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  • Brie's Super Mega Awesome Deluxe Weekend Plus

    • 3 Aug 2011
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    I've got a good chunk of free time coming up (now until Monday)! Rather than waste it, I'm going to finish all the little (and big) projects I've been wanting to do for a while. A lot of these are super lame, like finishing scripts I've abandoned and doing math for fun. Some of the stuff is cool but I can't think of any examples at the moment. I'm trying to avoid biting off more than I can chew but here's a list of most of what I want to get done:

     

    • Finish writing my Python-based laundry robot 
    • Complete the next 12 Project Euler problems to get to level 2
    • Put some content up for every domain name I own (There are a lot so most may be one page sites.)
    • Learn Perl in 2.5 hours
    • Read an issue of Columbia's Journal of International Affairs
    • Finish and publish weather forecast script 
    • Finish and publish stargazing forecast script
    •  Finish reading Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"
    • Write my second Android app (lol!)
    • Find a floppy and floppy burner (or whatever they were called) so I can get my Dell PE2400 up and running PicoBSD
    • Learn to tune my own freaking guitar
    • Locate all five visible planets
    • Finish and relase my mashup

    Like I said, super lame, lol. 

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  • Collatz Conjecture - Python

    • 29 Jun 2010
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    Using Wikipedia’s pseudocode description of the Collatz Conjecture, I whipped something up in Python. Try it!


    n = int(input("What number would you like to explore? "))
    while n > 1:
         print(n)
         if n % 2 != 0:
             n = 3*n + 1
         else:
             n = n/2
    print(n)

     

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    Brie

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    I'm Brie, a 23 year-old graduate of Slippery Rock University's Computer Science department. My interests include Linux (generally and Ubuntu), networking, BSD-style operating systems including my own, BrieSD, translating English-Spanish-English for open source projects and LAMP configuration. Aside from that, I enjoy photography, making short films and soccer.



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