maybe Coventry will be his lucky place?
>>>
>>> So we have to send him to Coventry so he can get it?
>>>
>>
>> B'dum tish.
>>
>> Here's another favourite of mine:
>>
>> Create a simple text adventure game world. Navigate with commands like
>> n,s,e and w and look at your surroundings with the, er, "look" command.
>> Great fun if you want to understand directed graphs. :-)
>>
>> A variation on this theme is a "Hunt the Wumpus" clone. But then Tim
>> would have to admit to *his* dojo "testing" secret.
>>
>>> john
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>
> Fwiw, the more interesting challenge is to write an efficient Roman
> Numeral calculator that doesn't convert between numerals and numeric
> values.  How do you multiply IX and V in a non-decimal world? It's not
> *that* hard, but good for stimulating debate.

I don't know, but I guess that I'd start by finding out how the Romans did it.

John
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