The following is a true story. The world sure is different now that it’s changed. Each morning about half a dozen of my siblings and other assorted relatives, located hundreds to thousands of miles apart, all report in with their Wordle results for the day. …

Python makes it very easy to organize and structure our program parts for efficient and understandable recycling and reuse. Copy and Paste It’s easy enough to copy and paste lines of code such as functions and class definitions from one Python program to another. But there’s a much better way. Collect related functions…

Pendulums are nature’s clocks, and a short Python program makes it fun to calculate some fascinating things with them. — I’ve seen some interesting things by staring out my big window into the dark blue daytime sky above the Denver skyline. Most balloons have been of the small party type, usually accidentally released by a careless youngster somewhere. But one afternoon a high-altitude upside-down tear-drop-shaped balloon appeared, very similar in…

Your birthday party has 23 guests. Two of them probably share a birthday. But wait, there’s a bizarre twist where you might need to let in 25 on average! — How many people need to be at a party on average, so that at least two of them share a birthday? This is the kind of problem that Python shines at when you tackle it with a Monte Carlo simulation. …

They need a calculator. Do them a big favor and get one with Python programming built in. It could be a life changer! Why Python? Recently, Python became the most popular programming language in the world. …

“It was the size of a basketball at arm’s length.” … Seriously???? What is Angular Size? Angular size is the apparent visual size of an object, and it depends both on the actual size and the actual distance of an object from the viewer. For example, the sun and the moon have nearly identical…

A short Python program lets us estimate when the oceans will cover Florida. Seriously. If you know the radius of a sphere, you can easily use Python to calculate the sphere’s volume. Or, if you know a sphere’s volume, you can calculate its radius. …

The 100-Prisoners riddle is ridiculously weird and hard to believe, but with a short Python program we can verify, or dispute, what the experts claim. Imagine a prison with 100 prisoners, each with a number from 1 to 100 printed on their back. A room is set up with 100…

Here’s a short Python function that makes it easy to calculate the shortest distance between any two points on the planet. The distance between two x,y points in a plane is easily found using the Pythagorean theorem. However, the distance between two points on a sphere, such as the earth…