We're going to write a clone of Arkanoid (Breakout) using Python and PyGame Zero. In this post, I want to show you how easy it is to write a simple game. Let's get started! All the code is available here: https://github.com/shantnu/arkanoid-clone The imag... (more…)

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I’ve recently started using the starmap function in python quite frequently in my analyses. I think it has several advantages including readability, flexability, and above all, very simple parallelism. In this post I’ll cover what the starmap function...

One of the most complicated concepts to wrap our heads around has to be recursion; to understand it well it always helps to have some sort of recursion visualization. In this essay, we build a super-simple yet effective visualizer for recursive functions ... (more…)

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