And work as we know it. — I was in technical support for three years before I started my transition from system support to system development. I was recently asked how I became team lead whilst I was the youngest in my team and had the least amount of years in experience? My answer is simple “I…

I can never stress it enough that practice makes perfect… and when it comes to interviews leave no stone unturned even what seems easy… can throw us off. Let’s go through something easy in our strings… and we will be using Python. is Unique Is Unique is a question that simply asks…

An anagram is a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another… for example ‘Clint Eastwood’ and ‘old west action’. Anagrams are also popular as coding interview questions. Often times you will be asked to prove that two strings are anagrams of each other. I have become…

Just a bit on version control. One thing I used to shy away from is committing and pushing to Github and somedays I go back into that shell of fear. Why? well coding is difficult… it’s not for the faint-hearted and definitely requires understanding, patience and technique and those are…

The back and forth algorithm. Over the holidays my sister lost the remote to the main gate of the complex while she was out for a meeting. She had been to two places; the office and a coffee shop when she realized she had lost the remote. She went back…

(introduction) — A data structure is a particular way in which data is captured, organized and stored in computers so that it can be used effectively when it is needed. Essentially we use data structures to interact with data and manipulate it to depict our problems but more importantly solve them. There…

It’s a new year and you are looking for a change in your career, right? right! Out with the old and in with the new, no strings attached right? wrong! Strings, just like arrays, are one of the data structures that store multiple values such as str = “screening interview”…

As software developers, we use loops to automate the repetition of tasks. If we wanted to print something twenty times we could type out the print statement twenty times however that is tiresome and would cause our code to be unnecessarily long and untidy, so we resort to loops. A…

Python is an object-oriented language. As a programming language, it is developer-friendly… It allows for simple writing and reading of code, but in order to create that simplicity, Python wraps the numbers in objects. This concept means it gives numbers additional attributes. …