User:Paddy3118

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Language Proficiency
Python Advanced?
C Advanced(some time ago)
AWK Advanced?
Tcl I get by
Perl I get by
BASIC Advanced(some time ago)
VHDL Yep
Verilog Yep
Bash Yep
csh Yep
Wrote my own Been there. Done that. Next!
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Hi, I'm Donald McCarthy. I work with Electronic Design Automation tools creating design flows, filling in the gaps with novel tools, and generally helping to design and verify integrated circuits. Your phone might have a processor I worked on, or if you have a nice German car, the engine management chips or the braking controllers, and lately the ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), might be things I've worked on.

I have used the Python programming language for over two decades, and am a python advocate, working by POLITELY (sorry about the shout), spreading the word in forums such as this, and by answering Python queries in blogs. I maintain my own blog Go Deh!.

Rosetta Code Tasks

Although I do a little cleanup of RC pages, and engage in relevant talk page discussions (Kick-me if I seem impolite),

It's clearly gone beyond that. Your deletionary vandalism is now metastasising into an open attack on the intention of Rosetta Code (declared on the landing page) to "aid a person with a grounding in one approach to a problem in learning another."
You seem to regard Rosetta Code as a vehicle for "encouraging" some approaches and "discouraging" others.
This is gratuitous, self-indulgent, and damaging – certainly to Rosetta Code, and probably to you as well.
You are obviously well aware of this tendency in your own behaviour.
Perhaps it would help you and others, both here, and in other parts of your life, to get a little friendly advice and help ? Hout (talk) 11:32, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

I had a stash of examples written for an un-published, (and un-finished to be truthful), book on Python that might be candidates for tasks.

It turned out that, most of the tasks I have written, I developed with RC in mind, and follow my interests at the time. I maintain a list in my talk page of new pages I have created, and, being vain, like to track their viewings, (but I don't artificially pump their viewing stats; that would be impolite, and pretty pointless).

There is one edit that was not for a new page or a task I did that I like to remember, and that was my changes to the entry on Hexadecimal (that also lead to me adding octal).

What Rosetta Code is to me

  • A better repository for those algorithms that interest me.
  • A way to improve my technical writing skills. (Something that can be very useful at work).
    • A way to do as I say: I really can't stand papers written for journals and too many Wikipedia maths entries where you are confronted by a sea of symbols, without any attempt to take the interested amateur along with them. We're not dumb, and we have to be pretty interested to end up reading the paper anyway. I think of it not as "dumbing down", more like popularising.
  • It's a way to take my mind off a harder problem so that my unconscious can do its magic.

Writing and maintaining tasks

Wow, it certainly teaches you a lot about how easy it is to miss something in the description of a task. I have very regular indication of how easy it is to miss something out when implementing a task from a description, as I watch others completing tasks here, very often someone elses mistakes stops me from blundering into the same thing which may make me look a little better ;-)

