Thoughts on Programming
In the first part of this tutorial series on data structures in Python, queues were explained. Stacks follow in the second part. A stack is also a data structure that is similar to the list. But there is a significant difference: There are several rules that dictate how items must be added or removed. New …
A queue is a data structure similar to a list. However, the functionality is of a limited nature, because a queue is characterized by the fact that the FIFO principle (First In, First Out) applies here. This means that the first item added to a queue is the first item removed. Adding data is called …
This article is about type hints in Python. In addition, it is also an article on the subject of artificial intelligence. Because the following text was created by an AI. However, not ChatGPT, but YouWrite was used. This is the writing AI of the You.com search engine. Here is the answer I got from this …
The Python programming language is already pre-installed on Debian, but usually in an old version. A current version cannot be added from the standard repositories, but with a few shell commands you get a current version on your linux system. Let’s start with the required packages and their dependencies: Next, download the Python version you …
Introduction What does a virtual development environment do? It isolates different Python versions and their package installations from each other. Once set up for a Python project, this means that the packages used are only available to this project. Updating one of these packages does not affect other packages installed on the system. In addition, …
The current events on Twitter are more exciting than some TV series. (I was about to quit Netflix.) Even though some journalists already see Twitter’s end, I think it’s open how this story ends. But I have to admit that it doesn’t look good for Twitter at the moment. Yesterday, hundreds of employees left Twitter …
Some time ago I familiarized myself with the topic of web scraping. As a programming language, the decision quickly falls on Python, since there are good libraries available for this task. When dealing with a new topic, it is not a bad idea to do so creating a self-developed program. The result is: fetch-hackernews. As …