I used the iPad’s external screen output for the second time today (the first was trying out Chopper 2 with the TV as the screen and iPhone as controller) – this time not just as an experiment. I have a set of revision worksheets (all PDFs that I inherited many years ago – I might [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Work’
30 Aug
Mailbox flattening messages
The mailbox.py code does this to dump a message (e.g. when adding to a Maildir file): def _dump_message(self, message, target, mangle_from_=False): # Most files are opened in binary mode to allow predictable seeking. # To get native line endings on disk, the user-friendly \n line endings # used in strings and by email.Message are translated [...]
9 Aug
D520 – Week Three
When planning the semester’s schedule for D520, I choose a few topics that seemed large and gave them a two-week time-slot. One of these was chapter 4 of IronPython in Action, which covers duck typing, design patterns, and introduces the MultiDoc example that’s used throughout the middle section of the book. One of the concepts [...]
31 Jul
D520 Week Two
Here’s my material from the second week of “D520: Programming” (in IronPython). The students got some brief notes [PDF] and the first proper lab exercise [PDF]. The recommended reading this week was a post by Lukas Mathis about poor hardware design (and lessons to be learnt), and a post by Wil Shipley about tracking down a [...]
Recent Comments