Articles tagged with python

1. rc-niceties

   A frequent comment about the Recurse Center is "everyone here is so nice!" Perhaps due to careful admissions, or the social rules, RC participants strive to keep it a supportive community where people are open to others: working together, communicating carefully, and respecting each other. One mechanism for building the …

2. Outreachy

   Last month I applied to Outreachy, a paid internship for non-students from underrepresented groups in technology. Instead of interviewing based on your resume, part of the application involves making a contribution to the open source project you're hoping to work for. Since the internship employers tend to be big names …

3. Cost of Drinking

   When I started at the Recurse Center, I had several vague ideas of projects I wanted to work on. A throwaway comment on the price of beer in Budapest inspired me to see if beer could be used as a cost of living metric. The first maps I found polled …

4. PageRanking RC Zulip

   Over the past couple of weeks, I and some colleagues in the Mastering Large Datasets with Python group have been practicing our new ability to scrape and process large amount of data with Spark, by harvesting public messages from the RC Zulip and analyzing them. (For those unfamiliar with Zulip …

5. Three Things Learned

   I haven't been keeping up with this blog, but I have been keeping busy. A few things I've learned recently:

   • Although JavaScript has a typeof command, it doesn't produce very useful output. In particular, it yields object no matter whether the structure in question is a Map, an Array, a …

6. Buffer the Slayer

   When I was teaching programming at the Workshop School, I eventually expected my students to learn about object-oriented programming (OOP). As it’s not a paradigm I use frequently, I wanted to refresh my memory, both about OOP and about how to teach it. So I dug up a project …

7. Advent of Code

   Advent of Code is an annual challenge during the month of December, posing short puzzles that generally require code to solve. Although I've never seriously competed, I have completed for my own enjoyment every puzzle from 2016, and nearly every one from 2015. The solutions from 2016 are annotated for …

8. Berrybasket

   In 2013 my partner Daniel and I were teaching at The Hacktory, a Philadelphia makerspace, mostly about circuits. A friend approached us about teaming up with an elementary science teacher for a unit on datalogging in (cardboard) houses, since Daniel's former job involved datalogging in (real) houses. The students were …