Several original ideas from the cranium of TinPenguin.
Solver of the famous "twelve balls" problem, in which one must find a defect out of twelve seemingly identical metal balls. One is either heavier or lighter, and the only tools are a balance scale with three weighings. See source
An AOL instant messaging bot, acting as a message echoer of sorts. It holds the last 10 messages sent to it in messages[], and the name of the person who sent the message. See source
Chemical formula parser, finds mass of formulas and amount of moles/atoms in the formula. See source
Command line version of chemParse.py. See source
Creates a pseudo-darwinistic society where two families compete to be more wealthy and able than the other. See source
A program that finds the volume and density of an object, based on the mass in air, the mass in a liquid, and the density of that liquid. See source
Copycat (copydog, actually) version of the perl program cowsay, using a dog instead of a cow. See source Get archive
Distance from lightning calculator. See source
Calculates the amount of years it would take a mole of moles to reproduce enough times (population doubling every month) so the mass of the moles equals the mass of the known universe. See source
Souris, le reproducteur ennuyant. Reproduces on your hard drive (leaving a big mess, of course) and eats at your RAM. See source
Psudo-randomly gererates names from US Census lists, if no local namelist is available, it will create one from the lists at www.census.gov. See source
Object-oriented programming excercise, using stores and employees to test inheritance. See source
A simple pathfinding algorithm. See source
Using chemParseCMD.py, finds percent mass of things. See source
Converts your P, V, m, and T values to a friendly LaTeX representation of the ideal gas law equation. See source
The replacement for the index page of tinpenguin.com/python/. Takes each python file in the directory, reads its data, and displays it in an html template. See source
Recreation of the Unix "tac" utility, which reads files backwards. See source
Skeleton of a nifty text-adventure game. See source
Tigre, le mangeur de petites animaux. Searches through your directories for yummy files, and eats them. Leaves behind .poo files. See source
A French verb conjugator. See source Get archive
Something to help you with studying vocabulary. Uses flash-card-like techniques to help you learn by asking for the words, and remembers which words you got wrong to help later on. See source
A word counter. Gets words (one word per line) and tells how many of each were seen. See source
Takes x and y of "joystick", and generates motor speeds See source