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Built an API endpoint that provides a list of Nigerian Universities (federal, state and private)

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hehehehe.... no snakes but there are a bunch of codes.

Below is a Python script to send jpg files via gmail.

import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEBase
from email import encoders
import os
"""
extensions of files that we will send
"""
extension = "jpg"
"""
This function returns a tuple with the files located in the
current
directory
"""

files = os.listdir() #this program should be saved in the current directory where your files are.

"""
We check what files have our wished extension
"""

for file in files:
if extension in file:
user ="sending@gmail.com"
recv ="receiving@gmail.com"
subject = "Subject"
message = MIMEMultipart()
message["From"] = user
message["To"] = recv
message["Subject"]= subject
body = "Files with ." + extension + "extension"
message.attach(MIMEText(body,"plain")
attachment = open(file,"rb"
part = MIMEBase("application","octet-stream"
part.set_payload((attachment).read())
encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header("Content-Disposition","attachment;
filename= " + file)
message.attach(part)
text = message.as_string()
server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",587)
server.starttls()
server.login(user,"your gmail pasword"
server.sendmail(user,recv,text)
server.quit()
else:
pass


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You may get an error at first due to Google trying to protect your Gmail account from unknown app trying to login in.

Just check your email and follow the steps provided by Gmail.

Then run the code again.

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Today 6 experts will show you the best way to learn Python

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Today on LinkedIn, Aditya thakekar asked an important question which was;

Can you kindly guide me how to land a remote Python Job?

It case you don't know what it means to work remotely, it means working somewhere other than in an office.

Here was Cătălin Matei's to the question answer:

Finding a remote job is only part of the battle. You then need to get it, which is hard. You need to convince some strangers that you can deliver what they ask for.

They'll ask you some questions and maybe give you some tests, but the time spent there is lost, you can't reuse that time for the next opportunity.

So while you're searching for the remote job, work on the getting-the-job part too. Find (or start) an open source project related to your interests and contribute to it regularly.

This is what you're going to do for the remote job you're looking for, so it's a good way to show your potential employer that you know how to do it.

And the work done on that project is not lost, you can reuse it for many job applications. And hopefully that work improves that open source project, another good way to make a better world while you're improving your skills too.

Doing a good work on that project could make the remote job you're looking for to come to you;

He continues by saying:

people could approach you instead of you looking for them. That's how Michael Galarnyk gets his job in data science.

Knowing inside out an open source project gives you another revenue opportunity, you can implement / adapt it for some company or charge for support.

I wanted to share the thought I had when I read your post. But to answer your question first thing you can do is to use your favorite search engine to find "remote programming work" sites and use them: make a solid profile, browse the posts, apply to them.

Another way is to find programming communities (forums, slack, discord, reddit, facebook etc) and make yourself useful, build a reputation improving yourself and building a network at the same time.

TL;DR Remote jobs are not laying around somewhere waiting for us to find them, we need to get good at what we do and show it to the world; then the jobs will come to us or at least they'll be easier to get when we find them.

For more reading: Patrick Triest, a full stack engineer in this interview shares tips to succeed as a digital nomad(i.e how to work remotely effectively)

Please, I need more answers.

How can one get remote jobs as a Python programmer?

I just came across something awesome.

A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

In this list, you will find

Libraries to manipulate audio

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets

Libraries for fighting spam( for Django developers)

Libraries for caching data.

Libraries for chatbot development.

Libraries for migrating from Python 2 to 3.

Libraries for computer vision.

Libraries for data analyzing.

And much more.

You can see this curated list here.

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Double underscores are very popular in Python.

Some special Class methods such as init and str start and end with double underscores.

You can make a class attribute private by adding double underscores as a prefix after self.

Funny enough, double underscores have a weird name known as dunder

Now you know what double underscores are called in the Python community.

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you are welcome.

Check out this Machine Learning project that recognizes the color of objects.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWWwcGvJ_u0

I came across this awesome Python book for engineering students.

The name of the book is:

Programming for Computations – Python (A Gentle Introduction to Numerical Simulations with Python)

Authors - Svein Linge and Hans Petter Langtangen

This 244-page book is not only about numerical methods, it emphasizes on programming and verification.

The book enables engineering students to use their knowledge of Python to solve problems correctly.

Each of the six chapters in the book has exercises for students to solve more problems.

Major topics treated in the book include:

- Ordinary Differential Equations

- Partial Differential Equations

- Nonlinear Algebraic Equations

Other topics treated include:

- Newton's method

- Secant method

- Bisection method

- Brute Force methods

- Runge-Kutta methods and much more

Download book here.

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What other Python book for engineering students do you recommend?

Mine is King Arthur and spider man

They are great guys.

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How to learn Python effectively- The best way.

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Deadline for submissions is 23rd of November – hope you are able to participate.

Kindly include a brief description of yourself.

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Dramatically improve your skills with this simplified but more thorough guide on object-oriented programming in Python.

A PDF version is available in the tutorial including code snippets.

There is also cheat sheet to aid your learning.

You can read this awesome tutorial via the link below.

https://coolpythoncodes.com/object-oriented-programming-python/

To be honest with you,

There are not many Python blogs by Nigerians.

But here are the few I have come across.

#1 Geospatial Solutions Expert- A Geomatics Information Technology and Python Programming Blog by Umar Yusuf.

