Uncover modern Python with this guide to Python data structures, design patterns, and effective object-oriented techniques. Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a popular design paradigm in which data ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

Another topic I covered with during my interview with Sun Microsystems' Joe Hartley was "Greenfoot," a tool that Sun helped develop (providing financial and consultative support to the developers) to ...

Python is powerful, extendable, intuitive programming language that you can use to automate test equipment. PyVISA is one of Python’s many libraries that extend its power to communicate with ...

As a system and application engineer, I’ve saved countless hours by automating measurements with software such as LabVIEW. Although I’ve used it to build measurement applications, I’ve started to ...

This book provides a thorough introduction to Python, starting with basic operations like arithmetic and variable creation.

Martin Buchwitz is editor of SPS Magazin in Germany. SPS Magazin has concentrated on the topic of engineering of control systems for a few months now, especially on programming. The reason for us ...