Introduction Projectile motion is a form of motion experienced by an object that is projected near the Earth’s surface and moves along a curved path. This type of motion can also be known as a ballistic trajectory. You encounter it in everyday life in sports such as when someone tries to…

Background on Lambda Functions Usually, a function in Python uses the def statement. Python also provides an expression form that generates function objects. However, it returns the function instead of assigning it to name. That’s why they are known as anonymous (unnamed) functions or lambda functions. The origin of the name comes from a…

We walk through walls, burning heels. Clicking five times, two more than one cares about. A swirling wash of tidal waves, deserted on desert land. We sink under the sand where the shamans lay. Past peyote parties from previous lives lived. The Burning Man stood here. The Burning Man stood here. The…

Background on Tuples With dictionaries* to handle unordered objects and lists to handle ordered objects, you might wonder where the data type tuple should be utilized. Python’s creator is a mathematician by training and he created the tuple as a simple association of objects. The word ‘tuple’ is derived from mathematics and refers…

Background on Dictionaries Previously, I wrote an article of ten one-liners for Python lists. Another important built-in data type in Python is dictionaries. Whereas lists are ordered collections of objects, dictionaries are unordered collections. Instead of positional offsets (indices) as in lists, dictionary elements are stored and fetched by keys. …