When you read a date or time from a text file, user input, or a database, you are likely to get the date information as a string. It is helpful to convert the string to a datetime object since it will allow you to do more advanced functions. In today’s article, I will discuss and […]

In languages like C, you have Switch statements allowing you to evaluate the input, then have a few options for the output.  Switch statements are used in place of a series of if/else statements in order to make your code more readable.  Case statements can also have better performance than a traditional if/else setup.  This

This article will describe the process of getting Tensorflow working on OSX.  By the end of the article, you will have all the prerequisites installed to allow you to run Tensorflow-based python applications on your MacOS/OSX computer. Install Homebrew Homebrew is a package manager for OSX.  It is similar to apt-get on Ubuntu or yum

In this article, we will cover python basics. We will discuss what is python, where you can download python from, the basic syntax of python, how to input and output information in and out of your python scripts, how to do loops, conditional operators (if/else/elif), and how to write basic functions. What is Python? Python

By default Python only gives you a single environment for your whole system.  This means when you install Python, or a package using Pip, you are installing that version of python or that version of the python package for the entire system.  And all scripts you run will interact with that same version of python

If you’ve ever tried to share your Python project with a colleague or deploy it on a new machine, you may have run into the dreaded “It works on my machine” problem. It’s a frustrating situation where your code works perfectly in your environment but throws errors elsewhere due to missing or mismatched dependencies. This