Learning about Software Coding Practices

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

So, this post is for mentioning the new things that I learned about coding principles in general in the Udacity's AWS Machine Learning Foundations Course. …more

Installing NodeJS binaries in KDE Neon

Monday, July 6, 2020

So, I was learning React and decided to install NodeJS for setting up a local dev environment. The official downloads page pointed me to the binaries for Linux. Now I have worked with binaries and tarballs, but I forgot what's needed to be done after extraction 😂 …more

Building GCompris in KDE Neon

Friday, June 19, 2020

So here is my first blog of the year. I was finally able to start writing again 😁 This time I will be talking about building GCompris. …more

Creating a Pull Request

Saturday, August 17, 2019

In life, when you want to make changes to someone else`s work, its proper to request. …more

Reading PYM book: Day 3

Friday, August 16, 2019

Data Structures Lists were discussed in more detail. Lists were used as stack using the pop() function and as queues using pop(index) function. List comprehension: concise way of creating lists Tuples: elements seperated by commas, enclosed within parentheses. Tuples are immutable. I didn’t know that we could create a tuple with a single value by adding a trailing comma. a = (123,)…more

Reading PYM book: Day 2

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

if-else Want to give your program the power of decision-making? Just add if-else statements to the code. This is where the identation practices come into play. (Wrong output despite the if-else statement can frustate you :P) if-else can be nested and can also be extended by elif statements (if you have more than 2 choices) Truth value testing: Another good practice if x: # code statements and not x == True:…more

Reading PYM book: Day 1

Monday, August 12, 2019

Recently, I was suggested to read the book Python for you and me, for learning Python programming language. …more

Automating Image Scraping

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Yeah, this is the second part of image scraping blog. You see, even after making the script, I was not satisfied. …more

Git Wizardry

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

The following is a monologue I have made to make learning git a bit more interesting. Any resemblance to the some other story is purely coincidental. None of the git commands have been abused during the making of this post :P In case you may get confused: Spells - Files Incantations - Commands Records/Magic Book - Repository Hello there! I am your teacher at the School of Terminal Wizardry and I will be teaching you Git Magic.…more

Scraping Images for Good

Sunday, July 14, 2019

So, in #dgplug training, someone shared a blog on depressed-developers. After that, we were suggested to try writing a script to retrieve the latest images that were published on the site. …more