Thoughts on Programming
In programming, it’s common to need to compare values with each other. To accomplish this, Python provides six comparison operators, which are listed in the following table: Operator Meaning < less than <= less than or equal to > greater than >= greater than or equal to == equal to != not equal to The … Read more
Basic operators can be summarized as those that are essentially known from mathematics and that are used in programming for daily practice. The following table provides an overview of these arithmetic operators. Operator Meaning + Addition – Subtraction * Multiplication / Division ** Exponentiation // Integer Division (Quotient) % Modulo (Remainder) The Python shell (IDLE) … Read more
This blog post is all about numeric data types—in other words, numbers. Python provides the following data types for working with numbers: I won’t go into detail about complex numbers here, as in practice, the focus is clearly on the int and float types. int The int data type includes positive and negative whole numbers: … Read more
An earlier blog post explained how to access the Ollama API from the shell using the curl program. If the gemma3 model is used as a local AI on the system, it might look like this: In this article, we’ll take a look at the Python programming language and how to use the requests library. … Read more
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