How to Be More Productive as a Coder (Collection)

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: 👇

How to Convert an Octal Escape Sequence in Python – And Vice Versa?

This tutorial will show you how to convert an But let’s quickly recap what an octal escape sequence is in the first place! 👇 What Is An Octal Escape Sequence?💡 An Octal Escape Sequence is a backslash followed by 1-3 octal digits (0-7) such as \150 which encodes the ASCII character ‘h’. Each octal escape … Read more

Python | Split String Key Value

Summary: There are three different ways to split the given string into keys and values: Minimal Example Problem Formulation Problem: Given a string containing key-value pairs. How will you split the string to get the key-value pairs? Example You have to split the string given in the problem below using the delimiter “:” in such … Read more

Python | Split String Space

⭐Summary: Use “given string”.split(‘ ‘) to split the given string by space and store each word as an individual item in a list. Some other ways to split using space include using a list comprehension and the regex library. Minimal Example Problem Formulation 📜Problem: Given a string, how will you split the string into a … Read more

Python | Split String Carriage Return

⭐Summary: The most efficient way to split a string at carriage return (“\r”) is to use the split function like so given_string.split(). An alternate approach is to use different functions of the regex package to split the string at multiple whitespaces. Minimal Example Problem Formulation 📜Problem: Given a string. How will you split the string at carriage return? … Read more

Python | Split String Variable Spaces

⭐Summary: The most efficient way to split a string using variable spaces is to use the split function like so given_string.split(). An alternate approach is to use different functions of the regex package to split the string at multiple whitespaces. Minimal Example Problem Formulation 📜Problem: Given a string. How will you split the string using multiple spaces? Example … Read more

Python Binary String to ASCII String – and Vice Versa

Problem Formulation In this article, you’ll learn how to convert binary string (values) to an ASCII string in Python. For example, you may want to convert the binary string: 0110100001100101011011000110110001101111001000000111011101101111011100100110110001100100 to the ASCII text: hello world Using a simple Python script! 💬 Question: How would we write Python code to perform the binary to ASCII … Read more

Python | Split String Multiple Whitespaces

🍎Summary: The most efficient way to split a string using multiple whitespaces is to use the split function like so given_string.split(). An alternate approach is to use different functions of the regex package to split the string at multiple whitespaces. Minimal Example: Problem Formulation 📜Problem: Given a string. How will you split the string using … Read more

Python | Split String Reverse

Summary: There are three different ways to split the string and reverse it:🍎Using reversed() and join()🍎Using list slicing🍎Using numpy.flip() Minimal Example Problem Formulation 📜Problem: Given a string. How will you take a string, split it, reverse it and join it back together again using Python? Example: Let’s visualize the problem with the help of an … Read more

How to Sell Coupons on ETH? Integrate Frontend with Smart Contract (4/4)

How to Sell Coupons on ETH? Creating your own sample dApp in four parts: Welcome to the last part of the series. 🛑 Note: This is just a training “fun” dApp that shows you how to use React, Truffle, and Solidity. It is not a real dApp with real functionality! Imaginary Scenario: Finxter academy has … Read more

How to Sell Coupons on ETH? Web3.js and Connect Frontend with Metamask (3/4)

How to Sell Coupons on ETH? Creating your own sample dApp in four parts: Welcome to the front-end journey for the Finxter coupon Dapp. 🛑 Note: This is just a training “fun” dApp that shows you how to use React, Truffle, and Solidity. It is not a real dApp with real functionality! Imaginary Scenario: Finxter … Read more