Docker has become a tool that developers can’t live without in less than a decade since its release. Docker provides lightweight containers to run services in isolation from other processes in the system. If you haven’t yet been properly introduced to Docker, follow our introduction to Docker guide before continuing with this tutorial.

In today’s tutorial, we are going to learn how to containerize applications that require more than one Docker container with Docker Compose. Though it’s possible to set up this system with only Docker, we can complete this task more easily and efficiently using Docker Compose.

Let’s get…

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I often hear or talk to people who want to get into tech, who want to learn to code, but they are terrified of its idea. It is common for people to think that to be a programmer, a web developer, you have to be a computer nerd, genius, or have some kind of innate talent for computer science, and it couldn’t be any more wrong.

Sure, computer science is a super…

Google has become so integral in our lives that we now use the verb “Google” to refer to the action of using this search engine giant. Using a few chosen keywords, you can find everything from the nearest grocery store to the latest developments in the world.

Sometimes, though, the magic of Google fails to give us the type of results we are searching for. You try different combinations of keywords and go deep into the search results but still fail to find what you want.

But did you know that Google provides options to refine your search and filter…

There’s more than one way to solve a problem, but not all of them are the best. Not every solution is capable of efficiently using our resources. Therefore we need to find the best, most efficient solution to a problem before taking action.

In programming, we can’t leave the mechanism of finding the best solution, the best algorithm, to guesswork. We need a clear standard to evaluate the efficiency of solutions. This is where the concepts of time and space complexity step in. They help us determine the algorithm’s efficiency based on the required resources.

In this article, we are…

Folium is a Python package that combines all the spectrum of tools Python offers to manipulate data with the Leaflet JavaScript library to create rich and interactive maps.

As usual for my articles, I’m providing a Google Colab Jupyter notebook with all the code and results.

Create a Basic Map

Before we start building anything, let’s install some libraries that we will be using throughout the tutorial. You can use any packaging tool. I’ll provide the examples for Pipenv and for pip prepending !, so that it works on Jupyter notebooks, like Google Colab.

pipenv install folium pandasOr!pip install folium pandas

After…

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Choosing our first programming language is a dilemma most of us have gone through when we were taking our first, tentative steps on this programming journey.

Your first programming language becomes a deciding factor that shapes your impression of programming itself. And it could be the thing that convinces you to continue further or abandon learning programming completely.

So if you are someone entirely new to programming, hoping to dip your toes into the field to see what all the buzz around it is about, you have to be extra careful when picking the first programming language.

Your reasons for…

A few days back, we did an introduction to NLP with Python that got some really positive feedback. Thus, I decided to write about a use case of NLP that I love: sentiment analysis.

Though we already covered a bit of what it is and how it can be used with Python, today we will review the topic in more detail and work with actual data and practical examples. We will be working with text data from Twitter, so I’m sure it will be fun!

As usual, you can follow all the steps using the following Jupyter Notebook, or you…