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Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python
Classes, objects, inheritance and the dunder methods that make Python objects feel built in — plus dataclasses and when a function is…
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PHP PDO Explained With Examples
PDO is the standard way to talk to a database from PHP. Connecting, prepared statements that stop SQL injection, fetching rows, transactions…
PHP
Introduction to PHP
What PHP is, how it differs from JavaScript, how a request becomes a page, and your first working script — with the…
PHP
PHP 7 vs PHP 8: What Changed and Whether to Upgrade
PHP 7 has been end-of-life since 2022. What PHP 8 changed in the language, what breaks when you move, why the upgrade…
Python
How to Fix ModuleNotFoundError: No Module Named ‘IPython’
IPython is missing from the interpreter you are running. Here is the fix, including the capitalisation trap and the Jupyter kernel mismatch…
Java
Java Not Working in VS Code
No IntelliSense, "cannot find symbol" on everything, or the run button does nothing? VS Code needs a JDK it can find and…
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Generics in Programming
What generics are, the problem they solve, and how they look in Java, C#, TypeScript and Python — with constraints, wildcards and…
Python
Python is vs ==: When to Use Which
== asks whether two values are equal; is asks whether they are the same object. Use is only for None, True, False…
Programming Basics
Concurrency and Multithreading
The difference between concurrency and parallelism, when threads help and when they do not, and the two bugs — race conditions and…
Python
Fixing “TypeError: object is not callable” in Python (Including list is not callable)
You put call brackets after something that is not a function. The type in the message names it. The usual cause is…
Python
Fixing “TypeError: object is not subscriptable” in Python
You used square brackets on something that does not support them: an int, a None, a function, a method you forgot to…
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