Chris

While working as a researcher in distributed systems, Dr. Christian Mayer found his love for teaching computer science students.To help students reach higher levels of Python success, he founded the programming education website Finxter.com that has taught exponential skills to millions of coders worldwide. He's the author of the best-selling programming books Python One-Liners (NoStarch 2020), The Art of Clean Code (NoStarch 2022), and The Book of Dash (NoStarch 2022). Chris also coauthored the Coffee Break Python series of self-published books. He's a computer science enthusiast, freelancer, and owner of one of the top 10 largest Python blogs worldwide.His passions are writing, reading, and coding. But his greatest passion is to serve aspiring coders through Finxter and help them to boost their skills. You can join his free email academy here.

The Ultimate List of 210 Attractive Developer Jobs

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We’ve written a series of guides on income and opportunity in various fields related to information technology, programming, computer science, and tech. Developer Jobs (Alphabetically) Feel free to check out our tutorials about these exciting industries: Job Title More Info (URL) .NET Developer https://blog.finxter.com/net-developer-income-and-opportunity/ ABAP Developer https://blog.finxter.com/abap-developer-income-and-opportunity/ ActionScript Developer https://blog.finxter.com/actionscript-developer-income-and-opportunity/ Ada Developer https://blog.finxter.com/ada-developer-income-and-opportunity/ AJAX Developer … Read more

eCommerce Developer — Income and Opportunity

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What is an eCommerce Developer? eCommerce website developers create websites for online businesses on which customers can purchase electronic or physical goods. eCommerce developers are web developers with a special focus on the infrastructure technology around payments, product shipping, taxing, reporting, and tracking & increasing conversion. What eCommerce Frameworks do eCommerce Developers Use? These are … Read more

eLearning Developer — Income and Opportunity

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What is an eLearning Developer? The eLearning developer is responsible for the technical implementation and deployment of the learning material created by, for example, an instructional designer or teacher. This involves activities such as setting up an eLearning system or course management system, creating code for interactive exercises or quizzes, and taking care of the … Read more

UI/UX Developer — Income and Opportunity

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Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What is a UI/UX Developer? As a UI/UX developer, you’re responsible for the technical implementation of the user interfaces (UI) of software applications (web, mobile, or desktop). You’ll also optimize the user experience (UX) from joining for the first time to … Read more

Python | List All Occurrences of Pattern in String

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💬 Question: Which method finds the list of all occurrences of the pattern in the given string? Problem Formulation Problem Formulation: Given a longer string and a shorter string. How to find all occurrences of the shorter string in the longer one? Consider the following example: Longer string: ‘Finxters learn Python with Finxter’ Shorter string … Read more

Python Unpacking [Ultimate Guide]

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In this article, you’ll learn about the following topics: List unpacking in Python Tuple unpacking in Python String unpacking in Python ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected k) ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected x, got y) Unpacking nested list or tuple Unpacking underscore Unpacking asterisk Sequence Unpacking Basics Python allows you to … Read more

Python Tuple Comprehension Doesn’t Exist – Use This Instead

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Python has list comprehension and dictionary comprehension as a concise way to create a list or a dictionary by modifying an existing iterable. Python also has generator expressions that allow you to create an iterable by modifying and potentially filtering each element in another iterable and passing the result in a function, for instance. Does … Read more

Quant Developer — Income and Opportunity

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Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What is a Quant Developer? A quantitative developer (i.e., Quant) is a financial programmer focused on financial modeling and quantitative finance and trading. Quants use their profound knowledge of statistics and math, finance, data structures, algorithms, machine learning, scientific computing, data … Read more

Test Automation Engineer — Income and Opportunity

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Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What is a Test Automation Engineer? A Test Automation Engineer is a software developer who creates automated software tests for existing or new applications. Testing is a crucial phase in the software development cycle to learn about bugs, usability, and security … Read more

Switch German and English Keyboard Layouts (Windows)

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English/US keyboards are QWERTY keyboards, again named after the first six letters on the keyboard. Here’s a screenshot of an English/US “QWERTY” keyboard layout: German/European keyboards are QWERTZ keyboards, named after the first six letters on the keyboard. Here’s a screenshot of a German “QWERTZ” keyboard layout: 💬 Question: How to switch between German and … Read more