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Python Simple Dice Game

Here’s a simple program in Python that demonstrates some important fundamental concepts in computer programming. The program simulates two players taking it in turns to roll a 6-sided dice, and keeps track...

User Login with Python and SQLite

In this lesson you will learn how to create a basic login script with Python and SQLite. SQLite is ideal for small-scale data-driven Python applications. It is a lightweight, self-contained, serverless database...

Introduction to HackerRank for Python Programmers

HackerRank is a site where you can supercharge your Python programming skills, master data structures and algorithms, and stand out to prospective employers by solving challenges alongside programmers from all around the...

Python Programming Challenge – Validate ISBN-10 Number

ISBN Numbers, or International Standard Book Numbers are commercial numeric book identifiers which are used to uniquely identify a publication. There are two types of ISBN numbers – ISBN-10 and ISBN-13. Validation...

The Stack Data Structure in Python

The stack is a wonderfully simple data structure which despite its simplicity makes many powerful algorithms possible. Some of the uses for a stack data structure in software development are: The Depth-First...

Python programming integers are immutable

Python Programming – List Mutation

A Surprising Feature of Python Lists What do you expect the output of the following Python code to be? def mutate_or_not(a_list): a_list[0] = "I've changed" my_list = [1, 2, 3] mutate_or_not(my_list) print(my_list)...

Python Tables for Multiplication and Addition - output

Colourful Formatted Tables in Python

This post is written for readers with different levels of experience with Python programming and also with Mathematics. Depending on your experience and interest, you will get different things from reading it....

Python Bitwise Operators

Bitwise operators and bit manipulation are like recursion in that they are both topics that are fundamental to computing, yet the amount of use you will make of them will vary gratly...

The Babylonian Square Root Algorithm in Python

Developing your algorithmic thinking skills is a great idea whatever your programming goals are. As well as making you a much better programmer, you will also need to develop theses skills if...

Python Dictionaries

Some Python developers would say that there are two fundamental data structures which form the basis of the language: lists and dictionaries. Whether or not that is true, they are both certainly...