This week’s missions: Delivery Drone and Hexagonal Islands

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We believe that it’s highly important to be able to recognize the issues of current education and to know what you really need to learn to achieve your goals and how to do it more efficiently in the long run. So in this week’s article “Minimalistic Approach To Education” we’re talking about the problems that education is facing in terms of information overload and how minimalism can be applied to studying and make it more effective, useful and resultative.

Test yourself and have fun with the new missions we have for you:

The first mission is “Delivery Drone” created by kurosawa4434 where you have to plan the efficient drone movement.

delivery_drone([0, 2, 0]) == 4
delivery_drone([0, 0, 1, 2]) == 6

The second one is also created by kurosawa4434 and is called “Hexagonal Islands”. Here your task is to find the size of all islands represented on the hexagonal grid.

sorted(hexagonal_islands({'C5','E5','F4','F5','H4','H5','I4','I6','J4','J5'})) == [1, 3, 7]
sorted(hexagonal_islands({'A1','A2','A3','A4','B1','B4','C2','C5','D2', 'D3','D4','D5',
                           'H6','H7','H8','I6','I9','J5','J9','K6','K9','L6','L7','L8'}) == [16, 19]

As per usual, we've prepared some interesting articles from the Python world:
• If you have a Python memory problem, then you might be interested in knowing how to reduce the size of objects. Check out the overview of some methods of reducing the size of objects, which can significantly reduce the amount of RAM needed for programs in pure Python.
• In November 2019 Python 3.8 will be officially released. Have you had a chance to try out the beta version? Well, this is you chance to get a sneak peek at Python 3.8 new features, like positional-only arguments and runtime audit hooks assignment expressions.
• Have you ever got stuck when writing and running your Python programs, needing to find out the meaning of certain functions, modules or anything else? I know I did. But did you know that Python comes with a built-in help system? It’s incredible, since you don’t have to look anywhere else! Just have a look at how to use this built-in Python help system.

The users who’ve made the TOP 3 this month are eugene100372, flpo, and Satoshi_Ogata. You are doing great, friends! Keep on coding!