My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

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In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

An exercise-driven course on Advanced Python Programming that was battle-tested several hundred times on the corporate-training circuit for more than a decade. Written by David Beazley, author of the ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Programming is a key transferable skill within the chemical sciences with applications ...

A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to eliminate the invasive Burmese python species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem. More than 900 people participated ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. A simple application that prints nothing more than the words Hello World is the seminal start to ...

Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...

Python saw a whopping increase of 9.3% in the Tiobe popularity index during 2024, despite already being rated the most popular programming language. To the surprise of probably no one, Python has won ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...