Writing code can be a rewarding experience and like in any form of writing, there may be ways to ensure that your readers (including your future self) are able to understand and engage with your… Read More »Using SwiftLint with a Configuration File
Running tasks in parallel is one of the great things we can do with computers – and mobile devices. This is called concurrency and it was the main focus for Week 7 of my iOS… Read More »iOS Development – Week 7
With information from the patterns we reviews and described on Part 1 of this post we were able to identify and implement some of the patterns in our own app. This meant doing some refactoring… Read More »iOS Development – Week 6 – Part 2
Week 6… well this time it was a lot of very interesting content and I am not sure one single week would be enough to do it justice. The aim was to look at Design… Read More »iOS Development – Week 6 – Part 1
As I mentioned last time, I have enrolled in an iOS bootcamp to reinforce my iOS and Swift skills. As part of the bootcamp we are asked to choose a project to develop into a… Read More »iOS Development – Jelly Belly
Python and R are not the only programming languages used in data science or machine learning applications. In a recent post in the Domino Data Blog I argue about the usefulness of MATLAB. Check the… Read More »Using MATLAB for Data Science and Machine Learning
I am posting this as an extended response to the quesiton that a medic friend of mine asked me the other day. The main question was whether learning Java or Python was best for getting… Read More »Programming First Steps: Java or Python?
I came across the image above in the Slack channel of the University of Hertfordshire Centre for Astrophysics Research. It summarises some of the fundamental knowledge in computer science that was assumed necessary at some… Read More »Computer Programming Knowledge
Working with dates and times in programming can be a painful test at times. In Python, there are some excellent libraries that help with all the pain, and recently I became aware of Pendulum. It… Read More »Python – Pendulum
Python retains its top spot in the fifth annual IEEE Spectrum top programming language rankings, and also gains a designation as an “embedded language”. Data science language R remains the only domain-specific slot in the… Read More »IEEE Language Rankings 2018