Chris
I wish you a new year of health, prosperity, and joy! Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reflecting on the future of Finxter and the positive impact we can make in 2023. Last November, we achieved a remarkable milestone – educating one million coders each month! That’s more people than can fit in … Read more
What is the Meaning of the Tilde Operator ~ in Python? Python’s Tilde ~n operator is the bitwise negation operator: it takes the number n as binary number and “flips” all bits 0 to 1 and 1 to 0 to obtain the complement binary number. For example, the tilde operation ~1 becomes 0 and ~0 … Read more
Idea 1: Web Scraping Tool 💬 Challenge: Create a tool that can scrape data from websites, such as product prices, stock prices, news articles, etc. This tool could be built using Python libraries such as BeautifulSoup, Selenium, and Requests. It could extract data from web pages and store it in a structured format, such as … Read more
💬 Project Goal: Create a small Python script that automatically creates catchy titles similar to the one you just read, given a certain topic. A Story on Creating Catchy Titles with Python Once upon a time, there lived a small business owner who was looking for a new way to make their business stand out … Read more
Mini Project Description I was just working on the Finxter app that involves creating a huge amount of log files (for server logs at app.finxter.com). In my Python web app, I create these log files on a daily basis containing usage reports — and I needed to rename them so that I can sort them … Read more
Roughly one in eight people dies because of high blood pressure. High blood pressure is quite common in my family, so I decided to do some research. This quick tutorial shares what I’ve learned — feel free to read on if you’re interested. 👇 What are the pillars of reducing blood pressure and increasing healthspan? … Read more
What/Why? I want to write a simple Python script that warns me if crypto price data (e.g., BTC) crosses a certain threshold. This can be useful for trading or some other apps, so I thought it would be fun to do it. The tutorial in front of you simply documents my learnings on creating a … Read more
💬 Question: Say, you want to dynamically create a variable in your Python script that is named like a string. For example, you want to name the variable after a string value ‘Vladimir’ and assign a value to it so you can access the results using only the variable name Vladimir without the string quotes … Read more
Do you want to learn Python and participate in the great economic shift towards automation and computation? You’re in the right place. Keep reading! Why Learning Python? Python is a versatile, high-level programming language used by millions of organizations and businesses. It is a great language for beginners because it is relatively easy to learn … Read more
To find an element in a list, Python has the built-in list method index(). You can use it to search for an element and return the index of the element. If the element doesn’t exist in the list, the method will return a ValueError. Syntax: list.index(element) Example: The following example searches the string element ‘Sergey’ … Read more
When Google was founded in 1998, Wallstreet investors laughed at their bold vision of finding data efficiently in the web. Very few people actually believed that finding things can be at the heart of a sustainable business — let alone be a long-term challenge worth pursuing. We have learned that searching — and finding — … Read more
Over the years, I received thousands of emails from Finxters who are interested in a list of my “best” posts that concern the business and productivity side of computer scientists and programmers. The following list is a curated list of the productivity related articles on the Finxter blog, ordered by recency: 👇