This python crash course book on Amazon is great for beginners who want to learn programming. It teaches Python basics step-by-step and includes exercises to help you practice. You’ll build real ...

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Trump administration has taken a big step toward curbing Medicare Advantage overpayments, proposing a rule that would stamp out one strategy insurers use to inflate their members’ sicknesses to ...

Minimalist plotting for Python, inspired by Edward Tufte’s principles of data visualization. Maximising the data–ink ratio: remove non-essential lines, marks, and colours. Content-driven spines and ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

What’s the best way to bring your AI agent ideas to life: a sleek, no-code platform or the raw power of a programming language? It’s a question that sparks debate among developers, entrepreneurs, and ...

DeepSeek’s announced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) model compresses text-heavy data into images and reduces vision tokens per image by up to 20x while retaining 97% accuracy (10x compression) or ...

Can the users of financial statements and annual reports rely upon the charts in them for accuracy? A sample of 50 public companies’ yearly reports collected by the author found that 86% had at least ...

If you use Excel 40 hours a week (and those are the weeks you are on vacation), welcome to the MrExcel channel. Home to 2,400 free Excel tutorials. Bill "MrExcel" Jelen is the author of 67 books about ...

Sometimes, reading Python code just isn’t enough to see what’s really going on. You can stare at lines for hours and still miss how variables change, or why a bug keeps popping up. That’s where a ...

Google Colab, also known as Colaboratory, is a free online tool from Google that lets you write and run Python code directly in your browser. It works like Jupyter Notebook but without the hassle of ...