Books for Learning Algorithms and Data Structures

This page contains recommendations for books to help you learn about algorithms and data structures. There is a lot of territory between beginner and advanced level Python programming, and the best way...

Power Sets with Python

A power set is the set of all possible subsets of a set. For example, if we have a set containing [A, B, C] the possible subsets are: [[], ['A'], ['B'], ['A',...

Python books for beginners

There is no doubt that the best way to learn to program is to practice. However, this is not enough. After all, if you practice typing for many years with just two...

Installing Python Packages

One of the things which makes Python awesome is the quality and quantity of open source packages available to extend its power. This means the with the right package and just a...

Making Games with Python and Pygame

Making games with Python is a great way to improve your Python programming skills and have fun along the way. It can be an end in itself, but it can also give...

Python Challenge – 7 Puzzle

Here’s a fun little puzzle for you, which lends itself well to a Python coding solution. Find a two-digit positive integer that becomes 7 times smaller when its leftmost digit is removed....

Introduction to Web Scraping with Python and Scrapy

Scrapy is a powerful Python package that makes it easy to crawl the web and mine data. There are many reasons why people might want to do this (or hire you to...

Prime Numbers in Python

In this article we are going to look a some different ways to check whether a number is prime using Python. As well as being an interesting and useful exercise, this exploration...

Basic Animation with Python

In this article we are going to learn how to do basic animation and collision detection with Python Turtle Graphics. The best thing to do here is to copy the code provided...

Solar System with Python Turtle Graphics and Object-Oriented Programming

Solar System Animation with Python Turtle Graphics and Object-Oriented Programming

I found this code a while back and I thought it deserved more attention as it’s such an awesome example of what can be done with Python Turtle Graphics and Python object-oriented...