How I got into coding.

Sree Chandan R — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 17:15:23 +0000

Ever since I was very young, I would buy electronic toys and after I played with them for sometime I would start to dismantle them. I collected the electronic parts, like boards, motors, gears and stuff with the hopes and dreams of building something with them someday. I even built a "flying" bird cage that did not fly using an unused bird cage (RIP birdy) and lots of electronic parts I collected. While it's 'wings' flapped it wasnt enough.
One day Someone introduced me to computers and even built me a PC to take home. I had it before I had a smartphone in my life. For a few years that computer meant nothing more than something to play games in and an excuse to make easy friends. My memories are faded but somehow I learned about coding. Even before I took Computer Science as my subject in my 11th and 12th I was learning to code by myself. I even took a tiny c/c++ course before I started my 11th. For some people this won't sound so good, but I could fail in every subject and not worry about it as I would do well in CS. Sure I worried a bit for all the social and parental pressure that was around me. I just wanted to learn coding and didn't know why they were force feeding me everything else.
I'm not a coding wizard, ninja or prodigy. I still am quite novice in coding. I don't know what the journey ahead is like for me but I'm very thankful to the person that introduced me to playing games on a computer and building me a computer to take home. It really set a positive direction in my life that I really needed.
Thanks for reading :)

Module, Package, Library

Sree Chandan R — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 18:54:38 +0000

December 2019

Preface:

I would like to consider myself as a newbie to coding. At some point, I got confused with a lot of coding lingos. Especially as I had to jump between python, javascript and for some time c sharp.
Hence this post is a learn-along. As I learn more I will update/modify this post with relevant elaboration and talk about some weird/edge cases.
official docs: https://docs.python.org/

For now, I will share in brief a little bit with Python in mind.

-- foo.py

That's a python file and also a python module.
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-- fooDir
   -- foo.py

That's just a python file(module) in a folder.
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-- fooDir
   -- __init__.py
   -- foo.py

Now that's a python package. Magic. The magic is __init__.py
A Package is a collection of modules neatly "packaged-up" into a directory. The __init__.py file is just how python recognizes that the directory is meant to be a package.

Now, whats a library?
A library is a collection of functionalities. It can be just a module or a package.

Next up: library vs framework vs API. That's spicy.

Thoughts

It is said teaching makes you learn better. And for the most part, these posts are a way of self-improvement for me. If you find any corrections you want to point out please do it, but try to be respectful.

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How I got into coding.

Module, Package, Library

December 2019

Preface:

Thoughts