Re: Python for a 10-14 years old?

From: MyHaz (support.services.complaints_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: 24 Mar 2005 00:49:17 -0800

Well i don't know of any tutorials but i thought of a cool little
"assignment" that might interest someone of that age assuming english
is her first language. Its a neat little trick with english and the way
that we proccess letter combinations (or should i say permuations). But
a program that turned proper english into this, might be neat.

"""
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae
the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
wlohe.
"""

the algo whold be something like

openfile
for word in file
   tmp=word[0]
   tmp+=permut(tmp[1:-2])
   tmp+=word[-1]
   print word

She could enjoy sending letters like this, neat secrete codes for a
nine year old ;)

Linky http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/

G'Luck
- Haz

P.S. I just had my friend read it and his native tongue is chinese, so
might work for other languages too.

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