Brain Games Python
Brain Games Python
99 Brain Teasers for Beginners to Energize Your Brain Cells and Python Logic Skills
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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