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Drawing an Archimedean spiral using Pillow

From Rosetta Code: The Archimedean spiral is a spiral named after the Greek mathematician Archimedes. It can be described by the equation: $$r=a+b\theta$$ with real numbers \$a\$ and \$b\$. ...

python graphics

asked by Dair 9 votes answered by Gareth Rees 6 votes

Using generators to print the tree-like structure of a project

The goal of this code is to print the entity tree of a VHDL project. There are a readme and very minimal tests on the github repo. I am trying to refactor the code to use generators in order to ...

python dictionary iterator generator

asked by nathdwek 8 votes answered by alexwlchan 1 vote

Find Top 10 IP out of more than 5GB data

I have a few of files, and total size of them is more than 5 GB. Each line of the files is a IP address, looks like: 127.0.0.1 reset success ... 127.0.0.2 reset success how can i find ...

java mapreduce

asked by Cherlex 8 votes answered by rolfl 10 votes

List of all possible monetary totals from a set of cash

This code prints out a list of all the possible sums that can be made from a set of cash. For example, say you have 2 fives and 2 tens in your wallet. With these, you can make exact change for $0, ...

python beginner python-3.x

asked by Vermillion 8 votes answered by Gareth Rees 8 votes

Conway's Game of Life python

It's my implementation. Can I get some opinions on it? import random import os import time class Game: def __init__(self, turns, w, h): self.board = [] for x in range(0, h): ...

python game-of-life

asked by Stepan Vanzuriak 7 votes answered by Graipher 3 votes

Program to count vowels

After reading a certain question on the Stack Overflow website, I tried to write a solution to the problem just for fun. I'm, however, left with the nagging feeling there is a beautiful one-liner that ...

python python-3.x

asked by Pythonic 7 votes answered by Phrancis 11 votes

Search in a JSON structure after a key

This code is supposed to search for a specific key in a object or an array or a mix between both. Is there anything I can improve? function getAllObjectsIn(key, data, casesensitive){ var ...

javascript oop array search

asked by Kastel 7 votes answered by Mike Brant 7 votes

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Interview coding test: Fizz Buzz

I was recently given a coding test to complete for a potential client. It was a FizzBuzz-type of thing with a two-hour time limit. I had a request to write basic FizzBuzz, then add a special case, ...

java interview-questions fizzbuzz

asked by Engineer Dollery 35 votes answered by Mat's Mug 58 votes

Snake game in C++

This is my version of the Snake game, written in C++. How could it be improved, and what general advice would be useful for future projects? #include <iostream> #include <conio.h> void ...

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asked by TheKittyKat 26 votes answered by Yann 24 votes

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Combining fragments of data in a generator pipeline

I tried to follow the generator pipeline style (see David Beazley's famous presentation) for finding duplicate files (similar to answers here). It seems pretty straightforward with MapReduce, so I ...

python generator

asked by max 3 votes

HTML and jQuery audio player

I had a task to create simple audio player. So far I managed to do functionalities and all that is needed. Other part of same task was to make it semantic and modular. I read some blog posts and ...

jquery html5

asked by wired 3 votes

Atomas clone in Python

Here is my crappy clone of Atomas, a puzzle game where you combine small atoms into more valuable ones. # Pytomas (an Atomas build for Python) # Author: Qwerp-Derp from random import randint # ...

python game python-2.7

asked by Qwerp-Derp 4 votes