Python: Beginner to Expert
If you have had a bad experience with math, you may already be discouraged about your ability to learn it. However, since you’re reading this and I’m writing it, let’s assume we both have some interest in the topic, and from that solid basis, let us both be encouraged. Alright, we both have an interest, … Read more
If you’re an experienced programmer who started in Python, you’re probably at least familiar with the basic uses of the with statement. The with statement in Python is an elegant way to manage resources, and is most famously implemented by Python’s open function. Here’s a simple example that prints its own contents and exits. Again, … Read more
This is an article about Git and GitHub, in which we’ll also tell a story about a dinosaur and his yellow floppy disks. We begin with Git and GitHub, lest we get too interested in the story and forget the real subject of this article. Git and GitHub are critical tools to know. For example, … Read more
Almost all Python developers encounter indexing early on when they learn about lists. As you probably already know, Python lists have zero-based indexes. That is to say, given a list named movies, for example, movies[0] returns the first element in the ist, while movies[len(movies)-1] returns the last element. So far, there’s nothing to see here, … Read more
