Ever wondered how people can say with 100% security where a circle intersects a line? No? Me too, but still I have decided to try to show how this is done. With Python it looks like a piece of cake. …
Getting a list of all folders within a given folder is actually a single line command. Writing it to Excel is usually another line. Getting all files, within these folders is not a lot as well. However, having a tool …
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Ok, currently the BTC is 68 491,28 USD and instead of feeling bad for not buying it, you can try to simulate it the mining process with Python just for fun. It is an interesting way to have fun, but …
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Here is an explanation of the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) in a few simple points: Explanation: The Central Limit Theorem states that the distribution of the sample means (averages) of a large number of samples from any population will be …
Object oriented programming (OOP) in general is a huge topic, but I have decided to make a 30 minute video, based on the book Math for Programmers, as I liked the way it was explained there: Generally, in the video, …
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Talking about dot products in linear algebra can be really a subject of hours, but long story short this is probably the minimal knowledge you can live with: The dot product (inner product) is an operation on 2 vectors that …
Plotting 2d and 3d vectors into a 3d space can be actually fun. Using mainly the code from Math for Programmers, I am presenting in this video an example of plotting 2d into 3d and back, using identity matrix and …
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Working with Python and Excel is actually quite handy, especially if you are into it. In this article, you can see how to create Excel files, write data and formulas into them and read these. Pretty much simple CRUD methods. …
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In the previous article, the post and get API methods were presented. In this one, Put and Delete are coming. 🙂 Well, nothing that fancy, this is how these two methods look like: # Update item by id @app.route(‘/api/items/<int:item_id>’, methods=[‘PUT’]) …
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This is the second video for the “Python API with Flask” series, showing how to make POST and GET commands towards a dummy database, which is a python list in our case. We are using only CREATE and READ commands …
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Flask is actually really a powerful tool for making an API. In the video below, you would see how quickly I am building an API, that does four really simple functions. The functions are – saying “Hello”, multiplying a number by …
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In the attached video below, I am simply showing the following 3 pieces of code with Jupyter Notebook: Remove spaces in dataframe columns. Remove none values from dataframe rows. Filter dataframes, based on values. E.g. – put all rows with …
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Have you ever dreamt about coding classes like a pro? No? You had “normal” dreams? Anyway, in the video below, I am solving 3 exercises with a lot of debugging and some basic tests. Exercises are from the book Python …
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Finally! Microsoft did it! Put python in MS Excel! And I was able to install it and test it on my machine! The video of my attempts is here below: The “code” is that one: def factorial(a): print(a) if (a …
Python allows decent built-in logging. As I am going to explain in the video below, the built-in logging is actually rather neat – it allows everyone to log into a file or into the console within minutes – just the …
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Another YouTube video for Python – this time, about reading and writing to files. It is a bit interesting, if these are your first steps with Python, for me it was a nice reminder of how the “things” used to …
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As one of the acknoledged reviewers of the Manning book Python How-To, I have decided to make a YouTube video, based on a part of the book, mentioning Lambda Expressions. The video is here, and the code I have used …
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Creamer’s rule for a solution of linear equations states pretty much the following: Using this interesting picture from the German Wikipedia, I have created the following video, explaining a bit the Rule of Mr. Cramer: The video goes through the …
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Following the step-by-step original tutorial here, I have created a simple Azure video tutorial, explaining how to deploy a python flask web app with local git. The idea to have something on your own PC and then simply using this …
Same article, but for VBA is here – https://www.vitoshacademy.com/vba-split-worksheet-to-worksheets-save-excel-worksheets-to-csv/ This article does 2 things: Splits one worksheet to multiple worksheets Then goes through the worksheets and saves them as *.CSV files So what is the idea? Having this excel file, …
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Some time ago, probably yesterday or the day before, I had to filter a pandas dataframe and somehow it did not come intuitively into my mind how to do it. As I did not have an article about it, I …
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Ok, dates in VBA and Excel are somehow complicated, because of some “feature” that Microsoft Excel has introduced, due to compatibility issues. I have already wrote a few articles about these here, and separate one about what day is Friday …
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Sometimes, (but only sometimes) we think that writing too much code is useless and writing less code in python is more readable and performs faster. While in the general case this is true, this article is simply going to show …
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Plenty of times, when you are looping with a for-each loop in python, you somehow realize that you need a counter. Then you most probably write something ugly like this one: a = 0 for count_value in my_odd_squares: a = …
Plotting a circle with matplotlib library in python is an interesting task. If you google it, you will find quite good answers, but anyway, I am here because I want to summarize my point of view. Pretty much, the idea …
Dictionary to a CSV file is probably a good question, if you are hiring a VBA developer. For a python person it should be a trivial one, as this one should not be even a tough search in Google. Anyway, …
Getting some tiny URL, that redirects you to somewhere else might be dangerous. There are a lot of people, that would never ever click on bit.ly/something or goo.gl/something, just because they do not know where the redirect is going to …
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Sometimes you need to do what you need to do – use Regular Expressions for a trivial task. Now, imagine that you have some big text and you need to extract all substrings from the text between two specific words …
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Reading from a pdf is actually quite an easy task with Python. If the PDF is of course “readable”, e.g. made from a word processor. The first thing to do is to install Tika and Java: pip install tika conda …
After writing about Default Dictionary in Python some time ago, now it is time to take a look at the ordered dictionary and the heap queue as these are built-in structures, coming out of the box. And they are fancy. …