The Tower of Hanoi is a classic problem that lends itself well to a recursive solution. The story involves some poor monks having to move 64 disks of different sizes (with central holes for the pegs) from one peg to …
This Quick Introduction to Python 3 aims to teach you just enough Python, so that you can get started in computer programming, and try out some of the example codes on this site!
First, you’ll want to install Python 3…
My favourite tweeter is Clifford A. Pickover. His tweets are delightful nuggets of math, physics & more. I have a copy of his fascinating The Physics Book. However, in these tweets, he claims that the string 44899 …
This is simply a dictionary of Python keywords, implemented as – of course – a Python dictionary! Dictionaries are key:value pairs. The value can be any object, such as a tuple of strings. The first item in the …
Alan Turing published a ground-breaking paper in 1936, On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem (PDF). It was about an esoteric problem in mathematics, for which he needed a theoretical model of how a mathematician computes with pencil …
A text editor is all very well for simple notes, but for programming the basic text editor will quickly become very tedious. For example, Python uses code indentation to indicate ‘blocks’, using tabs or spaces (4 spaces recommended for each …
This is a fun little program to generate ‘computer music’, specifically ‘bytebeats’ which sound like the chip music featured in the early computer games. As is well-known, sound can be digitised and stored in computers. Conversely, numbers can be converted …
This is a simple program to compute average heights. In a loop, it prompts the user for heights, inputs a text string and converts it to a ‘real’ number, sums them, and divides by the number of heights. Exit is …
Binary Search is one of the most fundamental computer algorithms. Given an ordered list of some data (names, numbers, …) find out if it contains a particular item. For example, consider the list: 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12. …
If you’re looking for information, books, tutorials, blogs, editors & IDEs, etc about the Python programming language, then I humbly suggest you could do worse than checking out my curated list on Zeef, which is mirrored on this site…
This is your basic Mandelbrot Set plotter. Very little effort made to speed it up, except for plotting top & bottom pixels together as they’re mirrored across the x-axis. Later I’ll show you some much faster programs!
The heart of …
This is apparently a well-known interview question (but not one I was ever asked). Print the numbers 1 to 100, but replace every number divisible by 3 with “Fizz”, every number divisible by 5 with “Buzz”, and every number that’s …
Visiting a web site seems so simple – click on a link in your web browser, and soon – within seconds we hope – an interesting web page reveals itself to us. What could be easier?
In fact, what happens …
This is an effort to provide a set of links to material that should be helpful in studying for the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) exam. Their site only provides a list of the required topics, without going into …
