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Using DataCamp for getting familiar with Data Science concepts

I am sharing a collection of classes in DataCamp that may help you in getting familiar with data science concepts in a practical manner. DataCamp is a paid service, however, students can normally use it for free. Probably the university where you are studying have an institutional subscription or, if that is not the case,…

Free Resources that will Warm Up your Programming Environment

Free Resources That Will Warm Up Your Programming Environment

This article considers some free resources to warm up your programming environment. These are particularly useful if you plan to do a programming oriented thesis where you analyze data by writing some code. A functional working environment is useful independently from what you will be doing. It may sound like an annoying task where you…

The Present, the Past, and the Future of Programming Languages: A Historical Perspective

What language should I learn? Would you like to understand the future of programming languages? Let’s start from the beginning: We can define computer programming as the process of developing and implementing various sets of instructions to enable a computer to do a certain task. Programming is a language and is subject, like any other…

Eclipse: Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Integrated Development Environment (IDE): why you need one

Let’s talk about Integrated Development Environment and why you need one for your studies. I realized that many non engineering oriented studies teach some coding oriented classes and promote some programming activities among students. However, most of the activities tend to be very basic and the code required for delivering the foreseen assignment(s) is relatively…