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It's possible to build a simple Python CLI weather app in a weekend using geopy, requests, and the NWS JSON API. Use geopy's ...

Python is an amazingly versatile programming language that can be used for everything from building software to help experiments run more smoothly, to visualizing and graphing data. Like any language, ...

IN DECEMBER 1989 Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist, set himself a Christmas project. Irked by shortcomings in other programming languages, he wanted to build his own. His principles were ...

I work in a lab where laptops are pervasive. They pushed out calculators, which decades earlier did the same to slide rules. As calculators become more powerful, for some jobs the Prime could be more ...

Apple’s Swift Playgrounds is a great way to learn how to program in Swift using just an iPad, but there are several other code languages out there. For those interested in learning Python, developer ...

Over the last month, Google has announced a number of advancements to how they will be measuring user experience through key speed and performance metrics. Coincidentally, I have been working on ...

One of Python’s most persistent limitations is how unnecessarily difficult it is to take a Python program and give it to another user as a self-contained click-to-run package. The design of the Python ...

This past semester, I took an introductory Python course with roughly fifty undergraduate and a handful of graduate peers. The course—“COMP 10: Computer Science For All”—was designed specifically for ...