Oct 17, 2010 — Find all the unique prime factors of a number, and sum them — Here is part two of the coding challenge: to write a script that takes an input number, and finds the sum of all of the unique prime factors of that number. My script is by no means elegant, but it... Read more

Oct 11, 2010 — Find the smallest prime greater than an input number — that is also in the Fibonacci Sequence! For this one I left in all my print lines that were used for debugging / testing purposes. This script takes in a number, and finds the smallest prime that is greater than... Read more

Oct 10, 2010 — Find the Longest Reversed Substring in a String — This function takes in a string, “stringy,” and finds the longest reversed substring (palindrome) in the larger string. So, racecar would be an example because it is the same thing backwards and forwards! I basically did it by identifying all... Read more

Oct 5, 2010 — Automated Reminder Emails and Text Messages with Matlab and Batch — I’ve worked about 35 hours in the past four days putting together an automated reminder system for our lab. I basically have a batch script working with two matlab scripts, GMail calendars, and various data files to send automatic email... Read more