"An étude (a French word meaning study) is an instrumental musical composition, usually short, of considerable difficulty, and designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill." — Wikipedia
This project contains pytudes—Python programs, usually short, for perfecting particular programming skills.
To continue the musical analogy, some people think of programming like Spotify: they want to know how to install the app, find a good playlist, and hit the "play" button; after that they don't want to think about it. There are plenty of other tutorials that will tell you how to do the equivalent of that for various programming tasks—this one won't help. But if you think of programming like playing the piano—a craft that can take years to perfect—then I hope this collection can help.
For each notebook you can:
- Click on c to run the notebook on Colab
- Click on d to run the notebook on DeepNote
- Click on m to run the notebook on MyBinder
- Click on n to view the notebook on NBViewer
- Click on the title to view the notebook on github.
- Hover over the title to view a description.
| Run | Year | Programming Examples |
|---|---|---|
| c d m n | 2020 | Advent of Code 2020 |
| c d m n | 2018 | Advent of Code 2018 |
| c d m n | 2017 | Advent of Code 2017 |
| c d m n | 2016 | Advent of Code 2016 |
| c d m n | 2018 | Beal's Conjecture Revisited |
| c d m n | 2020 | Bicycling Statistics |
| c d m n | 2018 | Can't Stop |
| c d m n | 2019 | Chaos with Triangles |
| c d m n | 2017 | Conway's Game of Life |
| c d m n | 2020 | Generating and Solving Mazes |
| c d m n | 2020 | Photo Focal Lengths |
| c d m n | 2018 | Pickleball Tournament |
| c d m n | 2017 | Project Euler Utilities |
| c d m n | 2020 | Tracking Trump: Electoral Votes |
| Run | Year | Logic and Number Puzzles |
|---|---|---|
| c d m n | 2014 | Cryptarithmetic |
| c d m n | 2018 | Euler's Sum of Powers Conjecture |
| c d m n | 2020 | Four 4s, Five 5s, and Countdowns |
| c d m n | 2019 | Pairing Socks |
| c d m n | 2018 | Sicherman Dice |
| c d m n | 2014 | Sol Golomb's Rectangle Puzzle |
| c d m n | 2020 | Square Sum Puzzle |
| c d m n | 2020 | When is Cheryl's Birthday? (new: Mad Cheryl) |
| c d m n | 2015 | When Cheryl Met Eve: A Birthday Story |
| c d m n | 2015 | xkcd 1313: Regex Golf |
| c d m n | 2015 | xkcd 1313: Regex Golf (Part 2: Infinite Problems) |
| Run | Year | The Riddler (from 538) |
|---|---|---|
| c d m n | 2017 | Battle Royale |
| c d m n | 2021 | CrossProduct |
| c d m n | 2020 | Flipping Cards; A Guessing Game |
| c d m n | 2019 | Lottery |
| c d m n | 2019 | How Many Soldiers to Beat the Night King? |
| c d m n | 2017 | Misanthropic Neighbors |
| c d m n | 2018 | Properly Ordered Card Hands |
| c d m n | 2020 | Tour de 538 |
| c d m n | 2020 | Weighing Twelve Balls |
| c d m n | 2020 | War. What is it Good For? |
| Run | Year | Word Puzzles |
|---|---|---|
| c d m n | 2020 | Boggle / Inverse Boggle |
| c d m n | 2020 | Chemical Element Spelling |
| c d m n | 2020 | Equilength Numbers: FOUR = 4 |
| c d m n | 2017 | Gesture Typing |
| c d m n | 2017 | Ghost: A Word game |
| c d m n | 2018 | How to Do Things with Words: NLP in Python |
| c d m n | 2020 | Jotto: A Word Guessing Game |
| c d m n | 2015 | Let's Code About Bike Locks |
| c d m n | 2017 | Scrabble: Refactoring a Crossword Game Program |
| c d m n | 2020 | Spelling Bee |
| c d m n | 2017 | Translating English into Propositional Logic |
| c d m n | 2017 | World's Longest Palindrome |
| c d m n | 2020 | World's Shortest Portmantout Word |
| c d m n | 2018 | xkcd 1970: Name Dominoes |
| Run | Year | Probability and Uncertainty |
|---|---|---|
| c d m n | 2018 | A Concrete Introduction to Probability |
| c d m n | 2016 | Probability, Paradox, and the Reasonable Person Principle |
| c d m n | 2020 | Estimating Probabilities with Simulations |
| c d m n | 2019 | The Devil and the Coin Flip Game |
| c d m n | 2020 | Dice Baseball |
| c d m n | 2018 | Economics Simulation |
| c d m n | 2012 | Poker Hand Ranking |
| c d m n | 2020 | The Unfinished Game .... of Risk |
| c d m n | 2019 | WWW: Who Will Win (NBA Title)? |
| Run | Year | Computer Science Algorithms and Concepts |
|---|---|---|
| c d m n | 2017 | Bad Grade, Good Experience |
| c d m n | 2017 | BASIC Interpreter |
| c d m n | 2017 | Convex Hull Problem |
| c d m n | 2020 | How to Count Things |
| c d m n | 2020 | Stable Matching Problem |
| c d m n | 2017 | Symbolic Algebra, Simplification, and Differentiation |
| c d m n | 2018 | Traveling Salesperson Problem |
| File | Description | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| beal.py | Search for counterexamples to Beal's Conjecture | documentation |
| docex.py | An obsolete framework for running unit tests, similar to doctest |
|
| ibol.py | An Exercise in Species Barcoding | documentation |
| lettercount.py | Convert Google Ngram Counts to Letter Counts | documentation |
| lis.py | Lisp Interpreter written in Python | documentation |
| lispy.py | Even Better Lisp Interpreter written in Python | documentation |
| lispytest.py | Tests for Lisp Interpreters | |
| pal.py | Find long palindromes | documentation |
| pal2.py | Find longer palindromes | documentation |
| pal3.py | Find even longer palindromes | documentation |
| pytudes.py | Pre-process text to generate this README.md file. | |
| py2html.py | Pretty-printer to format Python files as html | |
| SET.py | Analyze the card game SET | documentation |
| spell.py | Spelling corrector | documentation |
| sudoku.py | Program to solve sudoku puzzles | documentation |
| testaccum.py | Tests for my failed Python accumulation display proposal |
documentation |
| yaptu.py | Yet Another Python Templating Utility |
I got the idea for the "etudes" part of the name from this 1978 book by Charles Wetherell that was very influential to me when I was first learning to program. I still have my copy.
