User:Paddy3118
| 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! |
| ... | ... |
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
Task Title Create time & date Example count Spiral matrix 06:27 5 August 2008 49 Monty Hall problem 17:59 5 August 2008 49 Web scraping 20:09 20 August 2008 51 Sequence of non-squares 08:36 24 August 2008 57 Anagrams 20:28 24 September 2008 67 Text processing/Max licenses in use 22:06 3 October 2008 48 One-dimensional cellular automata 21:35 8 October 2008 58 Conway's Game of Life 22:06 10 October 2008 53 Text processing/1 09:47 8 November 2008 32 Text processing/2 22:21 13 November 2008 32 Align columns 05:27 16 November 2008 61 Probabilistic choice 18:28 17 November 2008 36 Knapsack problem/Unbounded 22:02 2 December 2008 42 Day of the week 14:06 12 December 2008 73 Non-decimal radices/Output 05:14 31 January 2009 45 Literals/Integer 23:03 1 February 2009 66 Interactive programming 17:18 21 February 2009 53 First-class functions 15:22 24 February 2009 55 Y combinator 03:54 28 February 2009 50 Function composition 06:26 3 March 2009 71 Exceptions/Catch an exception thrown in a nested call 05:31 7 March 2009 34 Look-and-say sequence 09:20 4 April 2009 60 Mutual recursion 21:22 9 April 2009 80 Bulls and cows 14:21 3 May 2009 51 Test a function 18:15 28 May 2009 35 Menu 18:27 3 June 2009 48 Sort stability 08:32 6 June 2009 39 Averages/Simple moving average 21:13 17 June 2009 53 Send email 05:51 1 July 2009 27 Topological sort 05:46 3 July 2009 31 Ethiopian multiplication 04:51 23 July 2009 82 Russian Peasant Multiplication 04:53 23 July 2009 82 First-class functions/Use numbers analogously 20:00 5 August 2009 29 Seven-sided dice from five-sided dice 05:28 8 August 2009 29 Verify distribution uniformity/Naive 05:28 8 August 2009 25 Flatten a list 16:41 16 August 2009 69 Evolutionary algorithm 19:07 6 October 2009 48 24 game 17:12 31 October 2009 52 24 game/Solve 04:48 1 November 2009 31 Bulls and Cows game 06:46 2 November 2009 51 Hamming numbers 18:38 2 December 2009 39 Random number generator (included) 08:01 23 January 2010 52 Pangram checker 19:12 25 January 2010 70 String interpolation (included) 07:21 30 January 2010 52 Arbitrary-precision integers (included) 06:45 13 February 2010 54 Averages/Pythagorean means 05:22 20 February 2010 62 Averages/Geometric mean 05:35 20 February 2010 62 Averages/Harmonic mean 05:36 20 February 2010 62 Averages/Root mean square 07:57 20 February 2010 67 Averages/Quadratic mean 07:58 20 February 2010 67 Dot product 07:18 24 February 2010 84 Luhn test of credit card numbers 06:01 2 March 2010 70 Hailstone sequence 00:03 8 March 2010 83 Hofstadter-Conway $10,000 sequence 08:21 9 March 2010 33 Find common directory path 19:34 23 March 2010 42 Horner's rule for polynomial evaluation 03:28 31 March 2010 64 Luhn test 04:35 2 April 2010 70 Number reversal game 19:11 3 April 2010 42 Bulls and cows/Player 13:19 13 June 2010 18 Four bits adder 15:38 15 June 2010 33 Minesweeper game 10:40 10 July 2010 17 Extreme floating point values 19:36 15 July 2010 27 Range extraction 22:20 15 July 2010 45 Range expansion 22:25 15 July 2010 43 Short-circuit evaluation 17:29 24 July 2010 53 Short circuit evaluation 17:29 24 July 2010 53 Quaternion type 21:46 2 August 2010 34 Stable marriage problem 23:27 5 August 2010 22 Truncatable primes 22:33 8 September 2010 27 Topological sort/Extracted top item 19:45 6 October 2010 3 Guess the number/With feedback 06:02 29 October 2010 48 Guess the number/With feedback (player) 06:11 29 October 2010 26 Ordered words 21:35 9 November 2010 48 CSV to HTML translation 11:38 13 November 2010 42 Simple quaternion type and operations 20:01 3 February 2011 34 Tic-tac-toe 07:12 4 February 2011 17 Noughts and crosses 06:05 5 February 2011 17 Sort disjoint sublist 06:29 12 February 2011 34 Unbias a random generator 06:55 22 February 2011 28 Unbalance a random generator 06:56 22 February 2011 28 Text processing/3 08:36 24 February 2011 48 Show a table with row and column headings 07:42 9 March 2011 42 Van der Corput sequence 21:44 10 March 2011 26 Executable library 23:41 14 March 2011 11 Partial function application 08:04 25 March 2011 28 Box the compass 20:58 27 March 2011 43 Yin and yang 10:19 2 April 2011 35 Vector products 14:18 9 April 2011 44 Natural sorting 11:12 23 April 2011 6 Permutations/Derangements 09:32 14 May 2011 18 Anagrams/Deranged anagrams 11:32 14 May 2011 30 Knight's Tour 07:17 29 May 2011 24 Kaprekar numbers 06:48 7 June 2011 33 Dinesman's multiple-dwelling problem 08:23 25 June 2011 17 Unicode variable names 07:16 1 July 2011 27 Beyond ASCII variable names 07:17 1 July 2011 27 FFT 08:38 11 July 2011 24 Numeric error propagation 02:51 30 July 2011 11 Break OO privacy 03:38 6 August 2011 13 ScriptName 11:26 6 August 2011 55 Boxing the compass 06:08 19 August 2011 43 One of n lines in a file 22:02 7 September 2011 22 Knuth's algorithm S 19:15 21 October 2011 21 Hofstadter Figure-Figure sequences 08:18 22 October 2011 20 Hofstadter Q sequence 09:08 23 October 2011 31 Truth table 07:19 31 October 2011 12 Simple Database 10:39 1 November 2011 10 Hello world/Newbie 09:10 6 November 2011 10 Parsing/Shunting-yard algorithm 22:47 2 December 2011 10 Parsing/RPN calculator algorithm 05:35 3 December 2011 23 Parsing/RPN to infix conversion 20:16 3 December 2011 12 Set consolidation 10:48 7 May 2012 12 Set consoldation 15:13 7 May 2012 12 Trabb Pardo–Knuth algorithm 20:17 22 May 2012 15 Fibonacci n-step number sequences 21:52 24 May 2012 11 Floyd's triangle 19:03 24 June 2012 13 Dutch national flag problem 09:25 1 July 2012 5
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