Many languages start running your program by calling a function of
yours that must have a specific name. In C (and many C derived
languages), this is just called main(); in Go, it's main.main()
(the main() function in the main package). Python famously
do... (more…)
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The first known case of burnout in the field of open-source software, van Rossum speculated, may have been Charles Babbage, who gave up the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (the “Chair of Newton”) at Cambridge University in 1839. (more…)
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Regex is a group of characters which helps to find pattern within a string. Regex is used in lot of applications including the search engines, search and for find and replace in text documents... (more…)
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This is a picture quiz that will test your knowledge of Python current affairs to the limits. Before the year ends, it’s also a great way…...
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What is internationalization, when should you add it to your program, and how do you get started? This week Dwayne Bailey and Ryan Northey tell us about their work with Translate House and the different projects that they have built to make translating yo...
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