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 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....

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...

PYTHON USER INPUT

User input is one of the things which makes Python programming powerful and interesting, as it provides interactivity. This article shows you how to make Python ask for input from the user...

PYTHON LOOP INVARIANTS

Writing robust code is always a good idea, but is particularly important for mission critical contexts, such as where safety is an issue. There are several historical examples of where faulty code...

TRIANGLE NUMBERS WITH PYTHON

This post explores some different ways of generating the famous Triangle Numbers with Python. Before reading on, have a go a writing some Python code to print out the first 10 Triangle...

PYTHON FUNCTIONS

Functions are a very important aspect of Python programming. They provide a way to structure your code meaningfully and also to make parts of it reusable. Think of a function as being...

Python Loops

The ability to repeat tasks many times in rapid succession is one of the things which makes computers so useful. In programming, the technical word for repeating things is iteration. This is...

Selection Sort with Python

In this article we are going to learn how to implement Selection Sort with Python. Selection Sort is a simple and intuitive sorting algorithm. It can be performed using an auxiliary array...

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