Originally posted on towardsdatascience. If you’re bored of Java or Python, this might bring your career to the next level Ifyou haven’t used Scala yet, you’re not the only one: Not even four percent of all programmers were using the language as of last year, according to StackOverflow. That puts it at rank 22 of the...
Originally posted on dev. I had collected some points and created a list of some best practices for software development. I plan to refer to this list from time to time to help me become a better Engineer. Publishing the list so that others too may refer and get benefitted from this list. Learn &...
Originally posted on dev. python-journey (3 Part Series) 1Python pro tips2Memoization in short3About Python imports What problem does memoization solve?In a nutshell, it prevents ineffectiveness. Why The code is not as brilliant as you might think. Sometimes, it needs to repeat stuff over and over to do its job. The great idea with memoization is...
Originally posted on thenextweb. Python 3.9 is expected to be released on Monday 5th October 2020. Prior to releasing the official version, the developers had planned to release six alpha, five beta preview, and two release candidates. At the time of writing this article, the first candidate was recently released on 11 August. Now, we’re anxiously...
Originally posted on mattwestcott. How to improve your spaghetti asyncio code By now you might be familiar with the term ‘structured concurrency’. It’s a way to write concurrent programs that’s easier than manually taking care of the lifespan of concurrent tasks. The best overview is Notes on structured concurrency by Nathaniel Smith (or his video if you prefer). This post...
Originally posted on mlwhiz. Pandas is one of the best data manipulation libraries in recent times. It lets you slice and dice, groupby, join and do any arbitrary data transformation. You can take a look at this post, which talks about handling most of the data manipulation cases using a straightforward, simple, and matter of fact...
Originally posted on moz. Many of us are helping businesses that are facing hard times, or we’re facing hard times ourselves. If you’re working for a company (or client) that’s in trouble, the use of SMS chatbots could be a way for you to look outside your normal list of solutions and help them succeed...
Originally posted on zdnet. A team of researchers from MIT and Intel have created an algorithm that can create algorithms. In the long term, that could radically change the role of software developers. For the vast majority of humans, writing code is akin to learning a new language – but researchers from Intel and MIT...
Originally posted on smashingmagazine. Just like during the Renaissance, we’re living in times of incredible cultural and artistic innovation. As the Internet evolves, browsers align, capabilities are added and accessibility of technology becomes easier, designers face new opportunities to create, think, and change their status with no-code tools. The word Renaissance — which means “rebirth” in...
Originally posted on infoworld. Whether you’re a beginner, a moderately skilled dev, or an expert, there’s a book in this lineup to expand your Python programming powers The more popular or more powerful a programming language, the better the odds of finding not only many books about it, but a diversity of books. As Python has soared...
Originally posted on towardsdatascience. With Function and Operator Overloading Overloading in Python allows us to define functions and operators that behave in different ways depending on parameters or operands used. Operator Overloading As an example, we can use “+” operator to do arithmetic calculations on numerical values while the same “+” operator concatenates two strings when strings operands used. This is called operator overloading and it...
Originally posted on medium. Hello, guys! Many of my readers emailed me, asking to write a post about the map and filter function of Java 8 because they found it difficult to use and understand. Even though I have previously blogged about both the map() and filter(), I am writing this post again to expand on the concept in a...
Software development tools for staying organised and keeping quality high There are many online lists of the software and packages used in Data Science. Pandas, Numpy and Matplotlib are always featured, as are machine learning libraries Scikit-learn and Tensorflow. However, just as important are some less DS-specific software development tools that should be part of...
Introduction CSS is the language that sits at the presentation level of the Web alongside HTML and JavaScript. CSS is easy to start with but it’s not simple to work with because it has some features that might seem frustrating at first. These features are what makes CSS such a beautiful language to work with. If you...
Originally posted on hackernoon. Simple Chat Room using Python Python is one of the most versatile programming languages and one can observe that through its various applications everywhere. Here is an example of how you can build a simple command-line based chat room using python which is easy to implement and understand. So let’s get started....
Originally posted on towardsdatascience. New features that can simplify your data processing code — what are they and what do they improve? Python 3.9 has accumulated a lengthy list of improvements with some pretty significant changes such as a new type of parser. The new PEG parser takes a little more memory but is a little faster and...
Originally posted on towardsdatascience. Using YFinance and Plotly libraries for Stock Data Analysis In this article, I will explain to you how you can use YFinance a python library aimed to solve the problem of downloading stock data by offering a reliable, threaded, and Pythonic way to download historical market data from Yahoo! finance. In the later...
Originally posted on thenewstack. There’s an old Monty Python bit I always want to reference when it comes to wonky version numbering, and Perl certainly offers no exception. This week saw the unveiling of Perl 7, which, they write, “is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly.” As we’ve previously explored, the jump from Perl 5 to Perl 7 is...
Originally posted on techradar. If COBOL were to go extinct, we’d all be in serious trouble The world’s banking, business and governmental systems are underpinned by a programming language developed over half a century ago – but fewer people than ever know how to use it today. Devised in 1959 by Dr. Grace Hopper and...
Originally posted on zdnet. JavaScript creator Brendan Eich charts the programming language’s life from Mosaic to Internet Explorer and Chrome. A newly published paper by Brendan Eich, CEO of Chromium-based browser Brave and the key designer of JavaScript, looks back at two decades of the definitive programming language for the web, browsers and, increasingly, native...
