Exception handling in python is actually quite an interesting topic. In general, the exceptions in programming could be of three types: syntactic errors – these would be noticed by your IDE or by the interpretor, thus you do not need…
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VBA – Source Control with Git – Video
VBA and source control? Do you know what is VBA? Are you sure we can source control the code, that resides in Excel? Oh, you mean that lengthy way of extracting the modules one by one? But why? Don’t you…
Using API calls with VBA and Python to Read and Write to a Database
Using API calls with VBA and Python to write a database is actually a pretty decent architecture. Here, I would like to say that “It takes the best of the both worlds”, but the truth is that it takes the…
Python – Virtual Environment
This is a short step-by-step introduction on how to build virtual environment in Python and how to use it. Virtual envirnments keep dependencies, required by the specific project separated. Thus, it is the “clean and clear” place of the project,…
VBA – Compute All Combinations of a Given Set
Yesterday I received an email, refering to some 2 old articles in VitoshAcademy for nested loops without recursion: VBA – Nested loops with recursion (Permutations) VBA – Avoid nested loops with recursion (Part 2) As far as the person from…
VBA – Cells and Ranges in Excel – Video
Cells and ranges in Excel are quite interesting, as these will always give some points to think of. About an year, after writing the article about VBA – Cells and Ranges in Excel (A bit more than the standard story),…
VBA – How to locate a value in an Excel row?
Most probably you feel like you have a good clue already how to locate a value in a given Excel row. There are plenty of ways – Find() , looking through the cells one by one, looking through the Internet for…
How to declare as decimal in VBA
More than 3 years ago, I wrote an article about floating point numbers in Excel and a tiny problem with those, concerning all floating point numbers. This article is actually a nice one and it is worth reading – What…
VBA – Convert Month Name to Number and Vice Versa
Convert number to name – [3 -> March] Converting month number to name in VBA is actually coming out of the box with the MonthName() function, which is built-in the stanard VBA library:
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Sub MonthNameExample() Dim i As Long For i = 1 To 12 Debug.Print MonthName(i) Debug.Print Format(MonthName(i, True)) Next End Sub |
The result is not flabbergasting, but…
VBA Debugging – Video
I have decided to make a 19 minute YouTube video, to explain the basics of VBA debugging, as there are quite a few tricks that not everyone knows. The agenda: Properties Window -> F4 Immediate Window -> Ctrl + G…
VBA – Copying Excel worksheet to a new workbook without leaving the old Excel reference
Copying excel worksheets around is actually a piece of cake for a VBA developer (or so they/we think). Mainly because you can record the actions and then “learn” from them, editing a bit the code and etc. Well, there is…
VBA – Copy Worksheet
Copying worksheet in VBA is actually a trivial task – use the macro recorder see the code and use it further. Anyway, if you are coding professionally with VBA (yup, we still exist:), you somehow get stomach problems, whenever you…
Python – Django Girls – Introduction to Django – Video
Months ago, I was planning to take part in the #RailGirls event in Sofia, and I was even a partner in the event. Anyway, as it was postponed up to somewhere in the future, I have decided to go through…
Python – Writing Unit Tests with unittest library – Video
In the previous article for abstraction and inheritance I wrote some classes, showing the basics of these two programming concepts. In this one, I will write unit tests for one of the classes, written before. Software testing is an important…
Tagged with: error catching in unit test, Python, setup, teardown, type error unit test, unittest, writing unit tests
Python – Abstraction and Inheritance – Video
Abstract classes in Python are classes that inherit from the ABC (Abstract base class). In the video below, I have solved a problem, showing how 2 classes inherit from an abstract class and implement its methods. The abstract class is…
Python – Closure
In this article I am planning to give an answer of the following two questions: What is a closure? A closure is a function, inheriting variables from enclosing environment. Operationally, a closure is a record storing a function together with…
Python – Abstract Methods and Abstract Class – Live Coding Video
Abstract class and abstract methods are one of the pillars of Object Oriented Programming. In Python, an abstract class is a class, inheriting from Abstract Base Classes (ABC) library. And an abstract method is a method of this class, which…
Python – Permutations and Combinations Made Easy with Itertools
Long time ago, various people, including me, were trying to make permutations and combinations with nested loops and various other “heavy” structures. Anyway, in Python there is a library, which does this for us and sets the end of the…
Python – Defining Classes and Methods with Python – LiveCoding Video
Today I have decided to check whether I can pass the first homework from SoftUni OOP with Python, through a live coding session. I have not read the problem before the video, thus I may say it took me exactly…
Python – The End of the Matrix Wandering
Ok. This article is for all the people, who have written code like this one:
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if direction == "left" then if column > 0 then: new_row = current_row new_col = current_col - 1 |
When they were solving a problem like this one: You know who you are. You are probably thinking what is wrong with it? After…
Python – Making Maps with Cartopy
Cartopy is a Python package designed for geospatial data processing in order to produce maps and other geospatial data analyses. Making a map with Python and Cartopy is actually easier than you might think, but still it has its own…
Python – Bayes’ theorem – Drug testing example. 99% is not enough!
The Bayes’ theorem is interesting, as far as it is both quite challenging to understand and shocking once you really realize the simplicity of the numbers behind it. It describes the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions that…
Python – Linear Regression
In 2013 and 2014 (wow, already 7 years ago!) I wrote two articles about linear regression with Excel. Now, I am getting more and more interested in Python, thus I guess it would be interesting to remake the article into…
Tagged with: linear regression, plotting, plotting both predicted and real values, prediction, Python
Python – Building New Columns in a Dataframe, Based on Other Columns
Working with python, pandas and dataframes is quite challenging even for experienced Excel & VBA developer, as I love to consider myself for one. Thus, today I was fighting for quite some time to add new columns to a dataframe,…
Tagged with: adding columns, based on columns, based on rows, computating column, dataframe, offset, Python, shift, shifting column
Python – *args, **kwargs and the normal ones (arg)
The good, the bad and the ugly is a famous western. In Python, “the ugly” is probably the **kwargs, as far as it has two stars before it. Anyhow, the idea of *args, **kwargs and arg is simply to pass arguments.…
Python – List Comprehension
List comprehension in Python is creation of lists from iterables and other lists, following a condition. It is lightning fast and it looks nice, because it is a 1 liner. In this article, I will show a few examples of…
Tagged with: conditions, dictionary comprehension, examples, list comprehension, matrix comprehension, Python
Python – What is the idea of “-1” in numpy reshape?
Today I was “fighting” with the numpy reshape function and I found something strange like matrix.reshape(1, -1). Thus, I have researched quite some time and I found, that the -1 is actually a placeholder for python to change the dimensions of…
Python – How to write string into a matrix. Printing a matrix.
Writing string into a matrix seems like a non-interesting and somehow trivial task. Anyway, manipulating with matrices and strings in Python is actually somehow interesting, thus I have decided to present a small algorithmic challenge. The task is pretty much…
VBA – String.Format or how to put variables in a string
C#, Python, Java and all the other “fancy” languages have a built-in method, which writes variables into a string. VBA does not have one. Depending on why do we need it, and if we can guarantee that no injection would…
VBA – Make a list of the formula errors in an Excel
Errors in Excel are different – from “Division by Zero” (#Div/0) and #Name to #REF! and #Num. There are lots of ways to summarize these into some kind of report and in the current article I will show the VBA…
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