Category Archives: Python

Help! My Else Clause Does Not Execute!

Sometimes people write code with if/else statements, but the else statements never execute, regardless of what they type in to be checked in their conditions. Let us consider two examples of such cases. I will use Python to illustrate the points. Scenario 1: if a or b user_answer = input(“Do you want to continue? y/n:… Read More »

Getting Started With APIs – Bonus Tasks

The Story So Far In our first article in this series, we looked at what APIs are and what they are used for. In the second article, we wrote a simple Python program that fetches some data from an API. In this article, we will introduce a loop, so that we can get historical data… Read More »

Where To Learn Python Programming

I am in a number of Python (programming language) groups on Facebook. One very common question in those groups is “Where can I learn Python?” I assume that people also ask this question outside Facebook, so here is a list of free resources to learn Python (and other technologies) for beginners. The list is not… Read More »