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Programming › Re: The Myth Of Saturation With Regards To Web Development. by monikulapo: 5:00pm On Oct 27, 2021

I would let you know right from the jump that your assumptions might not be right. Tech is actually pretty inclusive moreso in Nigeria. And there’s no ‘boys club’, ‘undue advantage’ whatever that implies ... I don’t think that’s a problem in the tech space.

Actually are you in Tech, you would not be able to relate if you aren’t actually.

Programming › Re: The Myth Of Saturation With Regards To Web Development. by monikulapo: 4:43pm On Oct 27, 2021

And if your gripe is that I’m agreeing with the other guy. I agree with the the gist but I mentioned it’s not as cynical as he’s made it out to be. Honestly as a female, it’s just a call that if you put the effort in you’ll find it easier in tech than in most other industries in Nigeria.

Programming › Re: The Myth Of Saturation With Regards To Web Development. by monikulapo: 4:35pm On Oct 27, 2021

BRATISLAVA:
It appears inclusion is misconstrued as favoring women in tech. Women are qualified for those roles.

The guy who said he was interning and the two CS grads took over more prominent roles, would you have the same objections if it were males with connections under the same circumstances?

How do you know if recruitment would've screened men differently? Are you part of the recruitment team and have some unique insights for us?

I asked how recruitment waters down things for women and got no response. I was hoping we could all learn something new. Rather than a response, there are more posts claiming things that sound more like personal opinions than fact. Have any of you interviewed women in tech to know what their competencies and recruitment scrutiny was like in relation to their roles?

It defies logic for a company to hire two unproductive staff who do fairly important work, because they are females.

Anyway, the testosterone in here is stifling.

If you missed it the point I made and agreed to is that if you had equally qualified people, the female has more chances of being chosen. And for developer relation type roles females are generally chosen.
Plus nowhere did I imply unqualified or unproductive. I didn’t even say more prominent when talking about the job positions. Nowhere did I imply a negative connotation. Honestly, if I was in the same position I would employ a female.
Also I don’t need to be in recruitment, what’s your logic ? these are people I worked with, first hand experience not opinions, facts. Also did you miss where I talked about representation and images and all ..
Honestly chillax this isn’t a heated conversation, I guess it’s just my observations ...

Programming › Re: The Myth Of Saturation With Regards To Web Development. by monikulapo: 4:22pm On Oct 27, 2021*

Bro this and your surgeon analogy doesn’t make sense one bit at all, I don’t see the relation. Computer Science is an image space, there’s a push for more female developers in Nigeria, look at accelerators, incubators, grants, foundations. It’s just logical that there would be more female focused roles. Perhaps not as cynical as Tensa put it, but honestly if you can’t see it then it’s all good, I’m just saying I have experience with this and female ‘developers’ don’t find it hard getting a ‘tech’ job in Nigeria. Do you have experience to say otherwise ?

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Programming › Re: Python Programmers Lets Meet Here!!! by monikulapo: 4:19pm On Oct 27, 2021

Anyone here who lives around the Alagbole - Ojodu - Ikeja axis and wants to meet up periodically to work on projects. HMU if you can make sense of the solutions on my other thread.

Programming › Re: The Myth Of Saturation With Regards To Web Development. by monikulapo: 4:13pm On Oct 27, 2021

Instead of being trying to be politically correct, look at it this way there’s more emphasis on women in tech in Nigeria, there’s going to be a bottleneck if they don’t get employed so obviously there’s preference for female developers. Simple as. Plus I actually have experience with this in 4 different occasions and settings.

Programming › Re: The Myth Of Saturation With Regards To Web Development. by monikulapo: 4:09pm On Oct 27, 2021*

airsaylongcome:
No! They do not have it easier!! It's the same baseline whether male or female.

Plus I’ve interned in the industry in Nigeria, and I worked with two females who had more developer relations related roles who just had CS degrees and connection, I know for a fact a male applicant would’ve been more scrutinized. Again I don’t think it’s bad. It’s actually good for representation.
But I don’t think Tensas statement is as scandalous as it’s being made out to be. Simples.

