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Even the manliest will suffer from ailments Sweat imparts body odour to armpits He has money aplenty to pay the penalty When education is auctioned and teachers become cheaters, naturally the student will be stunted Does the lameness of nameless salesmen affect their maleness? The gardener garnered the crop The getaway car was parked near the gateway When the designer was asked to redesign, he promptly resigned On being swindled ones faith in others...
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Gramics is a word that I made up for my own use to capture the essence of the meaning and use of anagrams in a cartoon or comic form. An anagram is a word or phrase that uses the same letters as another word or phrase but is spelled differentlyfor example, oh and ho or ones own and nose won. Sometimes an anagram can also be a palindrome, which is a word or phrase that reads the same forward or backward, as used in Oh ho, but these are unusual. This...
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Join in the pun! Hundreds of riddles, charades, puzzles, and word games - accompanied by charming illustrations - promise to keep readers of all ages chuckling for hours. Test your wits with a small sample of the many jests in store: What makes the Tower of Pisa lean? It never eats. What is the most difficult train to catch? The 12:50, because it's 10 to 1 if you catch it. What is the richest country in the world? Ireland, because its capital is always...
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How much do you know about the world of Harry Potter? Do you know every creature, spell, and Hogwarts professor? Who played each character in the films? And what about the many uses for dragon blood?This amazing quiz book features 400 questions to test your knowledge of everything Potter. Moving from easy questions that a muggle could answer through to trivia that the Wizengamot would consider beyond them, this book will be fun for the whole family....
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2022.
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"Even though I've never attempted the New York Times crossword puzzle or solved the Rubik's Cube, I couldn't put down The Puzzler."--Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before What makes puzzles-jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus-so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their close link to insight and humor, or their community-building properties, they're among the fundamental elements that make us human....
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[2019]
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"A book of fun coding projects for readers who know a little Python already and want to expand their skills. Simulate volcanoes, map Mars, and more, while gaining experience using free modules like Tkinter, matplotlib, Cprofile, Pylint, Pygame, Pillow, and Python-Docx"--
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[2021]
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Teach yourself programming starting with the basics and progressing to a series of exciting projects using Kotlin, one of today's hottest programming languages. This book starts with the absolute basics and then introduces just enough syntax to get into some fascinating projects. These include text processing: a statistical analysis of Jane Austen's novels, solving anagrams, and working with palindromes; image processing: cropping and resizing images,...
8) Java Coding Problems: Improve Your Java Programming Skills by Solving Real-World Coding Challenges
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2019
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The Modern Java Challenge is the book which contains a set of challenges designed specifically to help you master a specific skill in a specific domain. This will put your knowledge to test through real-world problems and help you in becoming an expert Java Programmer.
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2019.
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Delve deep into the various technical practices, principles, and values of Agile. Key Features Discover the essence of Agile software development and the key principles of software design Explore the fundamental practices of Agile working, including test-driven development (TDD), refactoring, pair programming, and continuous integration Learn and apply the four elements of simple design Book Description The number of popular technical practices has...
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"Accounting and finance have a reputation for complexity and dullness. Financial Games for Training aims to change these perceptions! It is an original collection of more than 65 brainteasers, crosswords, puzzles and quizzes plus all the solutions. They've been specially designed to bring a light-hearted but rigorous approach to the study and teaching of an otherwise 'boring' subject. Whether you're a student or executive, participant or tutor, here's...
12) Punished!
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Logan and his friend Benedict are playing tag in the library. Logan gets caught when he runs into a mysterious man. When Logan doesn't apologize sincerely, the mysterious gentleman punishes him by causing him to speak in puns. Only finding seven examples each of oxymorons, anagrams and palindromes within the time limits will return Logan to normal.
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2023.
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Get started performing operations in the Python programming language in this hands-on, interactive course with coding challenges in CoderPad.
If you’re looking to practice basic operations in Python, this course was designed just for you. Join LinkedIn Learning staff instructor Scott Simpson as he leads you through a series of automated coding challenges hosted by CoderPad, the skills-first, technical assessment platform that lets you write live...
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2022.
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The classic nursery rhymes we know and love--upside-down, backward, in gibberish, and fresh out of bounds--as only Jon Scieszka could stage them. Mother knows best, but sometimes a little nonsense wins the day. Inspired by Dadaism's rejection of reason and rational thinking, and in cahoots with Blanche Fisher Wright's The Real Mother Goose, this anthology of absurdity unravels the fabric of classic nursery rhymes and stitches them back together (or...
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Lumberjanes (Graphic novels) volume 1
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2015.
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"Friendship to the max! At Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's camp for hardcore lady-types, things are not what they seem. Three-eyed foxes. Secret caves. Anagrams. Luckily, Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley are five rad, butt-kicking best pals determined to have an awesome summer together-- and they're not gonna let a magical quest or an array of supernatural critters get in their way!"--
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