Written by Byte Academy student, Jason Pruski
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How To Choose The Right Tech Stack For You
Topics: Student Stories fullstack students Python programming Programming Tips tech stack
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How to Break Into Machine Learning
Everyone seems to be intrigued by Machine Learning, which has become a "buzz word" lately. Although intimidating, you can certainly break into the field, or learn more about another phrase we hear a lot, Natural Language Processing. Read some tips and background from Data Scientist, Lesley Cordero, who teaches our Data Science course. Lesley also teaches a class in machine learning for those interested in the particular area.
Topics: Natural Language Processing Machine Learning Big Data Careers Data Engineer Data Science Programming Tips
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Crypto Exchanges: What's The Difference/Which Should I Pick?
With the increasing number of cryptocurrencies available nowadays, it’s the right time to look at how to trade in cryptocurrencies. We start with examining your potential objectives, and from thereon, we look at the various factors you should consider before choosing the right trading platform. We also list prominent cryptocurrency exchanges, along with their pros and cons.
Topics: finance Cryptocurrency Bitcoin Blockchain
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Blockless Digital Ledger Technology (DLT) & IoT
We interviewed Kevin Chen, who left his role from Wall Street upon realizing that blockchain technology could disrupt his career there, and decided to make this switch before that happens. He is now the Founder and Head of the IOTA Evangelist Network (IEN) which spreads awareness of “blockless” (non-blockchain) digital ledger technology (DLT), particularly IOTA’s Tangle protocol (some may also be familiar with IOTA’s native cryptocurrency that reached as high as $15 billion in market cap and top 5 of all cryptocurrencies late last year ).
Topics: DLT internet of things Startup digital ledger Bitcoin iot Interview Blockchain
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Top Five Reasons To Fall In Love With Programming
This Valentine's Day we want to express our love for programming - we've narrowed it to our top five. We are particularly passionate for Python, the coding language which our full-stack curriculum emphasizes. It's also used heavily in the data sciences, one of our courses we feel tingly about. Maybe once you learn some more about programming, you'll fall in love too.
Topics: love Python valentines day Light Reads Data Science
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Intro to SQLite3 With Python's Flask
Our new instructor Jeff is also an author, here are some tips from his blog, a great coding resource:
I’ve got a URL shortening website like Bitly that allows you to submit a link, then gives you a new, hopefully shorter url to use for that link. I built it with Python and the Flask microframework.
Right now, a user enters a URL at my flask app, such as “www.jeffreymaxim.com”. My python code will generate a random key for that site, such as “98rDv64O”. It will store both the original URL and the key in a python dictionary like so:
<span class="s1">my_links["www.jeffreymaxim.com"] = "98rDv64O"</span>
So that I’ve got an entry in the my_links dictionary that looks like this:
<span class="s1">{'www.jeffreymaxim.com': '98rDv64O'}</span>
This code allows me to redirect a user from herokuapp to jeffmaxim.com .
The problem here is that this dictionary only lives in the local memory of my machine while my app is running. As soon as I restart my server, that whole dictionary and all my links and keys gets deleted.
The solution is to implement a database.
Topics: SQL jeff maxim Python Programming Tips
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Artificial Intelligence: Where did it come from? Where is it going?
Topics: Machine Learning AI Data Science
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The Latest FinTech Innovations For Millennials
“We’re from Reno, Nevada - we love games like this.”
Topics: Finovate FinTech Startup millennial Millennials events
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Coding Bootcamp Alumni Survey
Course Report, a leader in coding bootcamp information, recently published its 2015 Course Report Outcomes and Demographics Study survey of recent alumni. National publications such as Forbes and Business Insider have been picking up the news. Here’s our take on a few items, two in each category.
Topics: Student Stories Careers Python bootcamp
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Computational Science 101
Read tips from Byte's Data Scientist, Lesley Cordero, regarding how to get started in computational science.