Programming › Re: The Myth Of Saturation With Regards To Web Development. by monikulapo: 4:05pm On Oct 27, 2021

Instead of nitpicking at semantics, the gist is generally true. If push comes to shove, there’s preference for female developers. Not that it is bad. Heck, of recent even tech incubators have female only batches and the latest TEF program had more position for female entrepreneurs.

Programming › Re: Help needed for Backend Developer / Product Manager Roadmap by monikulapo(op): 9:25pm On Oct 24, 2021

Hello peeps. Help. plez. Thanks.

Programming › Re: Python Programmers Share Your Learning Process by monikulapo: 9:17pm On Oct 24, 2021

Perhaps study it in a gamified setting, study with intentions to start a personal project or get a study partner ?
What’s delaying your progress ?

Programming › Re: Help needed for Backend Developer / Product Manager Roadmap by monikulapo(op): 4:28pm On Oct 22, 2021

Sorry if this sounds naive, but how do I implement this into my current workflow ??

My current workflow is learning Python and programming skills in general by solving Algo & DS styled questions. While doing this, I am focusing on refactoring my code, learning runtimes and common algorithms. I plan on doing this until I am comfortable with classes and OOP.

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Programming › Help needed for Backend Developer / Product Manager Roadmap by monikulapo(op): 4:16pm On Oct 22, 2021

Senior Backend Developers / Software Engineers in the house, what do I need to focus on as a beginner and what are some suggested roadmaps to follow if I eventually want to transition into a technical product manager role.

Programming › Re: My Python Programming Diary by monikulapo(op): 4:06pm On Oct 22, 2021*

The maximum sum subarray problem consists in finding the maximum sum of a contiguous subsequence in an array or list of integers:
max_sequence([-2, 1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1, -5, 4]) should return 6 '[4, -1, 2, 1]'. https://www.codewars.com/kata/54521e9ec8e60bc4de000d6c/train/python

My initial Solution:

def max_sequence(arr):
    totalmax = 0
    currentmax = 0
    
    for i in arr:
        currentmax += i
        
        if totalmax < currentmax:
            totalmax = currentmax
        if currentmax < 0:
            currentmax = 0
            
    return totalmax

Areas for improvement:
Modify script to also return the corresponding array

Programming › Re: I Need Clarification On ICT Carriers. by monikulapo: 12:54am On Oct 18, 2021

tensazangetsu20:
I didn't have any background. I was a mechanic before I became a programmer and my first salary was 100k. I studied my ass like crazy. Programming morning till night everyday till I was ready for my first job.

Not trying to down play your progress but I still think it’s a bit of an oversimplification especially in Nigerian context to say you were a mechanic first. You had a solid University engineering education, you were a computer literate and you were also an entrepreneur. That’s different from a 30 year old conditioned private school teacher who’s not too comfortable with basic MS Word.

Programming › Re: My Python Programming Diary by monikulapo(op): 10:09pm On Oct 15, 2021*

Given an array of integers. Return an array, where the first element is the count of positives numbers and the second element is sum of negative numbers.
If the input array is empty or null, return an empty array. For input [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, -11, -12, -13, -14, -15], you should return [10, -65].

My initial Solution:

def count_positives_sum_negatives(arr):
    if len(arr) == 0:
        return arr
    
    sum = 0
    count = 0
    for i in arr:
        if i > 0:
            count += 1
        if i < 0:
            sum += i

    return [count, sum]

Played around with sets, and return statement/expression:

def count_positives_sum_negatives(arr):
    total = sum(i for i in arr if i < 0)
    count = sum(1 for i in arr if i > 0)
    return [count, total] if len(arr) else []

Areas for improvement:
Find the fastest solution

Programming › Re: Send All Django-python Bug Or Problems Here.(django Mentorship Class) by monikulapo: 7:56pm On Oct 14, 2021

Hello all,
How long would you advise to spend on learning Python basics before diving into Django ?

