Chapter 11 OOP Concepts

Throw the big part.

—Introduction to Grenade Throwing

Figures

Figure 1.

Example Programs

There are several example programs for chapter 11: download chapter11.zip.

bunch.py
namespace.py
nesting.py
now0.py
now.py
today.py
todays.py

Exercises

Write a replacement mktime() routine. As a hint for a direction to take, search the web for Julian Day and Joseph Justus Scaliger. Another possible starting point is Peter Meyer’s Calendar pages, which can be found at http://www.hermetic.ch/index.php.

Only marginally related to Python and the concepts presented in this chapter, the article found at this link, http://www.trollope.org/scheme.html, “High School Computing: The Inside Story” is fascinating and telling. If you subsitute “Python” for “Scheme” in the text, the article’s point strikes a little closer to home.