Pages I have started

# Task Title Create time & date Example count
1 Spiral matrix 06:27 5 August 2008 49
2 Monty Hall problem 17:59 5 August 2008 49
3 Web scraping 20:09 20 August 2008 51
4 Sequence of non-squares 08:36 24 August 2008 57
5 Anagrams 20:28 24 September 2008 67
6 Text processing/Max licenses in use 22:06 3 October 2008 48
7 One-dimensional cellular automata 21:35 8 October 2008 58
8 Conway's Game of Life 22:06 10 October 2008 53
9 Text processing/1 09:47 8 November 2008 32
10 Text processing/2 22:21 13 November 2008 32
11 Align columns 05:27 16 November 2008 61
12 Probabilistic choice 18:28 17 November 2008 36
13 Knapsack problem/Unbounded 22:02 2 December 2008 42
14 Day of the week 14:06 12 December 2008 73
15 Non-decimal radices/Output 05:14 31 January 2009 45
16 Literals/Integer 23:03 1 February 2009 66
17 Interactive programming 17:18 21 February 2009 53
18 First-class functions 15:22 24 February 2009 55
19 Y combinator 03:54 28 February 2009 50
20 Function composition 06:26 3 March 2009 71
21 Exceptions/Catch an exception thrown in a nested call 05:31 7 March 2009 34
22 Look-and-say sequence 09:20 4 April 2009 60
23 Mutual recursion 21:22 9 April 2009 80
24 Bulls and cows 14:21 3 May 2009 51
25 Test a function 18:15 28 May 2009 35
26 Menu 18:27 3 June 2009 48
27 Sort stability 08:32 6 June 2009 39
28 Averages/Simple moving average 21:13 17 June 2009 54
29 Send email 05:51 1 July 2009 27
30 Topological sort 05:46 3 July 2009 31
31 Ethiopian multiplication 04:51 23 July 2009 82
32 Russian Peasant Multiplication 04:53 23 July 2009 82
33 First-class functions/Use numbers analogously 20:00 5 August 2009 29
34 Seven-sided dice from five-sided dice 05:28 8 August 2009 29
35 Verify distribution uniformity/Naive 05:28 8 August 2009 25
36 Flatten a list 16:41 16 August 2009 69
37 Evolutionary algorithm 19:07 6 October 2009 48
38 24 game 17:12 31 October 2009 52
39 24 game/Solve 04:48 1 November 2009 31
40 Bulls and Cows game 06:46 2 November 2009 51
41 Hamming numbers 18:38 2 December 2009 39
42 Random number generator (included) 08:01 23 January 2010 52
43 Pangram checker 19:12 25 January 2010 70
44 String interpolation (included) 07:21 30 January 2010 52
45 Arbitrary-precision integers (included) 06:45 13 February 2010 54
46 Averages/Pythagorean means 05:22 20 February 2010 62
47 Averages/Geometric mean 05:35 20 February 2010 62
48 Averages/Harmonic mean 05:36 20 February 2010 62
49 Averages/Root mean square 07:57 20 February 2010 67
50 Averages/Quadratic mean 07:58 20 February 2010 67
51 Dot product 07:18 24 February 2010 84
52 Luhn test of credit card numbers 06:01 2 March 2010 70
53 Hailstone sequence 00:03 8 March 2010 83
54 Hofstadter-Conway $10,000 sequence 08:21 9 March 2010 33
55 Find common directory path 19:34 23 March 2010 42
56 Horner's rule for polynomial evaluation 03:28 31 March 2010 64
57 Luhn test 04:35 2 April 2010 70
58 Number reversal game 19:11 3 April 2010 42
59 Bulls and cows/Player 13:19 13 June 2010 18
60 Four bits adder 15:38 15 June 2010 33
61 Minesweeper game 10:40 10 July 2010 17
62 Extreme floating point values 19:36 15 July 2010 27
63 Range extraction 22:20 15 July 2010 45
64 Range expansion 22:25 15 July 2010 43
65 Short-circuit evaluation 17:29 24 July 2010 53
66 Short circuit evaluation 17:29 24 July 2010 53
67 Quaternion type 21:46 2 August 2010 34
68 Stable marriage problem 23:27 5 August 2010 22
69 Truncatable primes 22:33 8 September 2010 27
70 Topological sort/Extracted top item 19:45 6 October 2010 3
71 Guess the number/With feedback 06:02 29 October 2010 48
72 Guess the number/With feedback (player) 06:11 29 October 2010 26
73 Ordered words 21:35 9 November 2010 48
74 CSV to HTML translation 11:38 13 November 2010 42
75 Simple quaternion type and operations 20:01 3 February 2011 34
76 Tic-tac-toe 07:12 4 February 2011 17
77 Noughts and crosses 06:05 5 February 2011 17
78 Sort disjoint sublist 06:29 12 February 2011 34
79 Unbias a random generator 06:55 22 February 2011 28
80 Unbalance a random generator 06:56 22 February 2011 28
81 Text processing/3 08:36 24 February 2011 48
82 Show a table with row and column headings 07:42 9 March 2011 42
83 Van der Corput sequence 21:44 10 March 2011 26
84 Executable library 23:41 14 March 2011 11
85 Partial function application 08:04 25 March 2011 28
86 Box the compass 20:58 27 March 2011 43
87 Yin and yang 10:19 2 April 2011 35
88 Vector products 14:18 9 April 2011 44
89 Natural sorting 11:12 23 April 2011 6
90 Permutations/Derangements 09:32 14 May 2011 18
91 Anagrams/Deranged anagrams 11:32 14 May 2011 30
92 Knight's Tour 07:17 29 May 2011 24
93 Kaprekar numbers 06:48 7 June 2011 33
94 Dinesman's multiple-dwelling problem 08:23 25 June 2011 17
95 Unicode variable names 07:16 1 July 2011 27
96 Beyond ASCII variable names 07:17 1 July 2011 27
97 FFT 08:38 11 July 2011 24
98 Numeric error propagation 02:51 30 July 2011 11
99 Break OO privacy 03:38 6 August 2011 13
100 ScriptName 11:26 6 August 2011 55
101 Boxing the compass 06:08 19 August 2011 43
102 One of n lines in a file 22:02 7 September 2011 22
103 Knuth's algorithm S 19:15 21 October 2011 21
104 Hofstadter Figure-Figure sequences 08:18 22 October 2011 20
105 Hofstadter Q sequence 09:08 23 October 2011 31
106 Truth table 07:19 31 October 2011 12
107 Simple Database 10:39 1 November 2011 10
108 Hello world/Newbie 09:10 6 November 2011 10
109 Parsing/Shunting-yard algorithm 22:47 2 December 2011 10
110 Parsing/RPN calculator algorithm 05:35 3 December 2011 23
111 Parsing/RPN to infix conversion 20:16 3 December 2011 12
112 Set consolidation 10:48 7 May 2012 12
113 Set consoldation 15:13 7 May 2012 12
114 Trabb Pardo–Knuth algorithm 20:17 22 May 2012 15
115 Fibonacci n-step number sequences 21:52 24 May 2012 11
116 Floyd's triangle 19:03 24 June 2012 13
117 Dutch national flag problem 09:25 1 July 2012 5

