Marcus Sanatan

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Joined: Nov 27, 2018

I love many things and coding is one of them!

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Functional Programming in Python

Functional Programming is a popular programming paradigm closely linked to computer science's mathematical foundations. While there is no strict definition of what constitutes a functional language, we consider them to be languages that use functions to transform data. Python is not a functional programming language but it does incorporate some...

Marcus Sanatan

Feb 05, 2019·10 min read

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Understanding Recursive Functions with Python

When we think about repeating a task, we usually think about the for and while loops. These constructs allow us to perform iteration over a list, collection, etc. However, there's another form of repeating a task, in a slightly different manner. By calling a function within itself, to solve a...

Marcus Sanatan

Jan 30, 2019·9 min read

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Stacks and Queues in Python

Data structures organize storage in computers so that we can efficiently access and change data. Stacks and Queues are some of the earliest data structures defined in computer science. Simple to learn and easy to implement, their uses are common and you'll most likely find yourself incorporating them in your...

Marcus Sanatan

Jan 25, 2019·12 min read

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Building a GraphQL API with Django

Web APIs are the engines that power most of our applications today. For many years REST has been the dominant architecture for APIs, but in this article we will explore GraphQL. With REST APIs, you generally create URLs for every object of data that's accessible. Let's say we're building a...

Marcus Sanatan

Dec 10, 2018·24 min read

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Saving Text, JSON, and CSV to a File in Python

Saving data to a file is one of the most common programming tasks you may come across in your developer life. Generally, programs take some input and produce some output. There are numerous cases in which we'd want to persist these results. We may find ourselves saving data to a...

Marcus Sanatan

Nov 28, 2018·6 min read