Well as for this week, we were to create some sort of stopwatch game. Player gets a point when, they hit "stop" button if it stops on seconds. A bit even more trickier, but challenge was accepted and completed...Hell Yeah. [sourcecode language="python" wraplines="false" collapse="false"] #http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user38_TSo5mURks3_2.py #http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user38_TSo5mURks3_3.py #or http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user38_nJvMd8w50P_0.py # Mini-project #3 - "Stopwatch: The Game" # Created by Mpho "!nerd" Mphego - Marion Island SANSA Engineer 2014-2015 # # 'Introduction... [Read More]

The following weeks mini-project was starting to get a bit trickier. A simple game called, "Guess the number" [sourcecode language="python" wraplines="false" collapse="false"] # http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user38_p561LbO9KO_0.py # http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user38_SeTv0Tz7E7nAlil_11.py # Mini-project #2 - "Guess the number game" # Created by Mpho "!nerd" Mphego - Marion Island SANSA Engineer 2014-2015 # # 'Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python' Course # RICE University - https://class.coursera.org/interactivepython-005 # by Joe Warren, John Greiner, Stephen Wong, Scott Rixner... [Read More]

CodeSkulptor is a web-based python compiler/interpreter, That I have been using for the Interactive Python course offered on Coursera . And being were I am now, which is in Marion Island - our internet can be so slow at times so I resulted on running my python codes on my local machine not needing to go to CodeSkulptor. I had troubles importing simplegui library, So after vigorous google searches I finally... [Read More]

So I recently enrolled for a course from Coursera.org on Introduction to Interactive Python, After I received a certificate on Introduction to Python programming instructed by Prof. Charles Severance. https://www.coursera.org/course/pythonlearn My first mini-project is a simple Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock game. [sourcecode language="python" wraplines="false" collapse="false"] # Mini-project #1 - "Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock game" # Created by Mpho "!nerd" Mphego - Marion Island SANSA Engineer 2014-2015 # # 'Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python' Course #... [Read More]

How to install Gummi on ubuntu This post is trivial since Gummi has recently released an PPA (Personal Package Archive) for Ubuntu. btw, there are only 3 commands needed to get Gummi up and running: 1- First, add the PPA to your repository: $sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gummi/gummi 2- Then, update your repository to reflect the new changes: $sudo apt-get update 3- Everything is now ready to install Gummi: $sudo apt-get install... [Read More]

Latex is a document markup language for the Tex typesetting program. Due to its high quality typesetting capability, {\LaTeX}/TeX system is popularly used in academia and research communities to prepare professional looking documentations and research papers. To install/upgrade to TeX Live 2014: Open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T Add the texlive-backports PPA by typing the below (enter your password when prompted): [sourcecode language="bash" wraplines="false" collapse="false"] $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:texlive-backports/ppa $ sudo... [Read More]

Menu: Settings Manager -> Keyboard -> Application Shortcuts: xfce4-popup-whiskermenu and click the Windows Key (Super_L)

Menu: Settings Manager -> Keyboard -> Application Shortcuts: xfce4-popup-whiskermenu and click the Windows Key (Super_L)

Here is an example of processing your GMail IMAP email in Python. The script below will: login to GMail account using IMAP open your Inbox retrieve and print all messages close mailbox logout # Script adapted from Corey Goldberg# http://coreygoldberg.blogspot.com/2011/07/python-processing-gmail-imap-email.html#!/usr/bin/env python [Read More]

1. Open terminal. Install dpkg-dev ,apache2 and apt-mirror $ sudo su $ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade $ apt-get install dpkg-dev apache2 apt-mirror 2. Create a directory where you will keep your packages. For this example, we'll use /usr/local/mydebs. $ mkdir -p /usr/local/mydebs 3. Now copy your packages into the directory you've just created. $ rsync -truv /var/cache/apt/archives/* /usr/local/mydebs #tip: you can place that command on crontab to sync every... [Read More]