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 […]
We’ve created a simple game in the previous post (see Guessing Game) where the positions of ‘O’ and ‘X’ are shuffled randomly, and the player gets a point for making a correct guess. Let’s consider the scenario where someone wanted to monetise this game. Some of the considerations might be as follows:– how much should […]
Let’s create a guessing game with a list of five objects containing three ‘O’ and two ‘X’ which would be shuffled randomly. The player would then be asked to choose a position (Left to right – numbered 1 to 5) that do NOT contain an ‘X’. This is equivalent to a probability of 0.6 of […]
In the previous post, we had a programme that can identify the position and occurrence of a single amino acid (represented by a letter) within a given sequence (represented by a string of letters). Let’s modify the code to enable us to search for a block consisting of multiple amino acids within the sequence provided. […]
Evenings With Python 