I was digging through some old code of mine when I came across this script. To me, this script was a demonstration of the beauty and elegance of the python language. You might have come across a puzzle like this: AID + ICED = IDEA. What digits would you assign to the characters A,C,D,E,I so [...]
Categories: programming,python
Tagged: programming, puzzle, python, word arithmetic
This is related to the previous post and is meant in part to demonstrate how great Linux is for doing “weird” stuff . This is what we are trying to do. The circles in the background have been drawn by the python script below. To get the script running you should have python and pygame [...]
Tagged: desktop, gnome, graphics, linux, programming, python
What you see above is how my desktop looks now. You need to be using gnome to get this working. Nautilus draws the desktop (including the icons) for you in gnome by default. We have to tell it to stop doing that, so we can do the matrix animation in its place. Nautilus can be [...]
Categories: linux,programming
Tagged: desktop, gnome, linux, programming, python
I was reading the few entries I had written in this blog and felt an urge to restart. And so, here I am. It has been a long break. A lot of things have happened since the last time I blogged. I finished college and got a job in a Tech start-up in Bangalore. Been [...]
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