Category: Beginner

I had a phone interview for a Python job the other day. It started out really well, he was very… read more Have we already seen this number? (deja vu again)

Hello World is the famous minimal introductory program for many programming languages. But as soon as it’s served its purpose, it’s discarded… read more Hello World 2, in Python 3

This little Pygame program paints the Rainbow Flag, as used by the LGBT movement. It illustrates: Importing the Pygame library… read more Rainbow Flag in Pygame

This Quick Introduction to Python 3 aims to teach you just enough Python, so that you can get started in… read more A Quick Introduction to Python 3 Programming

Inspired by this post on Reddit, I wrote this little script to do the same thing. The circle is an… read more A Fake Circle made of Straight Lines

Code Golf is the amusement of writing as short as possible a program to perform a given task. So for… read more Tweetable Python Code Golf

This PyGame program simulates the roll of a die (or dice if you prefer). It’s a fairly simple, straightforward thing… read more A Graphical Dice Simulator

A text editor is all very well for simple notes, but for programming the basic text editor will quickly become… read more Editors & IDEs

This is a simple program to compute average heights. In a loop, it prompts the user for heights, inputs a text… read more Compute Average Heights

A very simple Turtle program. Turtle can draw intricate shapes using programs that repeat simple moves. Turtle graphics is a… read more Turtle Star

This is a very simple introduction to Turtle graphics. The turtle starts in the middle of the window, moves forward… read more Square Spiral