Impractical Python Projects: Playful Programming Activities to Make You Smarter

You’ll flex your problem-solving skills and employ Python’s many useful libraries to do things like:

– Help James Bond crack a high-tech safe with a hill-climbing algorithm

– Write haiku poems using Markov Chain Analysis

– Use genetic algorithms to breed a race of gigantic rats

– Crack the world’s most successful military cipher using cryptanalysis

– Derive the anagram, “I am Lord Voldemort” using linguistical sieves

– Plan your parents’ secure retirement with Monte Carlo simulation

– Save the sorceress Zatanna from a stabby death using palingrams

– Model the Milky Way and calculate our odds of detecting alien civilizations

– Help the world’s smartest woman win the Monty Hall problem argument

– Reveal Jupiter’s Great Red Spot using optical stacking

– Save the head of Mary, Queen of Scots with steganography

– Foil corporate security with invisible electronic ink

Simulate volcanoes, map Mars, and more, all while gaining valuable experience using free modules like Tkinter, matplotlib, Cprofile, Pylint, Pygame, Pillow, and Python-Docx.

Whether you’re looking to pick up some new Python skills or just need a pick-me-up, you’ll find endless educational, geeky fun with
Impractical Python Projects.