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Programming

Taking Python to the Next Level

By Joey Bernard 

A brief intro to simulating quantum systems with QuTiP. more>>

Shell Scripting and Security

By Dave Taylor 

Basic ways you can use shell scripts to monitor password strength and secret accounts. more>>

Programming in Color with ncurses

By Jim Hall 

Jim demonstrates color manipulation with curses by adding colors to his terminal adventure game. more>>

Shell Scripting: Dungeons, Dragons and Dice

By Dave Taylor 

Dungeons, Dragons and Dice—a script that lets you roll those 3d6 and 2d20 that a surprising number of games require. more>>

Creating an Adventure Game in the Terminal with ncurses

By Jim Hall 

How to use curses functions to read the keyboard and manipulate the screen. more>>

Threading in Python

By Reuven M. Lerner 

Threads can provide concurrency, even if they're not truly parallel. more>>

Shell Scripting a Bunco Game

By Dave Taylor 

Bunco—a dice game that makes Yahtzee look complicated! more>>

Getting Started with ncurses

By Jim Hall 

How to use curses to draw to the terminal screen.

While graphical user interfaces are very cool, not every program needs to run with a point-and-click interface. For example, the venerable vi editor ran in plain-text terminals long before the first GUI. more>>

Analyze Song Lyrics with a Shell Script, Part II

By Dave Taylor 

In my last article, I began exploring song lyrics. Not so you could have an epic Karaoke night, but more in the sense of analyzing song lyrics and word usage therein. more>>

How-to Take the Plunge and Replace the "I'm not a programmer" Mantra

By Reuven M. Lerner 

For the past few years, the bulk of my consulting work has been in corporate training. Many of the participants in my courses are people who have been developing software for years already and simply want to learn new languages and techniques. more>>

Analyzing Song Lyrics

By Dave Taylor 

I was reading about the history of The Beatles a few days ago and bumped into an interesting fact. According to the author, The Beatles used the word "love" in their songs more than 160 times. At first I thought, "cool", but the more I thought about it, the more I became skeptical about the figure. In fact, I suspect that the word "love" shows up considerably more than 160 times. more>>

V. Anton Spraul's Think Like a Programmer, Python Edition

By James Gray 

What is programming? Sure, it consists of syntax and the assembly of code, but it is essentially a means to solve problems. To study programming, then, is to study the art of problem solving, and a new book from V. Anton Spraul, Think Like a Programmer, Python Edition, is a guide to sharpening skills in both spheres. more>>

Watermarking Images--from the Command Line

By Dave Taylor 

Us geeks mostly think of the command line as the best place for text manipulation. It's a natural with cat, grep and shell scripts. But although you can't necessarily view your results from within a typical terminal window, it turns out to be pretty darn easy to analyze and manipulate images from within a shell script. more>>

Heirloom Software: the Past as Adventure

By Eric S. Raymond 

Through the years, I've spent what might seem to some people an inordinate amount of time cleaning up and preserving ancient software. My Retrocomputing Museum page archives any number of computer languages and games that might seem utterly obsolete. more>>

Zed A. Shaw's Learn Python 3 the Hard Way

By James Gray 

Author Zed A. Shaw makes a simple promise in his Hard Way series of books from publisher Addison-Wesley Professional: "It'll be hard at first. more>>

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