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Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
In my journey to become a somewhat competent Kotlin developer, I've decided to implement a few of the basic data structures that I've picked up during my three years of computer science studies. First up, we have a generic binary tree. This is an interesting case, because it lets us …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
I've recently started dabbling in some Kotlin, and have found it a very pleasant
experience. One of the first things I wanted to do was to create a standalone
.jar file, including the Kotlin runtime and any other dependencies. This,
as it turns out, was a bit tricky. In this …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
Whenever I find myself occupied with some monotonous task, I very much enjoy listening to podcasts. As programming is my number one passion, and Python is my favorite language, I tend to listen to podcasts that relate to them. In this post, I'll give a brief overview of my three …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
Any Python programmer will sooner or later want to (or have to) write a class.
With classes come self, the seemingly (do note the emphasis there)
magical keyword that you just have to write out as the first parameter to every
method. To really understand classes, you need to understand …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
This is the second part in a two part series on Python properties. In Part 1 (which readers will be assumed to have at least skimmed through), we saw how a property can be used to create a read-only attribute that can be accessed like any data attribute (i.e …