It has been a while, but here is a short post for a simple game nonetheless. This game is called “Unscramble the Word”, where the player would be presented a 7-letter word that has been scrambled and would have to provide the unscrambled word as the correct answer to gain a point. A wrong answer […]
For some types of data visualisation, it may be useful to overlay the data points on a map as the background, particularly if the data has some sort of location significance. One example would be to visualise house resale prices on a map overlay so that the viewer can get a sense of where the […]
Caesar Cipher is one of the most basic form of encryption techniques. It substitutes the letter in the original message with a letter a certain number of positions down the alphabet. For example, if the original message is ‘abc’, encrypting it with a key of 4 (the number of positions down the alphabet that is […]
If you are searching for ideas for a Python mini project on the internet, this would be one of the common search results. This is my take on a simple programme to generate passwords. A password that is considered to be of sufficient complexity typically consists of the following:– At least 1 upper case letter […]
Recently, I came across a Python package developed by Al Sweigart called PyAutoGUI (https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html). It is a very interesting package as it allows the user to automate common functions like keyboard and mouse actions, obtain the coordinates of a certain pixel on your screen and its RGB colour, among other functions. Not sure how helpful […]
This is the first post of its kind on a computer science algorithm. For this example, we will consider a simple game and then see how the binary search algorithm works with it. Let’s consider the “Guess the Number Game” first. A random number between 1 and 100 (not inclusive) will be chosen. The player […]
I was trying out some Python problems on Codewars (www.codewars.com) when I came across this interesting problem titled ‘Blackjack Scorer’ posted by a user called ‘jodymgustafson’. I find this problem interesting because there is a conditional involved when determining the value of an ‘Ace’ card, where it can either take a value of 1 or […]
In this post we will consider a simple financial calculator to see the effect of compounding interest, and also to estimate the number of years a particular sum of funds is able to last through retirement. The code will prompt the user to consider two scenarios, each with a starting amount, and the annual increment. […]
Going one step back from the previous two posts (here and here), a Python code could be used to mark the answers submitted by students, returning the exam score for each student. With the data on hand, the distribution of the students’ choices for each question could be analysed, allowing the examiner to assess what […]
Following from the previous post, there might be instances where the user might need to change the cut-off scores for the various grades so that a desired percentage of students is obtained for each grade – also known as grade moderation. Let’s look at how the code from the previous post could be modified to […]
Evenings With Python 