Installing or updating Python can sometimes be a little tricky and it’s confusing to understand which version is actually installed. Don’t worry in this tutorial we show you how to handle that. One of the downsides of Python is setting up the environment in a correct way and the fact that there are a multitude …
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Python and the Building Blocks of Programming
Table of Contents Python and the Building Blocks of Programming Goals of This Post Series Building Blocks of a Program Examples of how building blocks are used Building block 1 – Variables Exercise Python and the Building Blocks of Programming Goals of This Post Series You will learn the anatomy of a program and what …
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How we deploy our Discord bot
Having a Discord bot is a cool feature on your server. If you have landed here from a search on how to deploy your Discord bot then chances are you’re still curious on how to do that. The options for deploying a Discord bot are several, as we outline in our quick overview of how …
3 ways to host your own Discord Bot
Having your own Discord Bot can be a nice way of adding a custom experience to your users on the server. There are a couple of things to take into consideration when you want a Discord Bot on your server. You can first of course look if your needs are met by a bot from …
How to open a file in Python in different modes
Opening a file in Python is really simple. How do you create a file though that doesn’t exist? If you use the open function in Python like so You’ll run into the error Mode for open a file We need to understand that opening a file can be followed by a mode parameter, the signature …
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Getting started with Javascript
If you want to start programming in Javascript you might ask where do you actually start? It might be that you’ve been interested in learning more about web programming in general, for which it would be useful to also learn about HTML and CSS as well. While HTML and CSS deal with the structure of …
How to setup Matomo with MariaDB on Docker
This will spin up a Matomo instance on MariaDB running on the default port 3306. You can then access the Matomo instance to continue the installation by navigation to your hostname:3306. E.g. if you’re running this on your VPS it will be your http://<VPS IP>:3306 http://localhost:3306 if you’re on your local dev machine. The above …
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Javascript true and false values
In Javascript comparing values are not always as straightforward as one would expect. Overcoming that fear of which variables are truthy are sometimes is just as easy as learning which values are falsy. If you remember them (6 values) then you can easily know which values are true. NaN false undefined ”, “”, “ – …
Java or Javascript
What is the difference between Java and Javascript? This confusion is very common and just because they share the same prefix Java it is easy to think they are somehow related. Java is a general programming language used heavily today for writing applications designed to run on desktops or servers. Although Java applications can be …