Python is a high-level programming language known for its simplicity, readability, and flexibility. Created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, Python has since become one of the most ...

While we have the Python built-in function sum() which sums the elements of a sequence (provided the elements of the sequence are all of numeric type), it’s instructive to see how we can do this in a ...

A few months ago, I had a discussion with some friends online. The premise of the discussion was that even if you account for complexity, shorter code is more likely to be bug-free code. As a C ...

Dr. Lindsay K. Mattock for the the SLIS 5020 Computing Foundations course. Definitions and explanations in this lab are adapted from Kenneth Leroy Busbee and Dave Braunschweig, Programming ...

StopWatch operates on a notion of "spans" which represent scopes of code for which we want to measure timing. Spans can be nested and placed inside loops for aggregation. For example: with ...

Do you like adventures🏕 🏜 🏔 🛤? Well, I do. The for loops that we saw in the last post were like a bit less scary, known adventure. Whereas, the while loops that we are gonna discuss in this post ...

Hello, Pythonistas🙋‍♀️ Welcome back. Do you like to do the same thing over and over again😵? Most probably not. There’s a reason why some people count sheep🐑 when they are unable to fall asleep😴.

So I'm not a programmer, I took a few classes ages ago, but there are some Python scripts in use on the servers here so I figured I'd start. What I'm trying to do is call an API and get a chunk of ...