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A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python

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Re: A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python

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Post by simongr3dal »

gruez wrote: post #15
tetrazine wrote: post #13

There’s probably nothing to this, but when I try to screenshot the pdf ( https://ia802805.us.archive.org/7/items/comp3321/comp3321.pd... ) on iOS Safari, my phone locks up for a moment with a black screen and spinner and then I have to unlock the phone. Doesn’t happen on other PDFs on archive.org or after I’ve saved it to iBooks. Can anyone replicate? Is this perhaps the result of some byzantine configuration state i…

>my phone locks up for a moment with a black screen and spinner and then I have to unlock the phone AFAIK that happens when springboard crashes. Maybe there's a 0day exploit in there?

When taking a screenshot in safari on iOS 13 it also tries to save a pdf of the entire page. If you open the little screenshot overlay in the corner there is an option to save as the full page as pdf instead of a screenshot.

Maybe the pdf is just too big to be re-rendered and saved as a new pdf and it crashes somehow.

Re: A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python

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Post by pyuser583 »

Daviey wrote: post #14
scarejunba wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's apparent to the guy you're responding to. He's pointing out that the so-called "unclassified" is actually the class "non-secret". A truly "unclassified" object would not have gone through the process of classification. It would not have a class. Of course in English this is fairly common. The object of price zero is said to have no price. Yet clearly it has a price, it is just zero. I have to say that's an amu…

The United Kingdom's previous system for marking school exams (GCSE) had a marking scheme from "A*/A" to "F", and then "U". Where "U" was Ungraded. Clearly it was graded, but as a "U".

Did they have E?

Re: A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python

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Post by asfarley »

pbourke wrote: post #2

Is this any better than other resources or just mildly interesting because it was made by the NSA?

I think the real question is - why does NSA make their own in-house training manuals for programming languages? Seems likely to get outdated fast. Do they have internal tutorials for Ruby, TCL, Lisp?

Re: A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python

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Post by F00Fbug »

aliljet wrote: post #5
F00Fbug wrote: post #4

It's not that great. You can find much better training materials for beginners all over the place.

Interesting, I don't disagree, but what better alternative would you suggest?

Here's the first place I send folks looking to learn Python:

http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython2/html/index.html

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