Problem Formulation The following problem formulation is taken from this Kata. Design a recursive function called replicate(times, number) that returns an array of repetitions of the number argument. For example, replicate(3, 5) should return the list [5, 5, 5]. If the times argument is negative, return an empty array. Do not use loops to solve … Read more
Problem Formulation Given an image stored at image.jpeg, a target width and height in pixels, and a target starting point (upper-left) x and y in the coordinate system. How to crop the given image in Python OpenCV so that the resulting image has width * height size? Here’s an example of how the original image … Read more
What made the internet overflow with Java language courses and people searching every other second on Google? If you search for the term “learn Java”, you’ll end up with more than 160 million results. In this article, we’ll examine if this hype is a mere exaggeration or if you as a software engineer should consider … Read more
Have you stumbled upon the strange-looking Python operator A |= B in a code snippet and you don’t know what it means? This article will clarify it once and for all! Let’s start with the short answer: Python’s A |= B applies the | operator in place. Thus, it is semantically identical to the longer-form … Read more
Can you earn money for cryptocurrencies? With the increasing adoption of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano, the question naturally arise: can you sell your services for cryptocurrencies BTC, ETH, or ADA instead of USD, EUR, or CHF? The answer is: YES. And it gets better: the main idea of the blockchain is to … Read more
You have the eyes of your mother. One could say, you “inherited” the eyes of your mother. As you may have guessed, this article is about inheritance in Python. Inheritance is one of the most important features of object orientation. It’s a simple and intuitive concept but even advanced coders circumvent using inheritance because they … Read more
What is the Internet Computer? The Internet Computer is blockchain technology and computing infrastructure initiated by the non-profit organization DFinity. Like the public Internet, the Internet Computer is a distributed computing platform consisting of thousands of connected and decentralized servers that host backend software. This idea mitigates the increasing monopolization of Internet services and enables … Read more
Python provides three ways to stop a while loop: The while loop condition is checked once per iteration. If it evaluates to False, the program ends the loop and proceeds with the first statement after the loop construct. The keyword break terminates a loop immediately. The program proceeds with the first statement after the loop … Read more
A couple of years ago, I fell into the habit of creating cheat sheets when exploring certain areas in the programming space. Over time, hundreds of thousands of Finxters have downloaded and used them in their own learning journeys. However, the cheat sheets are largely scattered around many different locations on the Finxter ecosystem. And … Read more
In Python, everything is an object. Even integers are objects — this is different from programming languages like Java where integers, floats, and Booleans are primitive data types. In this way, Python is built on a rigorously consistent object-oriented paradigm. Considering that objects are everywhere in Python, object-oriented programming is not well studied by Python … Read more
? This tutorial will show you the most simple and straightforward way to implement linear regression in Python—by using scikit-learn’s linear regression functionality. I have written this tutorial as part of my book Python One-Liners where I present how expert coders accomplish a lot in a little bit of code. Feel free to bookmark and download … Read more
This article gives you everything you need to know about sets in Python. To make it a bit more fun, I have used Harry Potter examples throughout the article. What is a Python Set? The set data structure is one of the basic collection data types in Python and many other programming languages. In fact, … Read more