Uncomplicating Technology
Uncomplicating Technology
This section contains posts about programming and scripting
Stop words are the words that are filtered out when a computer is doing natural language processing. Which words are stop words? There is no single list of stop words. The stop words you use will vary depending on the specific project you were working on. In python, there is a library called the natural …
When writing programs and scripts, it is important that you follow standards in the way you structure your data. These standards are what allows one program to generate some data, another program to consume that data. It is also used when one program needs to save some data for use later on. This structured data …
All modern programming languages have the concept of functions or methods. Functions and methods are the same things, but depending on the specific language you are using, they are called one or the other. Functions and methods are one way you can create reusable blocks of code. Then call them over and over throughout your …
As you are writing your software, you need to ensure everything is working properly. You can best achieve your goal through the use of automated and manual tests. There are four main categories of tests are: Unit Integration Functional (AKA Systems Tests) Acceptance Later in this article, we will discuss what each of these tests …
When working in with data in any programming language, it is very common to use both JSON and CSV data structures. Today we will discuss how you can convert your JSON files to CSV files. And how to convert your CSV files into JSON files. There are a variety of reasons you might want to …
If you do any sort of automation, you have probably done a fair amount of work using the CLI on your computer. This is applicable regardless of the platform. If you use Python you might have asked yourself how you could start making your own command line utilities to help you in your daily …
If you have browsed any python projects on Github or elsewhere, you have probably noticed a file called requirements.txt This requirements.txt file is used for specifying what python packages are required to run the project you are looking at. Typically the requirements.txt file is located in the root directory of your project. If you open …
MacOS ships with Python 2.7 Pre-installed. This is helpful when you are just getting started with Python since you can just start using it with no setup. Unfortunately, Python 2.7 is going out of support in 2020, so we all need to get to upgrading to Python 3. When you start upgrading Python, there is …
Unit testing is the act of testing a small unit of your code. Generally, this means you are testing a function or a class in isolation. If you are doing this unit testing manually, you simply run your function, then check and make sure it gave you the expected output. This is what you have …
Agile is a set of principles that developers can follow to be more effective in developing their software. The whole thing started with a set of principles that were developed by a group of industry leaders back in 2001. Given that Agile is a set of principles, it is more guidelines vs strict rules to …