When I first got into Python, I read lots of blog posts that mentioned that Python was “the batteries included language”, but those same posts were short on any explanation of what that really meant. A few years and lots of projects later, I think I’m now qualified to at least give a beginner a…
Month: January 2010
Intro to Python 101 For Beginners
If you code Python already, go somewhere else. I’m only talking to complete and total newbies to the language right now. I want to show them the stuff that I wished someone had put in one nice, neat blog post for easy consumption when I got started with the language. If that’s what you’re looking…
If You Don’t Date Your Work, It Sucks.
I probably get more upset than is reasonable when I come across articles with no date on them. I scroll furiously for a few minutes, try to see if the date was put in some stupid place like the fine print written in almost-white-on-white at the bottom of the post surrounded by ads. Then I…
Head first into javascript (and jQuery)
So, I had to take a break from doing the Code Katas just as I was getting to the really cool one about Bloom Filters. The reason for the unexpected break from kata-ing was that I had a project thrown into my lap. I say “project” not because it was some huge thing that needed…