http://tonyandrewmeyer.com/tags/windows-forms/Recent content in Windows Forms on Tony Andrew MeyerHugoen-nzFri, 31 Jul 2009 11:01:39 +1200http://tonyandrewmeyer.com/2009/07/31/d520-week-two/Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:01:39 +1200http://tonyandrewmeyer.com/2009/07/31/d520-week-two/<p>Here’s my material from the second week of “D520: Programming” (in <a href="http://codeplex.com/IronPython">IronPython</a>).  The students got <button type="button" class="deadlink" aria-haspopup="dialog">some brief notes</button> [PDF] and the first proper <button type="button" class="deadlink" aria-haspopup="dialog">lab exercise</button> [PDF].  The recommended reading this week was <a href="http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2008/07/13/harmony-1000/">a post by Lukas Mathis about poor hardware design (and lessons to be learnt)</a>, and <a href="http://wilshipley.com/blog/2006/03/pimp-my-code-part-8-mary-mary-why-you.html">a post by Wil Shipley about tracking down a Delicious Library bug</a>.  The notes are again in four sections: <a href="http://ironpythoninaction.com">textbook</a> chapters (this week chapter 3, which is fairly essential reading), tools (same as last week, although I also recommended IronPython 2.6b2), key points, and example code (from chapter 3 of the textbook).  The lab exercise is a modification of one from last year (when it was in Visual Basic) - I&rsquo;m trying to keep as many of the previous lab exercises as possible, so that there is still a tiny bit of continuity between 2008 and 2009. Thoughts on how the class went (again, mostly for me when preparing the 2010 course) - as promised, much shorter than last week (less than half the words!:</p>