Python’s new JIT compiler might be the biggest speed boost we’ve seen in a while, but it’s not without bumps. Get that news and more, in this week’s report.

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

This research aims to reactivate object-oriented databases using intelligent tools to improve performance and accuracy in modern work environments that require processing large amounts of complex data ...

Functions are the building blocks of Python programming. They let you organize your code, reduce repetition, and make your programs more readable and reusable. Whether you’re writing small scripts or ...

An Introduction to Programming and Computer Science with Python, second edition is a free, open source textbook available under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Originally developed for UVM’s CS 1210 ...

When you install Python packages into a given instance of Python, the default behavior is for the package’s files to be copied into the target installation. But sometimes you don’t want to copy the ...

Introductory programming courses are considered difficult and challenging for students. They have to focus on and develop different skills related to problem-solving and programming domains ...

Abstract: Programming courses teach the programming concepts and then practice these concepts to solve the programming problem simultaneously. Therefore, students find it difficult, and a relatively ...

One of the most useful new features that Microsoft has incorporated into Excel in recent years is the ability to incorporate Python code directly into a spreadsheet. While it has long been possible to ...

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 ...

The legend of the Tower of Babel depicts the fact that humans lost the ability to speak a common language and began to use different dialects, making communication between them far more difficult.