I need posts, like now

I now face one of the most challenging thing ever for a blogger… creativity. I should have posted an «other» but related post a while ago, but I  did not, why?, because I am lazy. That is the problem, I was too lazy to post, and now I need something to post; so in this post I am not only going to tell you the sad story about my lazyness, but also show how not to be a student in KenCourses.

• Never miss a class, unless you have to
• Always use the time in class to work in something related to it
• Do not do in other classes what you can do in Ken’s Courses
• Do not be lazy like me
• Do not do everything at the last minute
• Do not do empty posts to cheat the course
• Be creative with what you do
• Try to ask your classmates if you need help
• Use twitter more often
• Ask on #TC101
• Answer questions on #TC101
• Try to comment on other people’s blogs to congratulate them or give them feedback
• Do not play League of Legends on campus
• Do not Pokemon GO to the polls
• I am out of ideas
• This is not the Zen of KenCourses
• Thou shalt not cheat
• Post like crazy (things related to the class)
• Green is not a creative color
• Keep scrolling

Now let’s be serious, do not be lazy, just try to work harder; Ken’s class is as important as the other ones, just try to make an effort.

Now go and code some stuff.

 

 

«Real hacking is not fun»

So I wanted to make an «other» but related post as the holy rubric states. I do not know if any of you wonder why hacking is depicted like an almost magic task in TV shows or movies; and the reason is that real hacking is not fun to watch, or at least that is what I have heard from a lot of people in the industry. But last year, a show called «Mr. Robot» was released on Amazon, and I have to say it truly achieved to make real hacking an entertaining task. So in my non-Mastery topic post but related to programming I wanted to give «Mr. Robot» a try. It has currently finished its second season (have not watched it) and is really worth your time.

Also a link describing more what I just said: https://www.engadget.com/2015/08/29/the-many-surprisingly-realistic-hacks-of-mr-robot/

 

I think I do not get modules

I need to import them so I can do some stuff that python alone cannot do. They seem like a cool thing to have around, but there are so many of them that I do not even now which one to use; I have to be mainstream and use the math one. I mean, in javascript I did not even know I was using modules, and now I have to specify which one I am using. I know how to import them and all that stuff, but I think I need to get my favorites, or else I will not like any of them; did that make sense? I think not, but you get me. I am a desperate student who is pressured by the exams. Anyway, here is my code:I just printed system32. And I am very happy.

Monty Python and the Zen of Coding

I think I get it, but I do not get it.

It’s kind of funny how someone could actually come up with this.

«Zen of Python»

Tim Peters must be a genius, Monty Python level:

I mean, coming up with a philosophy for a coding language is just pure gold.

Link for the Zen: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

This Zen just summarizes the simplicity and utility of python.

A radius function

So I wanted to create a simple function, and I needed to do a math homework; so as the great millenial that I am, I solved my problems by doing two tasks at once:

Behold my sphere function!

I am really proud of my work, the only problem that I had was with converting the input to integers.

Ignore the comment at the beginning, I wast just testing if I knew how to use functions.

Post = {Basic types: same but different}

Well, we need to learn the basic types beacuse python. So I am going to explain them the easy way, as always; in python there are these things called variables, that have no personality whatsoever; thus, they need you to define them by assigning them values. In python there are three kinds of values:

Numbers: which are integers (1), floats (1.0), and complex (1j). These are super simple.

Strings: They are words. «Words»

Lists: They can be a list of both strings and numbers.

Tuple: They are basically lists that cannot be modified.

Dictionaty: They consist of a key and a value; it is weird to explain.

And to show you that I have practiced them:

But I need to give credit to the page that actually showed me those basic types (that happens to be the second entry in the google search):

Link: https://www.tutorialspoint.com//python3/python_variable_types.htm

 

 

How to while while iffing while elsing while inputing while printing

I mean, I could do the whiles and the ifs/elses/elifs in separated posts, but since I did a very easy code, I decided to just post everything at once (because, if you have not noticed, I am a little bit lazy)

As you can see, my loop is one of the most basic ones you could ever imagine; what I tried to depict in this code was that more than 5 is too much.

Lynda.com helped me to understand the basics, later I’ll try to do more complicated codes in the next few weeks.