Parsing HTML with Python
I circled back to working with Python this weekend and learned how to use the BeautifulSoup HTML parser.
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Python and SQLite
I’m starting another review of my recently published book, Self-Guided SQL: Build Your SQL Skills with SQLite, looking for anything I might have missed, and one thought I had was adding more material on how to access SQLite from programming environments. A couple of months ago, I uploaded a video on how to create a…
Python Revisited
Listen to this post or continue reading below. (Audio provided by ElevenLabs.) It seems like, every few years, I get the urge to play around with Python programming. This time, I found myself looking at some of my old BASIC files from back in the day and knew I needed a better challenge so I…
C# Project Review – Mortgage and Savings Calculations
Several years ago, during my short time as a programming instructor, I came up with an assignment for the students where I asked them to create a financial calculator that would calculate mortgage statistics and savings accumulated with compound interest. Of course, I designed my own version and posted it to Github. While looking over…
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Software Development: A First Assignment
Software development starts with the understanding of a system and its rules. This article provides a first exercise in analyzing a system for the potential developer.
Editing Excel Worksheets with Microsoft Access
It’s actually possible to populate specific cells in an Excel worksheet with information from your Access database. Here’s how you do it.
Rogue C# – Adding Scrolls and Potions
Coming back around to the inventory side of the game, I decided to add some extra variety to the available items, starting with the scrolls and potions.
Rogue C# – A Few Random Updates
For this update, I decided to knock out a couple of quick features – the Play Again feature and the spawning of new monsters mid-level. A couple of bugs got squashed along the way.
Rogue C# – Building on the Foundation
The game has a solid foundation and now we start building on it. There are still a lot of features to finish and bugs to work out along the way, especially the individual inventory items that will help the player survive in the dungeons.
Rogue C# – The Monsters Strike Back
After cleaning up from the program refactoring, I decided to complete the programming on the player stats. Then things got real when the monsters started fighting back.