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 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 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 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 medium This tutorial will help you learn the most common usages of list comprehensions in Python Many more people are starting to learn Python, as it has become one of the most popular programming languages for almost anything, like web development, scientific computing, and certainly artificial intelligence. No matter where you’re going...
Originally posted on codementor Introduction Python is a general language for beginners to get started with programming. Python is used for automation due to a built-in standard library and other tools within the Python ecosystem. Which can be useful for anyone besides just a system administrator to automate certain parts of their process to make...
Originally posted on dev Visual Studio Code is a powerful editor out of the box, but there are many many VS Code extensions to make it even more powerful! If you’re new to VS Code or coding in general, I recommend reading through everything here to see if there are new ways you can optimize your workflow....
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 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”...
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...
How to become more agile and productive with better coding habits If you’ve tried your hand at machine learning or data science, you know that code can get messy, quickly. Actual footage of me writing data science code Typically, code to train ML models is written in Jupyter notebooks and it’s full of (i) side effects...
Iterables, functions, and generators in Python To learn about the yield keyword, there are a variety of other terms and concepts that you must be comfortable with first. Before we dive into all of that, let’s keep the end in mind and talk through why yield is beneficial. Using yield will improve the memory efficiency — and subsequently, the speed/performance — when...
A Quick Look at Lists Lists were one of the first things I learned about when I started exploring Python, and it wasn’t long before I realized they are a commonly used feature of the programming language. A list in the Python language is an ordered and mutable data structure that contains a collection of items...
Python 3.8 released a few weeks ago, and rather than jumping the gun on talking about the new features, I decided I wanted to get familiar with them and utilize them, and I would like to point out that I am absolutely going to be using a few of the key features implemented in Python...
Let’s be honest. A lot of JavaScript code sucks. Change that! JavaScript is a force to be reckoned with. It is the single most widely-used programming language in the world. Its simplicity and the abundance of learning resources make it approachable for beginners. Large talent pools make JavaScript appealing to companies of all sizes. A...
While programming or coding, a programmer can sometimes take hours of time to solve an error. Autocomplete tools serve as a great helping hand as it helps them to complete the code faster while reducing the errors. In this article, we list down 4 autocomplete coding tools for Python programmers. 1| Kite Kite is a powerful editor integration...
Swirl into a game-existencewhere you and your friend are miners. Yep, the yellow hat and shovel in hand. The task — Dig up a hole within a certain time to be able to extract some sparkly diamonds! So your friend suggests that you and they take turns digging… Let’s say it takes you 100 minutes to finish this task when done...
Understanding is vital when it comes to coding Python in many ways has made our life easier when it comes to programming. With its many libraries and functionalities, sometimes we forget to focus on some of the useful things it offers. One of such functionalities are generators and generator expressions. I stalled learning about them for...
Under the Hood Have you ever found yourself writing code and wondering exactly what is going on under the hood? How does programming really work? In an attempt to peel back at least one of the curtains, Jessica Betts and I created our own Esoteric Programming Language based on Lord of the Rings lore called My_Precious. There are many...
As a developer, you have the power to change the world! You can write programs that enable new technologies. For instance, develop software to find an earlier diagnosis of diseases. But, that’s not the only way, you might do it indirectly by creating projects that make people more productive and help them free up time...