Programming › Re: My Python Programming Diary by monikulapo(op): 7:16pm On Oct 14, 2021*

https://www.codewars.com/kata/576757b1df89ecf5bd00073b
Build Tower by the following given argument: number of floors (integer and always greater than 0). Tower block is represented as *,
Return a list. For example, a tower of 3 floors looks like the result below

[
  '  *  ', 
  ' *** ', 
  '*****'
] 
and a tower of 6 floors looks like the result below
[
  '     *     ', 
  '    ***    ', 
  '   *****   ', 
  '  *******  ', 
  ' ********* ', 
  '***********'
]

My initial solution:

def tower_builder(n_floors):
    tower = []
    space = (n_floors * 2) - 1
    for i in range(n_floors):
        sign = '*' * ((i * 2) + 1)
        floor = sign.center(space)
        tower.append(floor)
    return tower

Played around with list comprehension:

def tower_builder(n_floors):
    space = (n_floors * 2) - 1
    return [('x' * ((i * 2) + 1)).center(space) for i in range(n_floors)]

Areas for improvement:
Test both scripts to see if list comprehension is faster

Programming › Re: My Python Programming Diary by monikulapo(op): 2:40am On Oct 14, 2021*

Gentleman001:
Use for I in range of a.. that should solve the issue

You cannot find the range of a list.
The problem has been solved, and I also provided an explanation for the error.
Next time, to prevent derailing this thread please ensure you test your solutions before suggesting them.

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Programming › Re: My Python Programming Diary by monikulapo(op): 2:21am On Oct 14, 2021

Implement a function that accepts 3 integer values a, b, c. The function should return true if a triangle can be built with the sides of given length and false in any other case.
(In this case, all triangles must have surface greater than 0 to be accepted)https://www.codewars.com/kata/56606694ec01347ce800001b/python
Here's my solution:

def is_triangle(a, b, c):
    if (a + b > c) and (a + c > b) and (b + c > a):
        return True
    else:
        return False

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Health › Re: Suffering From Attention Deficit. by monikulapo: 2:24pm On Oct 12, 2021

shiggy:
Pls where did you get for this price? Got from a drug store for 14k

Alpha Phamarcy

Programming › Re: My Python Programming Diary by monikulapo(op): 1:53pm On Oct 12, 2021*

In a small town the population is p0 = 1000 at the beginning of a year. The population regularly increases by 2 percent per year and moreover 50 new inhabitants per year come to live in the town. How many years does the town need to see its population greater or equal to p = 1200 inhabitants? https://www.codewars.com/kata/563b662a59afc2b5120000c6/train/python

Here's my solution:

def nb_year(p0, percent, aug, p):
    totalp = 0
    year = 0
    percent = percent / 100
    while totalp < p:
        totalp = p0 + (p0 * percent) + aug
        totalp = int(totalp)
        p0 = totalp
        year += 1
    return year

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Programming › Re: My Python Programming Diary by monikulapo(op): 12:48pm On Oct 12, 2021*

For anyone following, this was what I was solving when I encountered the problem above:
Given: an array containing hashes of names.
Return: a string formatted as a list of names separated by commas except for the last two names, which should be separated by an ampersand. https://www.codewars.com/kata/53368a47e38700bd8300030d/train/python
For example:

namelist([ {'name': 'Bart'}, {'name': 'Lisa'}, {'name': 'Maggie'} ])
# returns 'Bart, Lisa & Maggie'

namelist([ {'name': 'Bart'}, {'name': 'Lisa'} ])
# returns 'Bart & Lisa'

namelist([ {'name': 'Bart'} ])
# returns 'Bart'

namelist([])
# returns ''

This is my solution,

def namelist(names):
    lnames = [name['name'] for name in names] #Unpack name values from dictionary into a list
    flist = lnames[:-2] #flist of names exluding last two elements
    elist = lnames[-2:] #elist containing last two elements
    eString = ' & '.join(elist) #string of last two elements joined with '&'

    if len(lnames) <= 1:
        return ''.join(lnames) #returns single element as string
    else:
        nflist = [name + ',' for name in flist] #create nflist containing comma modified elements from flist
        nflist.append(eString) #added last string as an element to nflist
        return ' '.join(nflist) #returns list elements as strings

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Programming › Re: My Python Programming Diary by monikulapo(op): 2:29pm On Oct 09, 2021*

Hello house, I expect the code snippet above to return:
Wayne, John, Samson, Mike, Seun,
However, what I get is:
Wayne, John, Samson,
Please, what is going on under the hood ?

a = ['Seun','Mike','Samson','John','Wayne']
j = ''
for i in a:
    j = j + a.pop()
    j += ', '
print(j)

I was wondering why the a.pop() method isn't working as expected.