On this blog, you will find projects on Geomatics Information Technology (GIT) aka GIS and Python Programming Language, with more emphasis on QGIS, ArcGIS, PostGIS, wxPython, PyQt, PySide, SQLite, WxFormBuilder, QtBuilder, Web Mapping e.t.c

Umar Yusuf is a Geospatial Solutions Specialist with over seven years experience in the industry.

#2 Cool Python Codes - A Python programming blog by Godson Rapture Chijioke.

If you ever wondered:

“Where can I get the best Python tutorial with examples, free source codes to download, Python interviews with experts etc?”, Cool Python Codes is the best Python blog in Nigeria for you.

This Nigerian blog is where Godson shares his experience that he has gained over his past years of learning Python programming.

He also shares interviews he had with other experts in Python programming and inspiring stories of programmers that have changed our world.
​
#3 Osaetin Daniel blog - A blog by Osaetin Daniel

This is just a blog where Daniel keeps records of all the amazing stuff he found as he journeyed through the ever exciting world of programming.

Osaetin Daniel happens to be a web and Odoo developer at Vascon solutions Abuja, Nigeria.He loves working with Python, HTML, CSS, js, PHP, Django, Linux, odoo , PySide.

He developed a polling service known as VOTR, which is an open source project.
​
If you know of any Python blog by a Nigerian, please drop it in the comment section.

Do you know OpenCV, Machine Learning and Image Processing and you find it difficult to come up with cool amazing projects?

Today’s guest, Dibakar Saha(a.k.a EvilPort) talks about his image processing and machine learning projects.

Basically, he is a beginner in Python with experience in Image Processing and a little bit in machine learning.

He has designed a very simple classification programs like spam detection and sentiment analysis using machine learning in Python.

Using image processing he has also designed a very simple gesture recognition system. He has also designed a gesture-driven keyboard. And presently he is working on an app that he calls NFS Most Wanted 2013 Remote, that can control the cars in the game using your phone’s accelerometer.

In this interview, EvilPort was able to share his programming experience, he gave an insight of how he overcame the difficulty of coming up with amazing projects, and less I forget;

He also revealed some tips that will help a lot of programmers out there, especially the newbies.

below is the link to the post.

https://coolpythoncodes.com/image-processing-projects-using-python/

Here are demo videos of his projects.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv-3u5VXOQ4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idDlAN4Fvnw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_cCCBfsAFE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUEILQhkzAY

Here are photos of projects done by Michael Tesař.

To learn more go to the link below.

http://coolpythoncodes.com/interview-michael-tesar/

Knowing Artificial intelligence, Machine learning and data science is great.

But coming up with useful projects can be a bit tough.

Today’s guest, Michael Tesař, has done a lot of projects and he shares some of them with me.

my favourite is the colour recognizer program he wrote.

This program identifies the colour of objects placed near the webcam.

Here's a description of the project:

This is my neuronal network playground.

I began to learn some machine learning libraries for Python and I wanted to do some meaningful project. I mean, we all start with Iris flower and Mnist dataset. I desired to do as much as I could do by myself to understand what is under the hood in those example codes.

ColorRecognizer has only one goal, to identify the colour presented to a web camera. I use Python 3.6, OpenCV2 and Scikit-learn library under the macOS 10.13.

Idea is to connect web camera to GUI with OpenCV2 which is essentially pretty simple and straightforward. Then I calculate an average value for R, G, and B for my screen (height x width). One hook is that OpenCV2 uses BGR format, so you have to keep that in mind.

Each time you run the program, a new session is started with training dataset and trained model loaded into the system.

If you run it for the first time it will automatically build it for you.

Maybe you’re asking, how does the computer know which colour is which?

This is up to the user to teach it (since it is machine learning).

You have to annotate some frames with the colour. The user can do it by pressing keyboard (k for black, w for white, r for red etc.).

I have run about 1500 training sets and each time you close the app you also save your classification model and your annotation. It means it is basically smarter with every new session (in case you show something new to the computer).

Even though I use a very elementary algorithm called Decision Tree Model, you can see on demo video that is quite accurate when the screen is filled with some colour.

Here is a demo of the project below:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWWwcGvJ_u0

Currently, I am working on a new deep learning version to learn a bit from image processing with TensorFlow. This time I won’t compute the mean of R, G, and B value – eventually, the computer would learn by itself (i.e. we will only care about the main colour on screen).

It has its own limits in adding new colours. Every time you have to teach it manually. I mean, you have to tell it that we have a new colour, its name and show some samples. Since I use usual web camera, I cannot recognize smaller nuances in colours due to lighting, brightness and saturation setup. It still has some problem to recognize red from orange in bad lighting.

So if you want to find out how Michael Tesař overcame the challenge of coming up with smart projects I suggest you read more here.

http://coolpythoncodes.com/interview-michael-tesar/

When it comes to Python books for people with little or no programming experience I recommend:

Python_tutorial from Tutorials point. It is where you can learn Python from scratch. Their PDF book is free to download and I provided the link to download it in this post.
The book is based on Python version 2.X and there are no much projects to practice. It just teaches the basics of Python and if you are devoted you will learn Python version 2.X syntax quickly.

Fundamentals of Python: First Programs is another great book but it is still based on Python version 2.X. I prefer this book to Python_tutorial because it has projects you can practice. I recommend you read the two books side by side.

Starting Out with Python- Second Edition is for Python version 3.X. I recommend you start learning the latest version of Python version which is Python 3.6. This book is really great and I recommend you get it.

Here is a bonus book,
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is a book by Al Sweigart. In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you’ll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand. It is a great book.


For more recommendation go to

http://coolpythoncodes.com/best-python-books/