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Python is a high level, dynamically and strongly typed programming language that encourages readability.
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Should we use python 2.6 or 2.7 or 3.x?
The version of python which I am using is 2.6, and there is a 2.7 and 3.x. Usually I use python for some trivial program/snippet. I realize there are some major difference between 2.x and 3.x. I would ...
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Programming language usage at Google
I have heard Google uses Python, Java and C++. But what I don't know is how is each of those programming language is used. I mean what is Python, Java and C++ is used for at Google. Why would they ...
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Which server side framework/language should I use
I am an iOS developer. I love objective-c and the cocoa/cocoa-touch framework. I was wondering what's a programming language/ framework for server side programming that best mimics or closely ...
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What are hooks ?-python
I keep coming across this term hooks in various programming articles. However I don't understand what they are, and how can they be used . So I just wanted to know what is the concept of hooks; if ...
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Next steps for Asp.Net C# developer (RoR vs Python Django vs PhP Drupal)
A majority of my web development experience has been on the .Net stack (mainly Asp.net C#). I am looking to learn something new in my spare time, for the use of personal projects and possibly for use ...
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What are some good ways for an intermediate programmer to build skills?
Preface: I work mostly in Python, and Web Dev languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript and Jquery, PHP)
I'm proficient at coding but I want to get better. In larger more advanced projects my programming ...
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Learning to program in C (coming from Python)
If this is the wrong place to ask this question, please let me know.
I'm a Python programmer by occupation. I would love to learn C. Indeed, I have tried many times, but I always get discouraged. In ...
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How can I prevent a client from seeing my code written in an interpreted language?
I'm building a fairly complex interpreted program in Python. I've been working on most of this code for other purposes for a few months, and therefore don't want my client to be able to simply copy ...
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why there is no power operator in java / c ++?
While there is such operator - ** in Python , i was wondering why java and c++ havent got one too.
It is easy to make one for classes you define in C++ with operator overloading ( and i believe ...
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Learning Python is good? [closed]
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Is Python worth learning? Is it a useful tool?
Recently I have seen some videos from MIT on computer programming topics. I found it's really worth watching. Especially ...
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TTS on App Engine
I have written a small front-end to the Festival TTS system using Python/Django. I wish to deploy it on the Google App Engine cloud. A few questions:
My application uses the Festival app ...
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Is Perl still a useful, viable language?
I know it may have been asked before, but here goes nothing...
Is Perl still something that would be considered useful? If someone was a new programmer (either completely new to programming or just a ...
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Why does the word “Pythonic” exist? [closed]
Honestly, I hate the word "Pythonic" -- it's used as a simple synonym of "good" in many circles, and I think that's pretentious. Those who use it are silently saying that good code cannot be written ...
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Python: Future as a major programming language? [closed]
After reading some Python material and seeing some Python code a few years back I decided to give it a whirl. I decided to start with Python to solve the problems on Project Euler and was throughly ...
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