The dictionary is one of the language’s most powerful data types. In other programming languages and computer science in general, dictionaries are also known as associative arrays. They allow you to associate one or more keys to values.
In this article, I’ll share some ‘beyond the basics’ tips and tricks…
We’ve all read about Github Copilot by now, I assume. If you haven’t, here’s the TL;DR…
Github Copilot is an AI-based autocomplete on steriods for developers
What surprised me most is that this thing doesn’t just know programming languages. …
Here are eight neat Python tricks some I’m sure you haven’t seen before. Apply these tricks in your Python code to make it more concise and performant!
Suppose we want to sort the following list of dictionaries:
people = [
{ 'name': 'John', "age": 64 },
{ 'name': 'Janet', "age": 34 },
{…For those following me, you may have noticed I don’t write as regularly as I used to do on here. There are a couple of reasons, in order of importance:
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A Python comment is an explanation in the source code of a Python program. It doesn’t do anything besides being informative and is ignored by the Python interpreter. In this article, you will learn:
Getting started is hard, no matter what subject it is. To prevent getting discouraged early on, I’m sharing these tips to optimize your learning path.
You’d think the Python website itself would contain a good tutorial like most other languages do. …
Some things you don’t learn at school. These lessons come right from the work floor; I learned them the hard way!
I love this one because it makes the ones hearing it (your manager) think for themselves:
You’re running a website or web application, and it’s gaining popularity quickly. The problem: you’re running your website on a single, cheap VPS. It uses typical components, like MySQL or MongoDB, a web server like Apache or Nginx, some storage, and a web framework like Python Django or a single…
More often than not, software projects are difficult to build from source. This can have multiple reasons, here are just a few:
Debugging Python code, for many of us, comes down to adding print statements and trying to reason what’s going on based on the output. It’s not ideal, but for some reason, people just don’t want to touch the debugger.
If you’re one of those people that use print for debugging…
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