I've recently been reading a book called 'In the End, People Who Do Things Immediately Get Everything' which is a loose and unofficial translation of the title 'Kekkyoku "sugu yaru hito" ga subete wo te ni ireru'; a Japanese book about getting things done and succeeding in life. This book leads …
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This blog is a programming and Computer Science blog. Therefore the posts I have made and will make, have code embedded in them and for readability I thought it would be nice if there was some form of syntax highlighting. Now, this blog is hosted on blogger and blogger doesn't have any support for …
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This is going to be a short post, it's just something that hit me today as I was looking over one of my current projects. Python is an object orientated language, everything in Python is an object. However this is extremely misleading. Unlike languages such as Java, in Python you are not forced …
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Recently I've been reviewing basic algorithms and data structures. I have one more year left of university and then I have to find a job. You hear all kind of crazy stories from programming interviews, but one recurring theme is algorithms and data structures. Long story, short; know them. So, in …
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This is the fifth and final in a series of posts on common pythonic idioms, so if you haven't seen the previous two, you should definitely go and give them a read. Learning the idioms presented in this series has really improved my Python code. Not only do a lot of these idioms actually run …
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This is the forth in a series of posts on common pythonic idioms, so if you haven't seen the previous two, you should definitely go and give them a read. STEP ONE: MASTER DICTIONARIES, STEP TWO: TAKE OVER THE WORLD OK, obviously you can't take over the world with dictionaries, but mastering them …
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This is the third in a series of posts on common pythonic idioms, so if you haven't seen the previous two, you should definitely go and give them a read. This post is all about unpacking, that is, splitting sequences into other variables. However as you will soon see, they have some very …
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If you are reading this post then you probably want to write beautiful, clean, readable code that has people's mouths watering when they look at it. Well done, that's the right mindset to have. If you work or are planning to work for a company, or maybe contribute to open source software there is …
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Although not the first language I picked up, I've really taken a liking to Python, especially recently. I've tried out many languages and Python is one of the languages that I find the most fun to program in. One of the reasons I enjoy programming in it so much is that Python code is neat, …
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I'm a very goal orientated person. I have goals for fitness, education, personal life, finances and of course my skills as a developer. Goals are healthy, they help us improve, give us direction and also give us something to relentlessly chase. How though, do you go about achieving them? There are …
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