Tag: range

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)

The number guessing game incorporates several simple but important elements of elementary programming and is a good candidate for an… read more Number guessing game

A variation on the Stars and Stripes American Flag for Independence Day. It’s an exercise in the use of transparency in… read more Stars and Stripes

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

My favourite tweeter is Clifford A. Pickover. His tweets are delightful nuggets of math, physics & more. I have a copy… read more Playing in Python with Pickover’s Premise per Pi

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 colourful random walk. The basic idea is very simple: choose a random heading in the range 0:360 degrees. Step… read more Random Walk

This is your basic Mandelbrot Set plotter. Very little effort made to speed it up, except for plotting top &… read more Naive Mandelbrot Set

This is apparently a well-known interview question (but not one I was ever asked). Print the numbers 1 to 100,… read more FizzBuzz