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Python Function Decorators

Posted on February 5, 2015. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

Function decorators enable the addition of new functionality to a function without altering the function’s original functionality Python Function Decorators

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What is a NoSQL Database? Learn By Writing One In Python

Posted on September 2, 2014. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , |

What is a NoSQL Database? Learn By Writing One In Python NoSQL is a term that has become ubiquitous in recent years. But what does “NoSQL” actually mean? How and why is it useful? In this article, we’ll answer these questions by creating a toy NoSQL database in pure Python (or, as I like to […]

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30 Python Language Features and Tricks You May Not Know About

Posted on March 8, 2014. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

30 Python Language Features and Tricks You May Not Know About Since I started learning Python, I decided to maintain an often visited list of “tricks”. Any time I saw a piece of code that made me think “Cool! I didn’t know you could do that!” I experimented with it until I understood it and […]

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Python Best Practice Patterns

Posted on February 28, 2014. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

Notes from Vladimir Keleshev’s talk Python Best Practice Patterns [English, 38 minutes], given on May 2, 2013 at the Python Meetup in Denmark.

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50 resources for beginner to intermediate Python programmers

Posted on January 20, 2014. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , |

Here’s a categorized list of 50 Python resources I’ve found to be very helpful while teaching myself the language over the last 8 months or so. Thought you all might find them helpful too.

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Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures

Posted on January 7, 2014. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures is a book and an interactive website that uses python to solve fun-looking problems. Contents: Algorithm Analysis Basic Data Structures: Stacks, Queues, Deques, Lists Recursion Sorting and Searching: Bubble, Selection, Insertion, Shell, Merge and Quick sorts Trees and Tree Agorithms: Binary Tree, Priority Queues, Binary Heaps, Binary Search […]

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TPP vs the subset sum problem

Posted on August 9, 2013. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

A colleague of mine, told me about an interesting kata along with a hint that it can be solved efficiently by applying dynamic programming. To be honest, I never really dived into the topic of dynamic programming. I’ve heard the term before, and I knew that some classes of problems could be efficiently solved with […]

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Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design

Posted on July 5, 2013. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design The intent of this book is to help the beginning designer by giving them a sequence of interesting and moderately complex exercises in OO design. This book can also help managers develop a level of comfort with the process of OO software development. The applications we will build are a […]

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Python for Android

Posted on May 5, 2013. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

How to install Python for Android using Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) 2013-01-29 @ somethingpython.blogspot.co.uk

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Understanding Python decorators

Posted on April 8, 2013. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

To understand decorators, you must first understand that functions are objects in Python. This has important consequences. Understanding Python decorators

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