[python-advocacy] How programming language webpages should be designed

[Michael Foord]

Ray Allen wrote:
> I'd like
>
>     > to see it possible to execute the code too.
>
>     http://codepad.org/eRDY42Lj
>
>
> ***Hopefully, we'd be able to allow interactive execution thereby 
> allowing the user to guess ouptut first and witness the shuffle 
> function in action.  I lvery much like the interactive shell used for 
> the tutorial on the ruby site.
>

One possibility would be "Try Python". It uses Silverlight to execute 
Python *in* the browser:

    http://www.trypython.org/

All the best,

Michael Foord

>     A dict would be nice too,  but I don't want so much in one snippit
>     that it becomes hard to follow.
>
>     I like that your code has some marketing embedded in it.
>
>
> ***Thanks. The code as it stands is simple to follow, but it includes 
> quite a few concepts: the use of a standard library funciton; list 
> creation; list method; iteration; strings; integer; print output.    
> In hindsight, I guess it would remain simple and readable if we added 
> a bit more flow control (such as an if statement) but I'm not sure 
> about dictionaires or classes.  These are soon discovered in the 
> tutorial/documentation and are probably best avoided if this is just 
> intended to give a taster.
>
> """Example Python Program"""
>
> import random
>
> # Create and add to a list
> python = []
> python.append("Easy to read")
> python.append("Fast to code")
> python.append("Quick to learn")
> python.append("Modular and object oriented")
> python.append("Open source and cross platform")
>
> # Shuffle list
> random.shuffle(python)
>
> # Loop through list
> count = 1
> print "Python is ... "
> for each in python:
>     print count,each
>     count += 1
>
> print "Discover more at http://www.python.org"    
>
>
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