Exercise 8 -- First Class usage

Create a program that will take the coordinates of two points on a
rectangle (the upper left corner and lower right corner) then allow the
user to select one of the following options: calculate area, calculate
perimeter, print an on-screen sample of the rectangle. The program should
use the following class outline:

>>class Rect:
...   def __init__(corner1, corner2):
...        #calculate and print height and width
...    def area():
...    def perimeter():
...    def __repr__:
...        # draw a rectangle of given size

Exercise 9 -- Advance Class usage

Create a Money calculator that takes numbers as input and displays all
output in currency format (12345 would be displayed Euro 12.345,00). The
program must use a class and must have operator overloads for addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division so that when a number is added to
the original amount, the result is displayed in money format as well. 

Exercise 10 -- install pipeline 

Go to the local /data disk and create a personal directory there.
Get the full python code from the cvs repository.
The LDAC software is installed in the /software/ldac path.
Make sure this externlal package can be found in your PATH by adding the 
following three lines to the ~/.settings file:
if ( -d /software/ldac/scripts ) then
   source /software/ldac/scripts/pipe_env
endif
and source this file (it will be sourced each time you login).
Copy the testdata to the local disk (it is at /software/astrowise/unittestdata)
because you will need write access to this directory.
Modify the Environment.cfg file to suit your needs.
Run the unittests in the astro/test directory.

Exercise 11 -- run Recipes

Go to the Recipes directory and run some of the recipes.
(In the directory /software/astrowise/recipedata you may find some example
fits files for the Recipes).

Exercise 12 -- run in parallel mode

Go to the parallel directory and start a number of clients and run the example
code. As a bonus, you might run one of the recipes in the parallel mode...