Python Freelancing: My First Fiverr Gig and How I Solved It

Basic Webscraping Script in Python | Requests | BeautifulSoup | ArgParse Sold Gig ($35) This is the gig description I offered on my profile to get my first gig: An email marketing company hired me to write a Python script that satisfies the following requirements. Requirements What is the input? (file, file type, email, text,…) … Read more

Python String Replace

A few years ago, the Google company officially renamed to Alphabet. Imagine you’re asked to rename all occurrences of the name “Google” with the occurrences of the name “Alphabet” in internal documents. Would you do it by hand? As a coder, you would automate it! Fortunately, Python’s str.replace() method comes to help to replace occurrences … Read more

[Summary] Independent Work: Choice, Necessity, and the Gig Economy

McKinsey Authors: James Manyika | San FranciscoSusan Lund | WashingtonJacques Bughin | BrusselsKelsey Robinson | San FranciscoJan Mischke | ZurichDeepa Mahajan | San Francisco Anyone who has ever felt trapped in a cubicle, annoyed by a micromanaging boss, or fed up with office politics has probably dreamed of leaving it all behind and going it … Read more

Upwork vs Fiverr: What Every Developer Ought to Know

The landscape of work undergoes a major disruption. More and more work is delivered online. And who are the biggest winners? The stakeholders of the top freelancing platforms: Upwork and Fiverr: Stockholder who own Upwork and Fiverr, Employees working for Upwork and Fiverr, Freelancers offering their services on Upwork and Fiverr, and Business owners who … Read more

Python One Line For Loop With If

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This tutorial will teach you how to write one-line for loops in Python using the popular expert feature of list comprehension. After you’ve learned the basics of list comprehension, you’ll learn how to restrict list comprehensions so that you can write custom filters quickly and effectively. Are you ready? Let’s roll up your sleeves and … Read more

This 5-Step Free Python Learning Path Will Unlock Your Coding Superpower [Absolute Beginners]

In this article, I’ll show you five free resources you can study to reach an intermediate Python level being an absolute beginner. Studying all the resources will take 20-40 hours. But after you’ve completed these steps, you’ll have created yourself a new high-income skill Python development. So, let’s get started! Step 1: Complete Python Crash … Read more

HTML Parsing using Python and LXML

In this article, you’ll learn the basics of parsing an HTML document using Python and the LXML library. Introduction Data is the most important ingredient in programming. It comes in all shapes and forms. Sometimes it is placed inside documents such as CSV or JSON, but sometimes it is stored on the internet or in … Read more