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...
Reduce the incidental issues in your programming environment so you can focus on the important data science problems. Consider the following situation: you’re trying to practice your soccer skills, but each time you take to the field, you encounter some problems: your shoes are on the wrong feet, the laces aren’t tied correctly, your socks are...
Is Go an Object-Oriented Language? Yes and No. Although Go has types and methods and allows an object-oriented style of programming, there is no type hierarchy. The concept of “interface” in Go provides a different approach that we believe is easy to use and in some ways more general. There are also ways to embed types...
What is Dynamic Programming? If you’ve ever heard the term dynamic programming being thrown around and wondered to yourself what that term meant or how to use dynamic programming, this article aims to alleviate those concerns and develop a basic understanding. Imagine the following: If you were given a handful of marbles and asked to...
Follow These Quick Wins To Make Python Run Faster Python is too slow, often people complain. But wait, there are many ways to improve its performance This article aims to highlight the key tips in a succinct manner. It is useful for anyone who wants to improve the performance of your python code. I reduced the...
Meta Basics Everyday use Processing files and data System debugging One-liners Obscure but useful macOS only Windows only More resources Disclaimer Fluency on the command line is a skill often neglected or considered arcane, but it improves your flexibility and productivity as an engineer in both obvious and subtle ways. This is a selection of...
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...
WhiteSource review of programming language security errors reveal which languages have the most security holes. The winner? C. But that’s only the start of the story. From top to bottom, technology is riddled with security errors. At the lowest level, we have hardware errors such as Intel’s Meltdown and Spectre bugs. Just above those, we have...
Spoilers: One coding language ended up on both the most loved and most hated lists, according to a Hired report. Employer demand for certain programming languages may be strong, but that doesn’t mean developers always love coding in those languages, according to Hired’s 2019 State of Software Engineers report, released Thursday. What’s Hot at TechRepublic Inside the Raspberry...
Microsoft TypeScript is popular and it’s here to stay as a prominent language, according to analyst RedMonk. TypeScript, Microsoft’s language for building JavaScript at scale, is now one of the most popular languages with developers and hot on the heels of Apple-backed Swift. TypeScript, released by Microsoft in 2012, is now in 12th spot in the...
