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odama38:
Nice platform... How does it work

You mean how does this bring food to everyone's home?


Another APC Buharist propaganda

makavele:
Nice but believe me, no matter how many vidz you watch, there are stuffs you won't be privy to and be surprised you never even knew they existed.
Nothing beats one one one training.
Besides most "free" videos are outdated.

For your one on one training. Give me a call if you are around Lagos or willing to pay for my flight

I can teach you Web Development (Django as backend and Bootstrap for frontend)
Data Mining (Web Scraping using Python's Scrapy)
Data analysis and a Bit of Machine Learning

What else?
Learn the basics of Git
A bit of Pentesting (SQL injection using Kali's Metasploit etc)
+23481.28221279

You might want to check this out...

BlackFriday web crawling program

https://github.com/Drjimoh/BlackfridayCrawler

One minute silence for NLC who couldn't put a smile on our face this morning...

shsss
may the good Lord save us from minimum wage.

In the early hours of this morning, -or in the morning hours early this morning - I decided out of sheer cynicism of Jumia Black Friday (being very unlucky in the past), to write a script that crawls jumia Pages and get names of items with at least 50% discount.
Well it worked and as it appears, I felt the urged to fork it on github for my fellow programmers to take advantage of the upcoming Black Friday deals, all you have to do is run the script using --scrapy crawl Aragog -- from the root directory.

You can change the threshold discount rate from the wicked.py file in the spider folder and you can even change the urls to crawl from the same folder.

It produces the result in the form of excel files, pretty basic but with a few refactoring you can do wonders with it.

Requirements:
Python 3 (best installed with Condamini or Anaconda)
Pandas (comes with condamini or Anaconda)
Scrapy (pip/conda install scrapy)
Virtualenv (if you will)

Link to the repo on GitHub

https://github.com/Drjimoh/BlackfridayCrawler


Let me know if you need anything. Have fun scraping jumia and pray jumia doesn't change their robot.txt file till after the Black Friday.

By the way, the spider was able to crawl 11 heavy jumia pages and return outputs in 26.93 seconds (for those that believe python is slow).

Tedsart:
To become a good HTML Programmer, what skills do I need & where do I learn them & how long do I learn?

Know how to operate a computer, how to create files and how files are referenced.

You can learn online or get a web developer to teach you.

You can learn it in 3-5 days but to be proficient in it, you have to practice very well.

CodeTemplar:
YouTube speed is largely due to optimized db and fast servers.

Well I was talking about the code implementation not leading to as a slow YouTube(as opposed to what a lot of programmers believe), giving credit to C/C++ integration in the python.

The overall speed is dependent on quite a lot of things, part of which CDN is a major factor.

srrrr:
I was discouraged from learning python because it's too easy to learn. To me it looks like a baby language that cares more about rapid development rather than efficiency. The most annoying part is the "Python can do everything" which makes people like me confused and scared of learning it.

I'm currently learning app development, but my question is If python was that good, why do most programmers (new programmers especially) still use java, kotlin, swift, objective c, c++, c# for app development and not python? Maybe it's not optimized for these areas. I know python can be used for mobile development, but maybe it's not for cases whereby speed and Efficiency are of great importance.

For web you hear Django, but what do programmers really use? Javascript. Python is easy but new web developers still run to node.js.

The AI and ML part makes sense because those areas are very difficult and you don't need to complicate things by using harder languages, though C++ is still used for cases I mentioned above.

I think something is wrong with the "Everything" syndrome that python lovers say every time.
These are my thoughts though.

Well I think the only thing most programmers have against python is it's readability(put it in simple terms, python uses English words with few symbols and no semicolon on every statement to make life easy)

Every other thing is a mere assumption bro
Yes python looks like a scripting language so you'd expect it to be slow, but YOUTUBE is serving over 40 million videos per hour (thanks to python). With well optimized codes and employing implementation of C/C++ in your python codes(which I don't think most programmers are patient enough to find out), speed and efficiency won't be a problem.

About Desktop App development python is still a goto language, and you're talking about Androud or IOS apps, then check out Kivy which can build cross platform GUI apps.