Modified:
Okay, so I just learnt that modifying a list while iterating through it could lead to errors like this. It is best to create a new list and add items to it rather than removing items from the existing list.

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Programming › My Python Programming Diary by monikulapo(op): 1:53pm On Oct 09, 2021*

Hello All,

I am currently working through Codewars in order to improve my Python Proficiency before diving into Django.
I provide the problem links, along with my solution for anyone who's interested.
Any suggestions on alternate solutions, logic and best practices would be really appreciated.

Health › Re: I'm Not Passing Urine: Somebody Should Help Me. by monikulapo: 12:01am On Oct 08, 2021

dierich:
Thanks so much sir
I'll do as u said.
I just hope I'll be fine and won't have a kidney problem coz I'm scared and that alone is making me sick.
Thanks once again sir

Keep track of your symptoms, your diagnosis is only as good as what you say (symptom), the result of the test and quality of the doctor you see. You can control two variables, so work on those.

Also don't put diagnosis in the doctors mouth, don't mention 'Kidney' at all ... state your symptoms as broadly and detailed as you can. Let the doctor make a diagnosis based on that and the test result then get an extra eye to also independently interpret the results. You should keep results of all your previous tests, so you can compare results.

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Health › Re: I'm Not Passing Urine: Somebody Should Help Me. by monikulapo: 11:42pm On Oct 07, 2021

Go to the best hospital you can afford. Get a Kidney Test, Liver Test and Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test.
You should get a full blood test if you can afford it.
Essentially you are trying to confirm if it's a prostate or kidney problem. Based on your post history of trouble peeing and getting erection I think it might be enlarged prostate.

To help your Doctor diagnose you better, keep a detailed note of your observations and symptoms. The quality of the doctors diagnosis is related to how best you can explain your symptoms.

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Health › Re: Body Is Swelling Up Without Cure by monikulapo: 11:12pm On Oct 07, 2021

Curious345:
what does this detect?

Kidney Function, essentially how well the Kidneys are working

Health › Re: Suffering From Attention Deficit. by monikulapo: 11:09pm On Oct 07, 2021

Guest911:
Try not to overdose, read up on the side effects.

It’ll definitely make you hyper-focus over an insanely long period. I also take it with fearless energy drink

My personal experience
1 tablet per day is enough, anything more triggers anxiety.
There’s a slight increase in blood flow/heart beat. ( more reason not to overdose)

Rubifen is slightly better because it starts working a lot quicker compared to Ritalin.

Both drugs gave me insomnia, sometimes I sleep around 4:00am. so take it in the morning around 6-7am so the effects can reduce before bedtime.

Hello, besides insomnia what's the crash and come down on Ritalin like ?

Health › Re: Suffering From Attention Deficit. by monikulapo: 11:06pm On Oct 07, 2021

It would keep you up and make your workload more manageable with occasional tunnel vision focus, but not comparable to Ritalin or other stronger stimulants. Haven't experienced any significant side effect other than forgetting you need sleep though cheesy

Health › Re: Suffering From Attention Deficit. by monikulapo: 8:15pm On Oct 07, 2021

Dollywood:
Besides, how much did you bought your modafinil?

30 Tabs of 100mg should be ~ N5000.

Health › Re: Suffering From Attention Deficit. by monikulapo: 8:14pm On Oct 07, 2021

tatatar:
Chai 10,500 for 15 tabs.
I bought a drug called modafinil which can also be used for adhd,but after the first day I couldn't feel the effect anymore.
Please can I see a snapshot of your prescription.

what brand of Modafinil is it ? I bought the 100mg Milpharm and have the same experience.

Business › Re: ➜ ➜ ➜Currency/E-currency Market Deals 2020 ➜ ➜ ➜ by monikulapo: 9:16pm On Oct 03, 2021

$25 paypal urgently needed.

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