Brain Games Python
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Completed on 2019-11-14
About the Book
Tired of Brain Fog?
Brain Games Python
99 Brain Teasers to Energize Your Brain Cells and Python Logic Skills
The Groundbreaking New Puzzle Book That
- Revives Your Brain Cells
- Boosts Your Computational Intelligence
- Launches Your Programming Skills in Python
... Even If You Have Zero Programming Experience!
# PUZZLE '''Bob is 4 years younger than Frank and 10 years older than Alice. Ann is with 35 years 6 years older than Alice. What's the age difference (in years) between the oldest and youngest person?'''
Can you solve this puzzle? Or try the next one:
# PUZZLE [11, -10, 4, -3, 4, 4, ?]
What's the next sequence element? Here's a third more Pythonic puzzle:
# PUZZLE
a, b = True, True
if b or a or not a and not b:
if a:
print('love')
elif b and a or not a:
print('42')
print('42')
elif a and b or not a:
if a or b or not b or not a:
print('42')
print('yes')
else:
print('yes')
The book is full with 99 such brain puzzles that make you smarter -- in logics, intelligence, and Python programming!
(Written for absolute beginners and intermediates in the Python programming language.)
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Table of Contents
1 Programming Your Intelligence 1
1.1 Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.2 Puzzle-based Learning to Code . . . . . . . 7
1.3 How to Read This Book . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.4 How to Test and Train Your Skills? . . . . . 14
2 How to Boost Your Intelligence? 10 Tips From Science 18
2.1 Sleep More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.2 Don’t Do Drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.3 Eat Brain Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.4 Meditate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.5 Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.6 Read More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.7 Set Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.8 Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.9 Play Your Strengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.10 Play Brain Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3 Absolute Computer Science Basics for NonCoders 26
3.1 What is Program Code? . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3.2 How to Read Program Code? . . . . . . . . 27
3.3 Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3.4 Control Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.5 Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3.6 Boolean Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.7 Truth Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
The Negation Operator NOT . . . . . . . . 35
The AND Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
The OR Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3.8 Advanced Boolean Operators . . . . . . . . 37
The Exclusive-Or (xor) Operator . . . . . . 37
The Implication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.9 Boolean Operators Precedence . . . . . . . . 38
3.10 Happy Puzzle Solving! . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
4 Kindergarten Logic 40
5 Complete the Sequence 53
6 If Confusion 66
7 Find the Age Difference 79
8 Eleven DNF puzzles 92
9 Eleven All and Any Puzzles 106
10 Word Similarity 119
11 Mental Math 142
12 Find Your Age 156
13 Final Remarks 169
13.1 Your skill level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
13.2 Where to go from here? . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Bibliography 182
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