Hacker News in Python

You may the popular news aggregator “Hacker News” from the sought-after investment company YCombinator. It’s a great place for coders and geeks to share new articles and pearls they found on the web. Sebastian, an active member of the Finxter community, asked the following question: “Wouldn’t it be great to have such a platform specifically … Read more

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Science — What’s the Difference?

Answer: Deep learning is a subarea of machine learning which is a subarea of artificial intelligence. Data science is an interdisciplinary area that combines all of those with math and programming skills to extract useful insights from data. “I’m trying to understand how the area of skills are related to each other, and one is … Read more

How to Boost Your Intelligence? 10 Tips From Science

This book chapter from “Brain Games Python” provides you with tips to help you become a more intelligent human being. Ignore them at your own risk! 1. Sleep More Sleep deprivation reduces your intelligence [Killgore 2008]. Say, you decide to sleep only six instead of eight hours from now on. Congratulations, you’ve gained 8% more … Read more

How Fake News are Holding You Back in Python

Experts in their field read more books! The rise of “Fake News” shows that the quality of information is a valuable asset of the information society. With poor quality of information comes poor knowledge and expertise. Let’s order the content types based on the quality of information they tend to generate (from low quality to … Read more

How to Send Emails in Python?

Python provides a native Email class for handling email messages. This makes adding email sending functionality to your Python app an easy task. In this guest post, we will demonstrate how to use Python modules and classes to build and send emails via SMTP as well as how to properly test them. We will focus … Read more

Simple Guide to Python close()

In Python, you must open files before you can read data from the file and write new data into the file. Python’s close() method closes an open file. You can call the close() method multiple times. However, after closing the file, you cannot access its data anymore. The close() method takes no parameter and has … Read more

Attention, Python Coder! What Can You Learn from the StackOverflow 2019 Developer Study?

The yearly StackOverflow Developer Study is the largest of its kind. Every year, more than 90,000 developers participate by answering a 20-minute questionnaire. Because of the great insights, the StackOverflow study is a must-read for uprising developers and coding talents. This article gives you a short overview of the key highlights of the survey. Interestingly, you can … Read more