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Nowadays, most programs are written in a high-level language such as C, Java, or Python. These languages are designed more for people, rather than machines, by hiding some hardware details of a specific computer from the programmer. Simply put, high-level languages simplify the job of telling a computer what to...
Mila Lukic
Deploying an application requires developers to put thought and consideration into how it is configured. Many apps are deployed in a development environment before being deployed to the production environment. We need to ensure each environment is configured correctly, it could be disastrous if our production application was using our...
Marcus Sanatan
A Python generator is a function that produces a sequence of results. It works by maintaining its local state, so that the function can resume again exactly where it left off when called subsequent times. Thus, you can think of a generator as something like a powerful iterator. The state...
Scott Robinson
In this article we go over the Python file types .pyc, .pyo and .pyd, and how they're used to store bytecode that will be imported by other Python programs. You might have worked with .py files writing Python code, but you want to know what these other file types do...
Tendai Mutunhire
Python is a unique language in that it is fairly easy to learn, given its straight-forward syntax, yet still extremely powerful. There are a lot more features under the hood than you might realize. While I could be referring to quite a few different things with this statement, in this...
For a long time, user authentication on the web consisted of storing some very simple data (like a user ID) in the user's browser as a cookie. This worked pretty well (and still does for many applications), but sometimes you require some more flexibility. Traditionally, to get this flexibility you...
As any experienced programmer knows, dates and times are incredibly common in most application-level code. You might use dates for tracking the creation of an object, to track the time since an event occurred, or to save the date of an upcoming event. However, dates aren't easy to work with,...
When you think of a database the first things that might come in to your head might be MySQL, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL. While these are all great choices for storing data, they're all over-powered for the majority of applications. Consider a desktop chat application written with the Electron framework in...
JavaScript is undoubtedly one of the most popular programming languages out there today, and for good reason. It can easily be run in your browser, on a server, on your desktop, or even on your phone as an app. One of the most popular and easiest ways to write JavaScript...
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