(Auto-generated so it includes miss-spellings and re-directs)

Pages I have started from 1 July 2012 to 16 Aug 2013

User: Paddy3118 has created 392 new pages of which 148 were not Talk: pages, from approx 4523 edits.
New pages created, in order, are:

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. 121 Averages/Mean angle
. 122 Averages/Mean time of day
. 123 Permutations by swapping
. 124 Pig the dice game
. 125 Pig the dice game/Player
. 126 Total Circles Area
. 127 Zeckendorf number representation
. 128 Permutations/Rank of a permutation
. 129 Multifactorial
. 130 Fannkuch
. 131 Topswops
. 132 I before E except after C
. 133 Middle three digits
. 134 Divisors of a natural number
. 135 Harshad or Niven series
. 136 Largest int from concatenated ints
. 137 Circles of given radius through two points
. 138 Rep-string
. 139 Repeated string
. 140 Multiplies of 3 and 5
. 141 Sparkline in unicode
. 142 Flipping bits game
. 143 Percolation/Bond percolation
. 144 Percolation/Site percolation
. 145 Percolation
. 146 Percolation/Mean run density
. 147 Percolation/Mean cluster density
. 148 Longest increasing subsequence

(Yep, I know the counts are off; it is becoming increasingly more difficult to mine RC for the data).

Pages I have started from 16 Aug 2013 to 3 Jan 2015

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. 148 07:13, 16 August 2013 Longest increasing subsequence
. 149 10:11, 28 September 2013 Quickselect algorithm
. 150 07:36, 6 October 2013 Comma quibbling
. 151 13:15, 13 October 2013 Zhang-Suen thinning algorithm
. 152 10:52, 1 January 2014 Hickerson series of almost integers
. 153 20:20, 6 February 2014 AKS test for primes
. 154 20:38, 21 February 2014 Almost prime
. 155 21:36, 6 March 2014 Narcissistic decimal number
. 156 10:53, 15 March 2014 N'th
. 157 19:50, 15 March 2014 Ludic numbers
. 158 07:04, 26 March 2014 Extensible prime generator
. 159 23:44, 4 April 2014 Nonoblock
. 160 10:20, 11 April 2014 Digital root/Multiplicative digital root
. 161 09:10, 4 May 2014 Order disjoint list items
. 162 20:18, 20 May 2014 Move-to-front algorithm
. 163 16:29, 5 July 2014 Ranking methods
. 164 11:48, 27 September 2014 Penney's game
. 165 11:08, 4 October 2014 Solve the no connection puzzle
. 166 06:34, 13 November 2014 Phrase reversals
. 167 22:26, 14 November 2014 Superpermutation minimisation
. 168 08:42, 7 December 2014 Stern-Brocot sequence
. 169 01:36, 11 December 2014 Kahan summation
. 170 00:45, 16 December 2014 Proper divisors
. 171 01:04, 16 December 2014 Amicable pairs
. 172 19:10, 16 December 2014 Abundant, deficient and perfect number classifications
. 173 21:56, 18 December 2014 Aliquot sequence classifications
. 174 03:07, 3 January 2015 Heronian triangles