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Short Bytes: The rankings published by HackerRank based on the average scores across their challenges throw light on the programming languages adopted in different countries across the world. The ranking has been ordered according to the popularity of Java programming language. HackerRank is a leading code practice arena. More than a million coders from around […]
Many people learn Python specifically just for hacking and when I first started with Python and moving from Java to Python personally felt a lot comfortable. When I needed to write a script which was not available on the internet I had to choose between Perl and Python. Because Perl is another very popular open source interpreted […]
Short Bytes: Why is Python now the most popular programming language taught in high-schools, computer science, and engineering schools? Python’s high-level approach and English-like syntax make it easy to learn, easy to write, and easy to extend. Python is the new de facto learning language around the world and here is why. Python was introduced […]
Short Bytes: Have you ever wanted to create an app that can be used on PC, and OS X without the extra effort? What about Android and iOS? Kivy allows you do that with many additional features such as OpenGL ES rendering, custom widgets, and full multi-touch and orientation/tilt support. Kivy is a Free and Open […]
Short Bytes: The 2016 Workforce-Skill Preparedness Report of PayScale, a salary tracking site, is out with many interesting trends related to the current tech job scenario. The report outlines that Go, Scala, and Python, along with big data tech provide the highest boost in your paycheck. If you are willing to grab a big bite of […]
Short Bytes: If you are looking for a Python to JavaScript converter, JavaScripthon is worth checking out. JavaScripthon completes the conversion process without any full python-in-js environment. Read more to know everything about the project. So many, Python and JavaScript seem like similar languages — object oriented, functional hybrid, dynamically typed and a rich library. […]
Short Bytes: Python is one of the most popular programming languages around and it’s a lot easier to learn than others. Microsoft has recently shown its Python-love by starting a Python Engineering blog. Know more about the applications of Python programming language at Microsoft and this blog. Programming is a powerful tool that you can […]
Short Bytes: In this article, I’m sharing the efforts of a programmer to create his own python-powered personal assistant. Using open source libraries for text-to-speech conversion and speech recognition, he describes a way to create a personal “Jarvis”. As his 2016’s challenge, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he’ll be coding his own […]
Part of the point in presenting small, hack-minded tutorials a la “Edit an Image in Python” or “Send an Email from Python” is that some subset of readers who actually follow the steps will wind up interested enough in the subject(s) to go deeper on their own. I can present a detailed recipe, but learning […]
Short Bytes: Today I’m sharing a clever implementation of Hangman in python by programmer Danver Braganza. Take a look at this 3-lines-long program and try to make it more compact. You might have come across Python scripts teaching you how to code the classic game “Hangman”. For those who don’t know, it’s a word guessing game for […]
Short Bytes: The Dark Web is the World Wide Web content that exists in the darkness. The Dark Web consists of networks which use the public Internet but require specific software and authorization to get access to the website. These websites are not indexed by the search engines and are also not easily accessible to […]
Short Bytes: Participating in a hackathon and after a 20-hours long coding session, two programmers have written a python-based programming language called TrumpScript. This language is something Donal Trump would approve of. Take a look at the rules and syntax of the language and know more. Sam Shadwell and Chris Brown, two computer science students, […]
This small piece of python code will find the people stealing your tweets and copy-pasting them on their twitter timeline. This python script project is called TweetThief, you can download this python code on GitHub. Author of this project is David Longenecker, you can follow him on twitter @dnlongen. You need to have Twitter API module for […]
Short Bytes: Web crawler is a program that browses the Internet (World Wide Web) in a predetermined, configurable and automated manner and performs given action on crawled content. Search engines like Google and Yahoo use spidering as a means of providing up-to-date data. Webhose.io, a company which provides direct access to live data from hundreds of […]