Thoughts on Programming
Bodo Schönfeld The linear search is the simplest approach to search for an element in a data set. This search algorithm iterates over all elements – from the beginning to the end – of a list until the element searched for is found. The result in the following example is the index of the value found. This … Read more
A Python project may initially consist of only one or two files. In this case, you don’t have to worry about a project structure. But the situation is different if the program grows. In addition to the actual Python code files, documentation could also be added at some point. And as a rule, the tests … Read more
Google now offers the option to use Markdown syntax for Google Docs. This is interesting for those users who want to use text shortcuts to format their documents. For example, with support for Markdown activated, a first-order heading can now be introduced with a hash (#). Google Docs automatically converts the following text into a … Read more
After queues and stacks, the third article on data structures deals with linked lists. This data structure has nodes that are connected to each other. Each node has a value and a pointer. The following figure shows a singly linked list where each node has only one pointer pointing to the next node. The first … Read more
An updated version of the Python program imessage-reader is available on PyPI (Python Package Index). The new version can be installed via pip: Windows users will have to be patient. The imessage-reader can be installed, but an error message appears indicating that the operating system is not yet supported: However, this will change in the … Read more