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  • Python Coding Interview Learning Path

    Josh Engroff

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    Introduction Most companies, when recruiting new software engineers, include at least one coding interview as part of their selection process. And why not? We’re software engineers, after all; writing (and reading) code is what we do.  Yet, even for the seasoned Pythonista, there is one coding interview that often feels disproportionately — and unnecessarily — stressful: the data structures and algorithms (DSA) interview.  Most of this stress arises from unfamiliarity and nothing else. When was the last time your boss, or the CEO, or anyone, asked you to calculate the nth number in a Fibonacci sequence or traverse a binary tree orimplement a hash table from scratch?…

  • PyBites Module of the Week: Openpyxl – Automate Excel!

    Bob Belderbos

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    You probably remember your first script. I remember the joy of discovering how I could let the machine automate something for me. It still gets me excited everyday. I played a bit with openpyxl yesterday. I used it to hack an Excel game for which I first used a macro. Not particularly useful but a nice exploration of this module.