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Retired computer science prof, background in classical music and linguistics. Have been learning Python off & on for a while. Am slowly developing a flashcard program for Chinese since I don't like the ones available on the Web.

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Classical pianist, love the mountains and hiking
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At the moment my record is two. Like right now I am upgrading fedora on one and chatting here and coding as I speak. Well, more of chatting then coding.

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In one of my MS Word documents I want to change the simplified Chinese font (Simsun) for one that's more readable at small point sizes. Now I have to figure out which of my hundreds of fonts supports simplified Chinese. It's not totally straightforward, since I have Japanese & Korean …

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Dear wizards, here are two easy wxpython questions. Thanks in advance for your help! 1. How do I get wxpython to activate a button when user presses "Enter"? In the baby application below, pressing "Tab" switches the focus from one button to another, but I don't know how to make …

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My goal is to write a function that takes a number and returns the number of solutions for that number, a form along the lines of f(a) = x_0 + x_1 +...+ x_n = a. where n can be any number such that n < a. Another restriction that I'm …

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Well. I am newbie here and i wanna ask what course to choose. I am a third year high school student, and I am having troubles choosing what course to take.. So here's my choices Computer engineering ( proposed by my mom) Computer Science ( Choose it myself) and computer …

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I'm trying to learn wxPython. Unfortunately when I came to China in Jan I had to leave the nice wxPython book in Canada because it was too heavy for my suitcase. So I humbly ask you to bear with my ignorance. As practice (and because I have a practical use …

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After teaching comp sci and math for almost 30 years in Montreal, Canada, I retired 5 years ago, took a lot of linguistics courses, became interested in Japanese, then Chinese, and finally got my ESL certification. So here I am in Neijiang (Sichuan) teaching oral and written English to a …

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