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Hi All,

I am going to give a talk on Python to computer science researchers at university. I am looking to first give some motivation by some examples and then tell some syntax and APIs that make life easy for prototyping, testing and experimenting. Kindly give some suggestions, what you would like to see in this talk? And particular examples (I am looking to give example of 3 line quicksort in python) which would be fascinating for audience? Anything else that you think can make it a perfect talk.

My motivation is to release these researchers from C++/Java trap and show them the cool thing of Python that can make their life easier for little daily programming tasks they perform.

The title of the talk is "An Introduction to Python" :)

Thanks,

I am looking for some unconventional and innovative ideas for learning German language. I know there can't be better place then HN to ask this question.

Why unconventional because I think my language part of brain is not normal or so. So in school they tried to teach me English grammar for 10 years but still I do not remember any grammatical rule. By accident I learned(sort of) English while watching Hollywood action movies and commentary of cricket matches.

Now the problem is that I am not addictive to TV any more specially action pack movies which makes it impossible to watch daily some German movie to learn German.

Another problem is that I cannot do rot-learning for memorizing the vocabulary. May be because of ADHD or my laziness.

As an example what I have done in past. Once preparing for GRE, I had to memorize huge vocabulary of English, so I wrote a program to which given a ebook as input, adds meanings of difficult words in footnotes of each page. Difficult words were the words from GRE word list. That helped me a lot. But this cannot be used for German as I am in the beginning.

I am using a Polyglot chrome extension for German and doing customizations according to my needs. But still I need some other ways to quickly start communicating.

Now I am looking for other ideas. I am in Germany and started working part time in a software house. Can I involve my German colleagues somehow? Or what other methods you used for learning a foreign language?

Any guesses why in the ranking of last Google AI Challenge, the first Java code is at 92th place?

http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/rankings.php

After all its most popular language on earth. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html