Stumbled upon norvig's pytudes years ago during a leetcode grind. His elegant approach to problems always had this touch of clarity that only few possess. Python, with its expressive syntax, combined with norvig's penchant for crafting illuminating examples, has definitely provided me with numerous 'aha' moments. I recall, early in my career when learning about bayesian probabilities, that it was peter's "how to write a spell checker" that made the abstract concrete for me. it's really heartening to see such a legend continuously contributing to and enriching the programming community.

It's inspirational to me that norvig still does these things. That he gets joy out of it so late in life, that he's still more than mentally adept at it, etc. Makes me feel like pursuing programming as a craft for life is a worthwhile option.

This is a reference to the older book, Etudes For Programmers by Charles Wetherell which Norvig is no doubt appreciative of.

There should be more of these: ctudes, jstudes, etc.

Norvig has always been a huge inspiration for me. I read his sudoku solving blog (https://norvig.com/sudoku.html) when I was first teaching myself to code and it really helped me nurture a love for solving fun problems.

Etudes for Programmers is really hard to find to purchase - looks like it is around 450 USD on my local Amazon store and none in local libraries. Does anyone have a link to a PDF of it instead?

I love the pickleball tournament example. I tried to implement this for badminton several years ago but I could never figure it out.

Could someone provide some context? I can understand the py scripts, but is confused by these very long Jupyter notebooks.