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In the last post introducing Python, I demonstrated how to make a simple app using variables and conditional statements. In order to do anything really powerful in a given programming language though, ...

A quiet revolution is reshaping enterprise data engineering. Python developers are building production data pipelines in ...

Interested in learning Python but don't know where to start? I'll walk you through the basics of the ever-popular programming language step-by-step. In an hour or so, you'll go from zero to writing ...

Python trades runtime speed for programmer convenience, and most of the time it’s a good tradeoff. One doesn’t typically need the raw speed of C for most workaday applications. And when you need to ...

The Python programming language serves as a scripting language suited for quick programming tasks. It's more accessible to small business owners and others who are casual programmers than other ...