Introduction The purpose of this blog post is to explore issues related to the selection of a first programming language for CS majors. I... (more…)

Official Python Developers Survey 2020 Results by Python Software Foundation and JetBrains: more than 28k responses from more than 150 countries. (more…)

This week, Twitter upped their single-tweet character limit from 140 to 280, purportedly based on this interesting analysis of tweet lengths published on Twitter's engineering blog. The gist of the analysis is this: English language tweets display a rough... (more…)

Lean how to scrape the web with Selenium and Python with this step by step tutorial. We will use Selenium to automate Hacker News login. (more…)

Today we are excited to announce we’re open-sourcing MonkeyType, our tool for automatically adding type annotations to your Python 3 code… (more…)