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Monthly Archives: November 2012
PHSgeek – Other Programming Exercises
There are some really interesting sets of programming exercises available online. Many of these get very difficult very quickly if you are new to programming, but they are really good to know about. It is good to know what kinds … Continue reading
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Tagged education, phsgeek, programming exercises, project euler, python
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Python Exercises – FizzBuzz
FizzBuzz is a classic programming exercise, which is used in many job interviews. Basically, there are many people who like to call themselves programmers, who can’t actually program their way out of a paper bag. So to start an interview … Continue reading
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Python Exercises: Digits of Pi
Digits of Pi Download a text file of the first million digits of pi. Read the file, and store the digits in a list. Parse the list, and report the number of times each digit appears in the first million digits. … Continue reading
The most interesting graph I’ve ever seen
About a month ago I read a news story that described how the Voyager 1 space probe had just reached the edge of the solar system. Here is the graph that caught my eye: When I saw this graph and … Continue reading
PHSgeek – Getting started with matplotlib
Resources Basic plotting: http://johnstachurski.net/lectures/basicplot.html
