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pythonjobs.blogspot.com
Recruitment ads are seldom interesting - but this one is different! We need a lot more companies like Comat.
Two students from XYZ Engineering college came to me with a doubt - they were going to do a mini project on `Digital circuit simulation’ - […]

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PyNeko has been extended a little bit - now, we can build walls between cells.

Check out this link

I have introduced the first Python keyword, `def’ in chapter 5 (neko learns some new tricks). Now, it is time to introduce variables and iteration. The variables-as-name-tags approach (rather than values-in-boxes) seems to be better, as […]

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GnuVision.com is up and running …

Finally, I decided to use a Content Management System, and went for Wordpress, which people know mostly as a blogging software.

Check out how to use Wordpress as a CMS

A bit of PHP tweaking is all that is required … try it out, it is simple! I am using the `Sandbox’ […]

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Snake Wrangling for kids, by Jason Briggs is a book for teaching elementary computer programming (through Python) to school kids.
Recently, a few of us had a discussion about translating the book to Malayalam. GNU/Linux is now available in a lot of schools - and a local language version would be a boon to many […]

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Eric Jones and Prabhu Ramachandran will be conducting a 4 day course on Scientific Computing with Python at IIT Bombay from 16th to 19th July. More details here.
If you can get someone to sponsor you, go for it. It’s sure going to be exciting!

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About thirty or so kids attended a summer camp organized by the Swathanthra Software User’s Group, Malappuram.
The camp was at the `Tharakan School’ at Angadippuram, a 100 year old aided school. Students were taught
basic electronics, computer interfacing using Phoenix and elementary Python programming by a group of
“GNU” volunteers for three days starting from […]

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About 15 Physics Lecturers/Professors from various universities in North India are currently doing a workshop on `Experimental Physics with Phoenix’ at the Inter-University Accelerator Centre. Many of them have had very little previous exposure to computer-based problem solving - but the majority seem to be getting the hang of it - Python is definitely […]

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When people ask me for suggestions regarding simple Python projects which they can do, I direct them to Python for Fun. Chris Meyers has a set of very interesting `intermediate level’ projects on this site; I use his Digital circuit simulation program as an introduction to object oriented programming in Python. I find his […]

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The Python ReStructuredText(ReST)
module takes in an `informally structured’ text document like the following:

This is *italics*

This is another para.
This is part of the same para.

1. Hello
2. World

3) Here

1) Please
2) Come

4. Danger
5. Tiger

(6) Dog
and generates more `structured’ HTML/XML/LaTeX documents like this. It’s part of the […]

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Do you want to do cool 3D graphics stuff with Python? Grab a copy of VPython and start hacking! I have given an
`assignment’ to a few students to do something interesting with it for
Insignia 2005! (In fact, you can do
something *very* interesting with it - it’s possible to generate stereoscopic
images which `jump out’ of […]

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