The Notion of Everything is as real as they say. Python can do everything, it's just the community of python developers that decide what to adopt from it.

You should also know that a major part of Instagram uses python. Even google APp engine.

...and the reason why most people don't like an "easy" programming language is a bit personal if you ask me, python doesn't make you feel like a hard guy enough

nke001:
Good to hear that!
Kudos!!

I will be happy to see Delta hub becomes the incubation hub for technology in Nigeria and also DT. becoming the the second smart state in this country. It is attainable.

Cyber system
Embedded system technology,
Automation and Robotics are the future of technology.

Also I am engaged far off my beloved DT . I will definitely visit soonest.


More grease to your elbow!

Sooonest !!!

<thanks/>

CodeTemplar:
Most languages are tailored to have strengths in certain area. Python and Java aren't mates OP. Java and ASP are close but there are other powerful langs like C# and C++ that can cover a good number what java or ASP can. Python is best for AI and ML as it has good amount of learning resource and AI-centric libraries.

Another Java guy

Well I never said Java is less powerful, I was just comparing the flexibility of python, it's easy to use and "still powerful". If you ask me, I think life is better without Public Private void static etc, java of course is great for code implementation.

Well if you say Python is best for AI, you've probably not whipped up 'spiders' to crawl websites using python.

All the same, Java is very powerful and python is easy to learn/use and still powerful.

Oftentimes I find myself in a heated argument with a fellow programmer who is not a parselmouth over why python is better than java, C & sons and whatnot. I'll admit I can't do much to convince the non python folks, let me just focus on enticing the newbies with the benefits of learning python.

1. In the beginning Everything was hard and the Monty brothers said let there be python:

Python is probably the most simple programming language out there, simple yet powerful (I will be talking about this soon) and to say the most, python is readable. You can save the colons, semi colons, curly braces , var, lorem ipsum gipsun and just focus on the task ahead.
Unless you're from the 'engineering' world, you'll agree with me that life is much better without further mathematics.

2. Flexibility :
People always hit me with this line? What can your python do? The goodnews is my python can do pretty much anything you want to do. Python might not be the language of the web as much as Js is but if you've ever had your hands on Django (python framework for web development) you will be more than convinced at what class Blog(model.Model) can do.
Ever heard of Big Data? You don't have to be a data scientist like me to before you can write python codes for data analysis, machine learning, web scraping and whatnot.
You can even create GUI applications using TKinter

3. Python is portable and extensible:
Yeah you heard me, tell your zoology lecturer I said python is portable, it's lightweight and you can extend it to integrate your java or C ++ codes.

4. Easy to learn:
Perhaps this should be the most emphasized point, python is easy to learn. Often times, when I tell people I'll teach them python in 12 weeks and they ask if they'll grasp it I'm tempted to add that if you can't understand python in 12 weeks you will be insulting your brain that you're very much okay without one (to put it nicely).
You can learn python in a day, yes you read it correctly, you can learn python in a day and go ahead to write error codes that will point at what is wrong with your codes and with few weeks of practice you'll be able to write codes that work.

Here is the good news you can learn online (just as you can learn even medicine online nowadays). There are thousands of repositories of codes already and millions of answers to similar issues you'll run into on stackoverflow, if you're determined enough you can learn python online and at no cost.

However if you have money to spare and you need one on one tutorials and you feel you can come to Asaba you can hit me up on 0.8.1.2.8.2.2.1.2.7.9.

nke001:
Each time I pass through that okpannam road, I just see a sleeping tech giant in that delta hub.

The govt should do more to encourage the youth and tech enthusiasts to utilize this facility.

The last hackaton was not a bad idea.

You guys should do more!

Solar system should be installed to provide 24/7 power supply and free broadband internet access, as these are the basis of technological advancement.

Kudos on this

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Update:
There're solar panels providing uninterrupted power supply now and provisions are made for internet connectivity whenever it's needed.

