Even if you are a Software Engineer interested in web development with Python, or a DevOps Engineer looking for ways to automate tasks and processes or even a Data Engineer ready to unlock the potential of Python at your work this course is what you are looking for. This 1-day course will start off the...
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 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 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 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...
Originally posted on dev Last Sunday my son had to prepare for a Math test in primary school. We spent the week asking him the Ein-mal-Eins ( the multiplication tables) and that morning, while I took some time off any screen and was reading a book, I noticed that my wife spent lots of time to write...
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”...
Even if you are a Software Engineer interested in web development with Python, or a DevOps Engineer looking for ways to automate tasks and processes or even a Data Engineer ready to unlock the potential of Python at your work this course is what you are looking for. This 1-day course will start off the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Microsoft’s Visual Studio code is one of the best free text editors available right now. It combines a full feature set with relative ease of use, and performance is surprisingly good for an Electron app. One of the reasons people love it, above reasons aside, is its extensibility. Like many other popular text editors, Visual...
As Data Scientists we become acquainted with the concept of optimization very early in our careers. Optimization lies at the heart of every machine learning model. But our relationship with optimization goes way back; we’ve been [unknowingly] solving optimization problems since before we can remember: The fastest way to get to work Organizing our budget...
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...
The upcoming version on Python is on its way. The Python 3.8 beta cycle begun with Python 3.8.0b1 last month. Earlier this month, the second beta was released, making Python 3.8 feature complete. Python 3.8 will go through two more planned beta release previews before the official version is released in October. According to the...
