User:Paddy3118

From Rosetta Code
My Favorite Languages
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 might be things I've worked on.

I have used the Python programming language for over a decade, 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), 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

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

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