It’s a Sequence, a Sequence of Characters Can access the characters using the braket operator >>> fruit = 'banana' >>> letter = fruit[1] >>> print(letter) a You get that fruit[1] is a, the second letter in the string. Remeber counting starts from 0 in Python. the number inside the bracket is called the index. Indeces can be negative. But index $\in [-length+1, length -1]$. len is the built-in function which gives the length of a string....
The while loop It allows you to repeat a set of actions until a statement is true. Eg: n = 5 while n > 0: print(n) n = n - 1 print('Blastoff!') This is executed as follows Creates and sets n to 5. Goes to the while statement and checks if n is greater than 0. Right now it’s true, so we move inside the loop. Prints n, ie outputs 5....
What is a Function A function takes a set of inputs and produces an output. Eg: >>>type(32) <class 'init'> Here type is a function that takes 32 as an input and produces its class. Some Built-in functions max : gives the “largest character” in the string >>>max('Hello world') 'w' min : gives the “smallest character” in the string >>>min('Hello world') ' ' len : gives the number of characters in the string...
This post describes the creation process of this website. I have used the popular static site generator Hugo. Hugo is based on the language go. Disclaimer: this is the second time I am creating my website using Hugo. But the last time I created this was in 2015, so a lot has changed. Installing Hugo on Windows 10 My recommendation is to use Chocolatey to install Hugo although there are binaries available at github for direct installation....
My Failed Attempt at Setting Up This Website Using Franklin (On Windows) I will be using Franklin based on Julia because I wanted to learn Julia I wanted to use markdown (or somethng similar) with LaTeX support automatically I wanted to see if the promises of KaTeX rendering hold water Code highlighting was another bonus Installing Julia on Windows 10 To do this I first installed Julia using Chocolatey with the command...