Python libraries are pre-written collections of code designed to simplify programming by providing ready-made functions for specific tasks. They eliminate the need to write repetitive code and cover ...

Python might be the most popular programming language in the world, but unlike other frontrunner JavaScript, you can't run Python code in the browser. At PyCon 2022, the annual conference for its ...

The coding sector is rife with useful tools designed to make your programming tasks as efficient and painless as possible. Jupyter Notebook is one such utility, which combines a note-taking and data ...

Microsoft is continuing its push to make its developer tools relevant to data scientists. Starting today, February 15, Microsoft's light-weight Visual Studio (VS) Code editor is shipping as part of ...

Serving tens of millions of developers, Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code shipped a new release with three major new features, including a "full" language server mode for Pylance, ...

I have used bash scripts for years because they are ubiquitous and fast to prototype. Over time, my small helpers turned into a tangle of chained commands and fragile pipes. I finally decided to ...

In the spirit of continual learning and, as a follow on to my previous blog, Line Regulation Measurement Coding in Python, I thought I would continue discussing coding for measurements by providing an ...

I recently facilitated a workshop for high school physics teachers in South Africa (two workshops actually---one in Johannesburg and one in Cape Town). The goal of the workshop was to introduce ...