A brief overview of strings in Python

To represent a sequence of characters, the string data type exists in Python — just as it does in other programming languages. Each individual character can be accessed via an index. The first character has index 0 (and not 1). A string is a sequence of characters and each character has an index starting from … Read more

Installing Rust on Windows

Rust is a very young language in the field of systems programming. The first stable version was released in 2015, but it was announced as early as 2010. It combines different programming paradigms, namely from functional, object-oriented, and concurrent programming. This means that programmers from other programming languages will quickly find familiar elements, but may … Read more

The Terminal App on a Mac

Terminal app on macOS

Within the Utilities folder, which is a subfolder of the Applications folder, you’ll find a collection of various useful applications. One of these is the Terminal program. Instead of navigating to the Utilities folder in Finder and then launching the program, you can use Spotlight search (keyboard shortcut: ⌘ + spacebar) and enter the word … Read more

Using the Ollama API with curl on macOS

Using Ollama API with curl

In a previous article, the basics of using local language models with Ollama were explained. This blog post is a continuation, discussing the use of an Application Programming Interface (API). In addition to the ollama command or the graphical user interface, the Ollama-managed language models can also be accessed via an API. To enable this, … Read more

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Introduction to C++

Screen showing a main function in C++

This introduction to the C++ programming language uses a simple program to teach some of the basics. I’ll be using an example from the articles on setting up a C++ programming environment (links at the end of this article). It’s a simple “Hello World” program: The main() function I would now like to discuss this … Read more