<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Shawn posted a few really good links in regards to Python for students... unfortunately I've moved computers and all my old saved mails didn't come with me ... I get my python from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.activestate.com...they">http://www.activestate.com...they</a> have it available for many platforms... Python is easy enough to learn and works on multiple platforms...has wxPython which lets you make "windows" programs... here's a little commandline script I've developed to make usernames for me =) Those of you who are programmers thank you for disregarding the lack of optimization and succinct commenting =) Input is a textfile with <firstname> <lastname> of user each entity on seperate lines Example follows: #Funkified by Huck on 20/06/04 dd/mm/yy #string required for the manipulation of strings import string #making a nifty menu system below def print_menu(): print '1. Press 1 to (i)mport the namelist.txt file' print '2. Press 2 to (g)enerate usernames' print '3. Press 3 to (p)rint new usernames.txt file' print '4. Press 4 to E(x)it the Program' numbers = {} menu_choice = 0 print_menu() while menu_choice != 4: menu_choice = input("Type in a number (1-4):") if menu_choice == 1: #Open the file "namelist.txt" in_file = open("c:\\namelist.txt","r") #variable "textfile" gets filled with info from namelist.txt textfile = in_file.readlines() #Close the file "namelist.txt" in_file.close() elif menu_choice == 2: #The Loopy Loopy namenum = 0 out_file = open("c:\\my documents\pythonscripts\usernames.txt","w") print namenum while namenum < len(textfile): #Manipulate the namelist into pieces we can handle mystring = textfile[namenum] newlist = mystring.split() fname = newlist[0] lname = newlist[1] fname = fname[:2] lname = lname[:4] #Concatenate and Write to File out_file.write(lname+fname+"\n") print lname+fname+" has been written to file." namenum = namenum+1 print namenum out_file.close() namenum = 0 elif menu_choice == 3: #Gimme some output baby! in_file = open("c:\\my documents\pythonscripts\usernames.txt","r") funkytext = in_file.readlines() in_file.close() print funkytext elif menu_choice == 4: pass else: print_menu() print "Goodbye!" #That's All Folks! enjoy! --Huck Liam Marshall wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1090509933.8020.14.camel@server.ltsp" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> In the past years, while working with the evil empire of Microsoft, I was teaching among other things, two programming classes. One Grade 11 class using the medium of Visual Basic, and one grade 12 class using the medium of Java. I have managed to convince the school to let me break away from the evil empire and go to linux in the lab completely. Specifically, I am using K12LTSP with thin clients. I have 32 workstations all connecting to my server now,( a bit of work but worth it compared to the wiping out of workstation hard drives and reloading from scratch that I do every year during the summer) I have Java workable on the workstations and am using an IDE from SUN (NetBeans IDE 3.6) it works great! Now I am looking for a replacement for Visual Basic, which will never work under Linux. It doesn't have to be Visual Basic, I was just using it before because frankly, it was an easy to learn language with alot of mouse work. The operative word is EASY. That way I could focus on the concepts of programming without having to focus on learning the mechanics of the programming language. With Visual Basic the mechanics comes more or less naturally. What I would like is some language usable with linux that is of a similar nature. I would prefer a language that has a nice visual component (IDE, read EASY) so that the students introduction to programming is not like throwing them into the deep end of the pool of programming. Does such an animal exist? And did I mention that it should be free, at least for schools? I convinced them to let me go to Linux at least partially with the argument that cost was minimal, if anything. Please advice. I appreciate all your help, in advance <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.k12os.org"><http://www.k12os.org></a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>