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...
Originally posted on towardsdatascience. Finding bottlenecks and optimizing performance using cProfile If you’ve ever written a line of code (or even tens of thousands of lines), you’ve surely wondered “Why does my code take so long to run?” Answering that question isn’t always simple, but it can be easier if you search for answers the...
Originally posted on analyticsindiamag. Popular video games like Battlefield 2, Pirates of the Caribbean, among others use Python programming for a number of its functionalities and add-ons. With the advancement in the gaming industry, Python language has proved to be an exceptional choice by the developers for rapid prototyping of video games. In this article, we curated a list...
Originally posted on towardsdatascience. A simple way to improve your Python code When we create an object from a class, the attributes of the object will be stored in a dictionary called __dict__. We use this dictionary to get and set attributes. It allows us to dynamically create new attributes after the creation of the object....
Originally posted on opensource. Open source tools can help anyone get started learning Python in an easy and fun way—making games. Python has earned a reputation as a wonderful beginner programming language. But where does one begin? One of my favorite ways to get people interested in programming is by writing games. PursuedPyBear (ppb) is a...
Originally posted on analyticsindiamag. Recently, in the news, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy asked for professionals who know COBOL programming language. “On our list of volunteers, not only do we need healthcare workers, we need engineers with COBOL skills,” said Phil Murphy, governor of New Jersey, in a media statement. What happened is that the state unemployment...
Originally posted on wikipluck. Challenges of AI: AI is divided into 3 different evolutionary stages. Those are:Artificial Narrow IntelligenceArtificial General IntelligenceArtificial Super Intelligence Artificial Narrow Intelligence: Artificial Narrow Intelligence is also known as Weak AI. It involves applying artificial intelligence only to specific tasks. The many currently existing systems that claim to use AI. Those...
Originally posted on hackernoon. This article is based on my PyCon 2020 talk of the same title. Originally published at vinayak.io on May 4, 2020.In the beginning, was the command line. Well, not quite the command line we know today.We had typewriters. We were communicating using Morse code. One fine day, someone had an idea to connect a typewriter...
Originally posted on medium. With the matplotlib and seaborn libraries its easy to make charts in Python, but the default settings can result in an ugly looking chart. This might not be a problem if you only need the chart for your own purposes but if you’re going to share it you may wish to improve its appearance and...
Originally posted on medium. Lockdown in most countries has been adopted in lieu of the pandemic. Perhaps this could be an ideal time to read through some of the best AI articles online. Perhaps staying home during COVID-19 is not at all a bad idea. Although everything has been impacted due to the pandemic, we...
Originally posted on Github Below you find a set of charts demonstrating the paths that you can take and the technologies that you would want to adopt in order to become a frontend, backend or a devops. I made these charts for an old professor of mine who wanted something to share with his college...
Originally posted on realpython Testing your code brings a wide variety of benefits. It increases your confidence that the code behaves as you expect and ensures that changes to your code won’t cause regressions. Writing and maintaining tests is hard work, so you should leverage all the tools at your disposal to make it as painless...
Originally posted on towardsdatascience Implementation of important IPython magic commands in jupyter notebook Python is not only the most versatile programming language but also most flexible when it comes to integrating new features. With this said, Magic commands are one of the important features added to the python shell. What exactly is a Magic Command...
Originally posted on dev A few days ago, I decided to give a try to live coding on Twitch. I developed a bot for one of the forums I visit regularly and it was a great experience, a lot of people visited the streaming and the big majority stayed for a while. Because of that,...
Originally posted on dev GitHub Actions provide a way to automate several workflows/tasks. GitHub Workflows allow you to run a workflow on specific triggers. A trigger happens, and the workflow associated with that trigger runs.You can configure a workflow to start when a GitHub event occurs, on a schedule, or from an external event. The...
Originally posted on Github Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn feel. Try it now Go to https://excalidraw.com to start sketching. Read our blog and follow the guides to learn more about Excalidraw and how to use it effectively. Run the code Code Sandbox Go to https://codesandbox.io/s/github/excalidraw/excalidraw You may need to sign in with Github...
Originally posted on dev JavaScript is not the only language that can be used to do Web development. Some other languages built upon other programming paradigms like Elm or PureScript are available as well. They rely on functional programming and most of the time have similar concepts. And one of these concepts is the Maybe...
Originally posted on techvidvan Moving ahead in our Python Tutorial, today this article will make you familiar with the important concept in Python that is, Python terminologies. In future, you will come across all these terms in various books and tutorials while learning Python. So without wasting any time let’s begin with our tutorial on...
Originally posted on freecodecamp JavaScript was the first programming language I picked up. Well, I actually started with HTML and CSS. Just like many other web developers, going with JavaScript was a no-brainer. This is simply because it blends so well with HTML and CSS, and actually enhances your HTML/CSS skills as well. I’ve developed...
