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If you just want to know what programming principles the founders of Python wanted you to stick with, there’s a simple code to expose them all! Add the following code to your python shell:
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Yep. One line of code. What do we get? Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple […]
WARNING: This is a real easy one, but can be dangerous! Do NOT use this for any malicious or system purposes unless you have been instructed to do so from a verified support professional! This is NOT intended to be anything other than for a test and education. I’ve written millions of lines of code […]
This is part 2. Please refer to the part 1 for context. In the following simple C program, I’ll demonstrate how to capture keystrokes and turn them into something completely different…other than what the key labels read. This is the basic idea behind changing keyboards from English to another language; take the input from the […]
In the following simple C program, I’ll demonstrate how to capture keystrokes and turn them into something completely different…other than what the key labels read. This is the basic idea behind changing keyboards from English to another language; take the input from the key, read its character code (ordinal value) from the operating system, and […]
How can we convert in a program from words like “eight” to the number 8? How can we convert the number 10 to the letters “Ten”? Here, I show you multiple ways to do it bi-directionally…from letters to digits, and digit to letters. I’ve seen several implementations and many rely on ASCII ordinals. But I […]
Did you know that the longest Palindromic word in the Oxford English Dictionary is “tattarrattat” coined by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) meaning “a knock on the door”? What is a Palindrome, you ask? Well, you already know it or have seen it. According to Wikipedia: “A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other […]
Did you know that the longest Palindromic word in the Oxford English Dictionary is “tattarrattat” coined by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) meaning “a knock on the door”? What is a Palindrome, you ask? Well, you already know it or have seen it. According to Wikipedia: “A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other […]
Ever wonder what similarity a pair of words have with each other? Quantifiably? As in percentage? As in 50% match or 100% match, etc.? (Whoa, wouldn’t that be great if that worked out in dating world, eh?). Anyway, it’s okay if you haven’t wondered about it, because I did and here I share a few […]
Letters, in whatever language/scripts are really glyphs aren’t they? They’re a visual representation of a letter that’s supposed to sound (or not sound) like something that we repeated until we memorized it since birth. All good 🙂 I was thinking of different ways to represent letters…you know, just for fun! Yes, I’m weird like that. […]
Welcome back! Today, I share a new game idea (I thought of it myself but if there’s any such game out there, it’s a pure coincidence and I did NOT use those as a foundation). Disclaimer and (c): The idea cannot be recreated in any shape or form for any purpose (other than learning/education) without […]