Question

Just finished first lecture and working through Problem Set #0 which includes "Familiarize yourself with Python and IDLE using the exercises given in the handout." I have been unable to locate such a handout. Can you point me to it? Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello, UncleLou. I also just finished the first lecture, and was thrown by the same thing. I did see a tiny intro IDLE exercise on the "Software" page, accessed on the left sidebar. If you scroll down a bit to the "Using IDLE" section, there are a couple of examples, followed by a couple of exercises. They helped me. Good luck!

Answer 2

Thanks, Speed. I had found that but it doesn't seem to fit the language, at least I don't feel "familiarized" with Pathon after that (and, boy, I haven't solved quadratic equations in 50 years!). Anyway, maybe that's all that was intended. I'll try other sources to get more up to speed with IDLE. Thanks for posting.

Answer 3

Yeah, the quadratic equation threw me as well (it's been a while for me too). Also, I wasn't sure how much I should be expecting IDLE to do, and how much of the footwork was up to me. I slogged around, getting IDLE to do just one bit at a time, then plugging each of those values in for each next step. After this PS0, I begin to see how using raw_input could (theoretically) make solving that quadratic equation more elegant than it was for me. Maybe I should go try it again now, using raw_input . . .
I do see suggestions, in responses to other questions, to avail ourselves of tutorials and such.

Answer 4

Hi Uncle Lou and Speed I just finished Lecture1 myself, and I am the process of working on Problem set 0

Answer 5

I would like to learn .NET and C#?

Answer 6

The handouts (as far as I have understood) is on this page http://goo.gl/Yyx8K