...come and confirm it this coming Saturday

Tech Enthusiasts, <make some noise ... />,
Are you in Asaba? Warri? PH? Onitsha? Benin? you don't want to miss the tech meetup this Saturday, coming to you live at the State Innovation hub in Asaba.

RSVP <make more noise... />

Developers should come along with their Laptops, we'll be building something chulloo..

11am -2pm (Developer time)

...see you there

Plants have been employed in performing "wonders" in the past, wonders such as resuscitation, healing wounds, preventing pregnancy (birth control), curing barrenness and most importantly preventing most of the illnesses that plague us nowadays, examples are stroke, hypertension, fibroid, cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, just to mention a few.
Today, most of these plants have been left to grow fallow, some has even gone into extinction, with little-to-nothing being known about the ones we keep around us, we live in a world of "arrogant-disregard" for plants that produce and house the cure to most of our problems, little wonder why life-expectancy has dropped significantly over the decades.

With the help of modern-day science, experiments have been carried out to ascertain the "surviving-medicinal-claims" of some plants, in this blog post we will introduce one of the "wonder plants", a household plant that can be found almost everywhere.

Name: Jatropha carcus

Common names: Botuje, Lapalapa, physic nut.

Pharmacological activity; Anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-fungal, antiviral, anticancer, antihypertensive, anticoagulant and coagulant, antihelminthic.


Indications:

Infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus from minor skin infections, such as pimples, impetigo, boils, cellulitis, folliculitis, carbuncles, scalded skin syndrome, and abscesses, to life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis, osteomyelitis, endocarditis, toxic shock syndrome, bacteremia, and sepsis and Infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli.


HIV

Diarrhoeal

Toothache

Helminthic infection (worms)

Fibroid

Cancer

While I don't know how you can do that, I believe you can request for a MasterCard , have it delivered to someone in the UK/USA and shipped down to Nigeria so you can spend your money at the pos.

In the true spirit of do-not-argue knowledge sharing, let me quickly highlight the merits of python over your-average-language, (please do not argue, I know there are a lot of kids out there who believe what which where and whatnot language can do which who whom and whatnot over python �,Okay this is just to divert your attention but like I said earlier let's not argue. Straight up:

1. You get to write less codes, you spend less human time( computers don't have other things to tend to) and you get more money who doesn't want to get 1.5 million naira a month kind-of-salary

2. You have to fake it till you make it, who doesn't want to use what Google is using? or Instagraaaam or Dropbox. Drop it drop it like its hot

3. Ever heard of Big Data? Data science? well if you're like me you might have been delving into some machine learning programming stuff stuff stuffs like that by-2am-kind-of-one thing. With python of course! I am a living example; never felt more alive in my entire life

4. If you're not convinced yet, you definitely have something against snakes.


So how do you become a python programmer, you can learn it online or if you're in Lagos/Ogun axis you can call my number (my phone Number ), I'm willing to run a couple of python master classes before the year runs out. 8 weeks intensive one on one python masterclass and you're good to code. Or 22 weeks intensive one on one python masterclass and you're a fully fledged � python sorry Python programmer ampersand Expert of Data Science. So just call my number I'm exhausted from all these typing... call my number if you need somebody oooo call my name if you need someborry






....the goal is to become a python programmer, hasta luego mi amigos, creo que me gustaria una taza du cafe con leche


Call my phone number ( zero eight one two eight two two one two seven nine)

TAINK you.

******Edited

Please due to high demands I'm no longer in Lagos and my coverage now is strictly Delta state and some part of Anambra.

** High demands in the above statement means clarion call .

If you want to learn python, either from the scratch or you already have some basic knowledge of it. You can mail me at info@itsmart.com.ng or give me a call on 08128221279. I offer quality masterclass (one on one tutorial) to anyone around lagos at an affordable price. I stay at university road in yaba so put my location into consideration before giving me a call.

I am also a web developer (vast in client side and server side scripting), should in case you want to learn black hat hacking I have some tricks I can teach you from sql injection to bruteforcing and phishing.

Don't hesitate to contact me, I won't mind learning one or two things from you. Thanks.

***edited, Local man is back