Originally posted on oreilly Experts discuss what’s in store for popular and growing programming languages. As we enter a new decade, we asked programming experts—including several of our own O’Reilly authors and instructors—for their thoughts on what’s in store for some established players and fast-growing languages. Python The biggest news this year in Python is...
Originally posted on Github Machine Learning From Scratch. Bare bones NumPy implementations of machine learning models and algorithms with a focus on accessibility. Aims to cover everything from linear regression to deep learning. About Python implementations of some of the fundamental Machine Learning models and algorithms from scratch. The purpose of this project is not...
Originally posted on dev Have you ever deployed code from one environment to another only to have to spend time reconfiguring files, re-downloading libraries and redoing work because the operating system or general environment was slightly different from the development environment? For developers who have even just being able to easily port different applications into...
Originally posted on dev One of the most common things I see around that I think makes code more difficult to read is the overuse of “if” statements. It’s one of the first programming tools we learn, and it is usually when we learn that the computer can do pretty much anything we like, “if”...
Originally posted on medium This article is the second in a series going over how to scrape Yahoo Finance for stock price history data using the Python coding language. In this lesson, you will learn about open-source repositories, security risks of external packages, and how to install the external Python libraries using the Anaconda Prompt...
Originally posted on dev This year has been weird but good, after suddenly becoming the most experienced frontend developer at the company I work at, Matise, I really had to step it up. In this article I’ve listed 5 things I learned this year concerning web development. 1. Mix blend modes Okay, I had heard about...
Write more semantic code with functional programming Do you ever look at your code and see a waterfall of for loops? Do you find yourself having to squint your eyes and lean towards your monitor to get a closer look? I know I do. For loops are a Swiss army knife for problem-solving, but, when...
If you are using git in your project, you probably know what is .gitignore. Since I never seem to be able to memorized gitignore’s pattern format correctly, when I needed to write a gitignore file for a specific project, I’ll visit github/gitignore in my web browser, search for gitignore file, open the file, copy its content, then finally paste it into my...
What is Git Git is the free and open source distributed version control system that is widely used by the world today. It helps in tracking changes in source code during software development. It is designed for coordinating work among programmers, but it can be used to track changes in any set of files. Its...
Algorithms are an integral part of data science. While most of us data scientists don’t take a proper algorithms course while studying, they are important all the same. Many companies ask data structures and algorithms as part of their interview process for hiring data scientists. Now the question that many people ask here is what...
A simple PlantsVsZombies game implement plants: sunflower, peashooter, wallnut, snowpeashooter, cherrybomb, threepeashooter, chomper, puffshroom, potatomine, spikeweed, scaredyshroom, squash, scaredyshroom, jalapeno, sunShroom, iceShroom. implement zombies: zombie, flagzombie, coneheadzombie, bucketheadzombie, newspaperzombie. use json file to store level data (e.g.position and time of zombies, background info) support to select plant cards at the beginning of the level support...
Top 5 JavaScript IDEs you should know in 2020 Developers have traditionally been writing software using text editors on local machines but recently, habits have started to change. A rise in the popularity of cloud-based services has led to an increase in cloud-based IDEs too. In this post, we cover some of the most popular...
Are you a Python programmer? What are your thoughts? Python’s been gaining popularity year over the year for the past few years. In a 2019 Stack Overflow survey, Python was named the second-most beloved language of developers. Python’s often cited as being multipurpose and easy to be productive in. Its domination in machine learning and data...
Docker saw the most significant percentage increase, while Clojure saw the greatest decline, Indeed Hiring Lab found. Indeed Hiring Lab released a report on Tuesday identifying the fastest-growing and sharpest-declining tech skills of the past five years. Docker, an open-source utility tool, topped the list of fastest-growing skills, with a 4162% increase from 2014 to...
It turns out there are a lot of different ways to duplicate objects In JavaScript, a variable can store two types of data: Primitive Reference When we copy primitive values, only the value will be copied. var a = 10;var b = a;console.log(a, b); // 10, 10b = 20;console.log(a, b); // 10, 20 When we...
A sandbox tower defense game written in Java. Trello Board Wiki Contributing See CONTRIBUTING. Building Bleeding-edge live builds are generated automatically for every commit. You can see them here. Old builds might still be on jenkins. If you’d rather compile on your own, follow these instructions. First, make sure you have Java 8 and JDK 8 installed. Open a terminal in the...
A brief guide to recursive programming, the elegant enumeration for loops and while loops have long been the programmer’s best friends, allowing them to repeatedly perform actions under a condition or to iterate over a list or array. Whether it be reading a feed, tokenizing input, or simply looping over an array, iterative programming has...
SQL and Java feature the most in US tech job listings, but Python is catching up fast. The most sought-after tech skills in the US jobs market are SQL and Java, according to an analysis of skills listed in job postings over the past five years. But one of the most striking changes in recruitment...
In college, I studied Actuarial Science. When I graduated I decided to learn more about data science and programming as I had always been interested in computer science. Soon after I began studying data science at the Flatiron School, I wrote a blog about the potential overlap between these two studies of actuarial science and data...
Expand your toolkit with this new operator With the release of Python 3.8, the assignment-expression operator—also known as the walrus operator—was released. The operator enables the assignment of a value to be passed into an expression. This generally reduces the number of statements by one. For example: my_list = [1,2,3]count = len(my_list) if count >...
