# My Updated Home-Office Setup — If you do work from home sometimes, I do recommend getting some of these to brighten up your coding experience too! 1) A long long screen Mine is a 34-Inch monitor from Dell with a longer-than-normal screen aspect ratio. Longer screen == more screen real estate == happier coding 2) External screens I work from my laptop (16-Inch…

# Why ‘yield’ can make your Python code faster — And this problem gets worse the more data we deal with. What if there are 1000 people in the line? The ‘return’ keyword def add10(x): return x + 10 x = add10(4) # x = 14 def get_takoballs(orders): output = [] for order in orders: output.append(f'{order} …

# Stuff I wish I learnt earlier as a beginner — There are lots of concepts we need to grasp in Python. And everyone learns them differently, in different sequences. Here are some things I wish I learnt much earlier when I was still a Python beginner. 1) Tuple Unpacking + Tuple Unpacking With * person = ['bob', 30, 'male'] name, age, gender = person # name='bob, age=30, gender='male' …

# this list keeps getting longer — 1) We can set variables dynamically using globals() a = 4 b = 5 ^ this is the same as: globals()['a'] = 4 globals()['b'] = 5 globals() is a dictionary containing all global variables, and we can set variables by add key-value pairs into globals(). (don’t do this in production code tho) 2) re.sub can take in functions # replacing vowels with - import re x…

# Another super step-by-step guide — I remember being confused as hell the first few times I tried this back when I was still learning JavaScript. This articles goes out to new JavaScript learners, and hopefully it makes your journey less painful. What we want to build A page with a button that increases a number by 1 when clicked. …

# A Super Step-By-Step Tutorial Using Selenium — Let’s say there’s a website. And on that website there’s a button. And we want to click on this button multiple times for some reason. And we want to automate this clicking using Python rather than manually clicking it. The website I’ve put together a simple (ugly) site with a button. When…

# The power of github pages — Some things Github Pages allows us to do: Create a site simply using a HTML file (we can add more tho) Deploy it for free Allow others on the internet to see your site (you are given a URL) Which could be an option for you if you want to…

# Other than print(), type() and len() — Built-in functions mean that we do not need to install any 3rd party library using pip to use them. At worst, we simply import the function from a built-in library and at best, we simply use the function. 1) pprint.pprint() pprint.pprint prints complicated data structures in an automatically-formatted manner. To use it…

# Why it’s a good idea & how to do this — As you start working on larger applications, chances are that you’ll start seeing custom exceptions more and more. And there is a good reason for this trend. Built-in VS Custom Exceptions Built-in exceptions are already defined and we don’t need to define them. print(1/0) # ZeroDivisionError x =…