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Continue reading →: Programming 102 Week 2 Tasks (Python)This blog post continues on from my previous Programming 102 tasks/challenges. 2.5 Strings As Lists Task: “On scoreboards, sports teams are sometimes referred to using a contraction of their name, often the first three letters. Can you write some code in order to create a new list, teams_short, containing three-letter…
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Continue reading →: Programming 102 Week 1 Challenges (Python)In originally planned to do one blog entry for all the Programming 102 course (see: https://geektechstuff.com/2019/01/21/programming-102-think-like-a-computer-scientist-python-raspberry-pi/) but due to the amount of coding tasks/challenges (which is great) I’ve going to do one for each week and possibly one for the end of week challenges. Week 1 Challenge 2: “Create a function…
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Continue reading →: Programming 102 “Think Like A Computer Scientist” (Python / Raspberry Pi)In my approach to keep learning I’ve signed up to Programming 102: Think Like A Computer Scientist” via FutureLearn and the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The course is available for free (or for a small fee to have a certificate) at: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/programming-102-think-like-a-computer-scientist/ I’m using this blog post to post my code…
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Continue reading →: Creating A Virtual Python Environment (Python)One of the issues I’ve hit when using Python is that sometimes a certain version of a Python module/library is needed and conflicts can arise. So if you are like me and fire up PIP to play with modules/libraries you probably have lots of them installed in the Global Python…
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Continue reading →: Network Boot Pi (Raspberry Pi)Continuing my current Raspberry Pi themed posts (making a BASH script executable, installing web server in a BASH script) today I will be looking at network booting a Raspberry Pi. For this exercise I’m using Debian Stretch with Raspberry Pi Desktop, available from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-desktop/ , running in a virtual machine.…
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Continue reading →: Installing Web Server and WordPress via a BASH script (Rasbperry Pi)Imagine this scenario; you have several Raspberry Pi computers and want to install the various packages (Apache, PHP, MySQL, WordPress) needed to make them web servers. This might be because you have a Code Club lesson where you want students to interact more with how web servers work, or if…
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Continue reading →: Making a BASH script executable (Raspberry Pi)
There were often times when I found myself typing the same commands into the terminal on my Raspberry Pi and I with my knowledge of scheduling Python (.py) files to run via CRON I decided to start running my regular terminal commands as scripts. A BASH executable script is basically…
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Continue reading →: Kali Linux – Reaver / WPS Cracking (Raspberry Pi)
Before proceeding I need to make this very clear: DO NOT USE THE BELOW INFORMATION TO ATTACK, MONITOR OR BREAK INTO ANY COMPUTER / NETWORK / DEVICE THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU. I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS. Sorry, I know that may seem very heavy handed but…
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Continue reading →: Opening Excel Spreadsheets (Python)
Microsoft Excel is great at spreadsheets but what if you want to use a different tool to analyse the data an Excel spreadsheet contains? In steps Python 3 and pandas, and as I’m currently looking at using pandas I’ve decided to make a few notes. No, not this type of…
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Continue reading →: PythonSkills.append(‘Developer’) – (Python)
For the last several weeks I’ve been undertaking various training certifications on LinkedIn Learning. Although I’ve used the LinkedIn Learning platform for different subject areas (the Microsoft SCCM course have helped for work purposes) my main drive has so far been the Python courses. Regular readers of my site have…
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