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Note: This article has now moved here: Iterable: Python's Stepping Stones – What makes an iterable iterable? Part 1 of the Data Structure Categories Series Here's an introduction to the article: You're familiar with data structures such as lists, dictionaries, tuples, sets, and more. You may even know about the similarities and differences between their… Continue reading What’s a Python Iterable? [Python Data Structure Series #1]
When I was young, we played arcade games in their original form on tall rectangular coin-operated machines with buttons and joysticks. These games had a resurgence as smartphone apps in recent years, useful to keep one occupied during a long commute. In this article, I'll resurrect one as a 2D Python game and use it… Continue reading Anatomy of a 2D Game using Python’s turtle and Object-Oriented Programming
Allow me a rare blog post which is not about some Python topic or a step-by-step tutorial. We're excited that The Python Coding Place is coming soon. As the name says, this will be the place to learn to code in Python. In this brief post, I'll highlight what The Place is all about The… Continue reading The Python Coding Place Is Coming Soon…
In the first three articles in this Series, you familiarised yourself with the key terms when dealing with functions. You also explored positional and keyword arguments and optional arguments with default values. In this article, you'll look at different types of optional arguments. Rather unfortunately, these are often referred to by the obscure names args… Continue reading Argh! What are args and kwargs in Python? [Intermediate Python Functions Series #4]
With so many new Star Trek series coming out at the moment and in the near future, new and old Trekkies are all asking the same question: How do they build the starships in the Star Trek universe? Or maybe it's just me? This article will boldly go on a journey through classes and objects… Continue reading How Do They Build The Starships in Star Trek? Classes and Objects in Python
Over the past couple of years, I've decided to start ticking things off my lifetime to-do list. We all have things "we'd like to do at some point when we have time." I finally started carving time out of my days to do these things. In the past two years, I've learned touch-typing (that's right,… Continue reading Python Readability, the PEP 8 Style Guide, and Learning Latin
One of the many applications of programming in Python is simulating the real world. In some cases, the simulation is a way of solving a problem that would be difficult or impossible to solve using other means. In this article, you'll explore simulating orbiting planets in a solar system using Python. You'll create code that… Continue reading Simulating Orbiting Planets in a Solar System Using Python (Orbiting Planets Series #1)
What are the individual units that make up an image? Sure, one answer is pixels, each having a certain value. Another surprising one is sine functions with different parameters. In this article, I’ll convince you that any two-dimensional (2D) image can be reconstructed using only sine functions and nothing else. I’ll guide you through the… Continue reading How to Create Any Image Using Only Sine Functions | 2D Fourier Transform in Python
You've probably already learned about defining functions in Python and how to add parameters and return statements. You may even have learned about more advanced features of Python functions. But can you picture exactly what they do and what's really happening behind the scenes when you call a function? In this blog, I'll build on… Continue reading Understanding Python Functions With The Function Room (The White Room Series #2)
When you learn Python coding, you start by learning about the tools you'll need and the rules for each one of those tools. You learn the syntax of the for loop and what it does, for example. With time, you also learn when to use this tool and when not to use it. What's more… Continue reading Monty Will Help You Learn Python Coding, But Who’s Monty? (The White Room Series #1)