Numerical calculations with Python — The goal of this article is to graph and calculate the yearly return of a portfolio of five stocks. The stocks I picked were Amazon: AMZN, Microsoft: MSFT, Starbucks: SBUX, Boeing: BA, Costco: COST. Steps 1. Gather portfolio of five stocks by fetching data from a Yahoo Finance API for 2018…

A summary of my year-long goals and results — Overview I have always had trouble motivating myself with traditional S.M.A.R.T goals. They seem so small and find a hard time caring about them. I am a believer in what I call Heroic goals. Heroic goals are big motherfucker goals that you know you cannot achieve but work heroically towards them…

Object-oriented design in C++ with Kristoffer Hebert — Overview Google test is a unit testing framework for C++. It uses boolean values to test C++ code. The two tests are ASSERT and EXPECT. Use ASSERT when you want to the test runner to stop if a test fails. File Layout lib main.cpp fibonacci.cpp fibonacci.h test/main.cpp build.sh Lib is a folder for…

Object Oriented design in C++ with Kristoffer Hebert Overview Arrays are a fixed length list of indexes paired with values. Pointers are the memory addresses of variables. Operators tell the C++ compiler to manipulate values in a specific way. Class Friends have access to private and protected attributes of other Classes. What are Arrays …

Object-oriented design in C++ with Kristoffer Hebert — Overview A Class is a template for creating new objects. For example, a factory assembly line where a die-cast press presses metal into widgets. Classes are the die-cast and objects are the metal widgets. What are Classes A Class is a container, that has attributes of data, and class functions, also known as methods…

Object Oriented design in C++ with Kristoffer Hebert — Overview What are encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism? Encapsulation A Class in Object Oriented design is a container for data and methods. Classes use encapsulation to manage access to attributes, such as methods and data, contained within itself. In the C++ language, encapsulation in Classes is achieved with attributes like: public, private, protected and static. Public Class attributes are…

Comparative Programming Languages with Kristoffer Hebert — What is a Dynamic Structure? Dynamic structures or Dynamic Data structures can remove or add memory as needed at runtime. Common examples are Linked Lists, Heaps, Stacks, Queues and Trees. Static Memory Static Memory means memory size is fixed and determined at compilation. Imagine a room with 3 boxes. You fill 3 boxes and can’t…

Comparative Programming Languages with Kristoffer Hebert — Overview Every language mentioned in this article uses the class keyword. C++, Java, and Node.js have similar syntax for extending Classes. The same is true for instancing new classes. Python does not use extends syntax but uses the parent class as the first argument. Extending Classes Java and Node both use the extends…

Comparative Programming Languages with Kristoffer Hebert — What is a High-Level programming language? High-Level programming languages are optimized for human to read and write. Unlike Low-level programming languages, Memory and CPU resource management is generally handled automatically by the language. Usually have open source package repositories like NPM or PIP, where people can share reusable modules of code. …