honest.knave

In my last entry, I talked about closed-minded attitudes about new (or just unfamiliar) programming styles. I’ve been thinking a lot about why Python — or any other dynamic language — is more powerful than a more rigid, statically typed language. For the purposes of this article, I consider C++ rigid, even though [...]

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Apparently, there’s a company called ITA Software that posts interesting software puzzles and invites job applicants to attempt them. I stumbled across this archive page and found the one called “Sling Blade Runner.” The challenge is to construct the longest chain of movie titles in the before & after style of Wheel of [...]

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I’m not going to discuss every Project Euler problem I attempt, but I thought the seventh problem was interesting. The goal of the problem is to identify the 10,001st prime. Several times in the past, I’ve written a simple primality test, the naive way. This time I figured it would be a [...]

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I decided to broaden my horizons a little by learning Python. I’ve been using it internally on some projects, but primarily as a glorified shell scripting language. In order to become more comfortable with Python, I decided I need to write small programs on a regular basis.
Project Euler is a great set of [...]

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