Python

Fantasy Football is a nerdy game. By saying that, there is no way you can win the championship without studying it. That’s how web scraping comes in handy. In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a web scraping tool to accomplish the job. You can now curate valuable data automatically into one spreadsheet promptly. Rather than looking up ...

The standard deviation allows you to measure how spread out numbers in a data set are. Large values of standard deviations show that elements in a data set are spread further apart from their mean value. In this tutorial, we will calculate the standard deviation using Python Small standard deviations show that items don’t deviate significantly from the mean value ...

If you haven’t heard, Python 3.8 features a rather controversial new operator called the walrus operator. In this article, I’ll share some of my first impressions as well as the views from all sides. Feel free to share some of your thoughts as well in the comments. Understanding the Walrus Operator Recently, I was browsing dev.to, and I found a ...

Colab is the Google’s platform for working with Python notebooks and practice Deep Learning using different frameworks. It is a powerful platform, there is availability of GPUs or TPUs, it allows to use your Google Drive space for notebooks and data, has a friendly user interface and lots of useful features, but in order to install/update Python packages, it comes ...

As someone who teaches a lot of beginner programming content, I occasionally stumble upon questions like “how do you print on the same line in Python?” Luckily, I have an answer to that! In short, there are two main ways to print on the same line in Python. For Python 2, use the following print syntax: print "Williamson",. For Python ...

It’s been awhile since I’ve written one of these “how to” articles, but I’m back at it. This time, I want to talk about string formatting using techniques like interpolation and concatenation. In other words, it’s time to finally learn how to format a string in Python Problem Introduction Whether we’re trying to prompt a user or output a nice ...

The zip() function in Python programming is a built-in standard function that takes multiple iterables or containers as parameters. An iterable in Python is an object that can be iterated or stepped through like a collection. The zip() function is used to map the same indexes of more than one iterable. Mapping these indexes will generate a zip object How ...

Welcome back from another hiatus! This post is a facepalm post because I recently realized that I’ve been an idiot for so long. I have a tendency to make things more complicated than they need to be, as can be seen in my articles about instance properties. I’ve briefly mentioned unbound attributes (Class.attr returns a function that you pass an ...

A couple of years ago, I have blogged about Python vs Java and which programming language a beginner should learn or which programming language is better to get started with programming, but now the question has changed. It’s no more about Java but its about JavaScript. Now the choice is between Python or JavaScript. Don’t get me wrong, I am ...