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The 7 Deadly Sins of Software Testing: A blog about software testing. https://python-github.com/python-github/2018/04/12/the-7-deadly-sins-of-software-testing/ No one is perfect, and neither is any software. It has been a long journey for many companies to embrace software testing as part of the development cycle, because developers are not the only ones who find it hard to admit mistakes. […]

The Basic Differences Between C and Visual Basic One of the most frequent questions asked by programmers considering a move from Visual Basic to C A tutorial on the fundamental differences between C++ and Visual Basic programming, including a description of basic code elements. Visual Basic is a component-based programming language, whereas C++ is an […]

I have been coding for over 20 odd years and I have always wanted to distill that knowledge into a format that others can learn from. Coding is such an important skill in today’s world, and it is not difficult or impossible to learn. I had begun working on my own version of the Khan […]

How can you exit your program? Well, there are a few ways. One way is to use the sys module and use its exit function, like this: import sys sys.exit() Another way is to raise an exception, using the keyword raise. This is another way to exit a program abruptly. raise SystemExit Or you can […]

Lossy Image Compression: DCT In the last few blog posts, I introduced a new image compression algorithm. This algorithm uses a modified version of the discrete cosine transform (DCT). The basic idea behind this algorithm is to group pixels into 8×8 blocks, and then use the DCT to convert each block into 64 frequency coefficients. […]

JavaScript is an amazing language. It’s extremely powerful, and it makes the web what it is today. But without the right tooling, it can be challenging to use. If you’re looking for JavaScript debugging tools, look no further! There are plenty of great tools out there that can help you debug your problems — whether […]

How To Make Your Business Cards Stand Out: a blog on how to make your business card stand out. How To Make Your Business Cards Stand Out: a blog on how to make your business card stand out. How To Make Your Business Cards Stand Out For many people, their business card is the one […]

I hadn’t used the official Microsoft editor for a long time, but with the new release of Visual Studio Code (VS Code), I thought it was a good idea to revisit it. For those who don’t know, VS code is a source code editor, so it’s different from Visual Studio. The latter has a lot […]

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 is now available. This release comes with a lot of new features and improvements for AI, mobile and desktop applications, Microsoft Azure development, and more. You can read about these features in detail in the blog post What’s New in Visual Studio 2017 Release 15.7. Some of the notable features […]

How To Choose A Good Programmer This is a guide for nontechnical managers who need to hire programmers. If you are one of those managers, then you probably have a list of questions you ask in an interview that you think will help you decide if someone is good. I hope to convince you that […]