In the early days of C, you’d occasionally see someone — probably a former Pascal programmer — write something like this: #define BEGIN { #define END } This would usually initiate complaints about ...

In the following example, we loop through a list of numbers, and use the variable digit to hold each number in turn: Strings in Python are considered “sequences” — they can be iterated over, and the ...

You can write a Python program or use a Jupyter Notebook to do almost anything. But you can also get a lot of things done quickly using a spreadsheet. Grist is a “hacker’s” spreadsheet that merges ...

Loops are a commonly used structure in programming that allows you to repeat a block of code a set number of times, or until you meet a particular condition. This is useful for many reasons. For ...

Python is the programming language of choice at Google and Dropbox, but it is also very beginner-friendly. This bundle of six courses teaches it from scratch, all the way up to advanced techniques. In ...