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Brain Games Python

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

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  1. ​Revives your brain cells,
  2. ​Boosts your computational intelligence, and
  3. Launches your programming skills in Python.

Even If You Have Zero Programming Experience!

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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

  1. Revives Your Brain Cells
  2. Boosts Your Computational Intelligence
  3. 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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Christian Mayer

Chris is the founder of the programming education company FINXTER, author of the popular programming book Python One-Liners (NoStarch 2020), a doctorate computer scientist, and owner of one of the top 10 Python blogs worldwide.

His research interests include graph theory and distributed systems.

You can join the FINXTER email academy and consume a large body of free email courses about various topics in computer science and programming.

Lukas Rieger

I love coding and espacially in Python! Python is easy to learn and at the same time it is very powerful. Through the books I would like to help you to discover this! Therefore we designed our puzzle based teaching approach which helps you to learn quickly what you really need and with fun.

I have been working as a Software developer for several years. Currently I'm in the field of operations/SRE of cloud applications.

Zohaib Riaz

Contents

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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