Impractical Python Projects: Playful Programming Activities to Make You Smarter by Lee Vaughan

You'll flex your problem-solving skills and employ Python's many useful libraries to do things like:

- Help James Bond crack a high-tech safe with a hill-climbing algorithm

- Write haiku poems using Markov Chain Analysis

- Use genetic algorithms to breed a race of gigantic rats

- Crack a successful military cipher using cryptanalysis

- Derive the anagram, "I am Lord Voldemort" using linguistical sieves

- Plan your parents' secure retirement with Monte Carlo simulation

- Save the sorceress Zatanna from a stabby death using palingrams

- Model the Milky Way and calculate our odds of detecting alien civilizations

- Help the world's smartest woman win the Monty Hall problem argument

- Reveal Jupiter's Great Red Spot using optical stacking

- Save the head of Mary, Queen of Scots with steganography

- Foil corporate security with invisible electronic ink

Simulate volcanoes, map Mars, and more, all while gaining valuable experience using free modules like Tkinter, matplotlib, Cprofile, Pylint, Pygame, Pillow, and Python-Docx.

Whether you're looking to pick up some new Python skills or just need a pick-me-up, you'll find endless educational, geeky fun with Impractical Python Projects.