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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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