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Setting Default Values

By default, attempting to lookup the value for a key which does not exist will return nil. You can optionally specify some other value to return (or an action to take) when the hash is accessed with a non-existent key. Although this is referred to as "the default value", it need not be a s...

Ruby Language • Hashes

Null and Undefined

The differences between null and undefined null and undefined share abstract equality == but not strict equality ===, null == undefined // true null === undefined // false They represent slightly different things: undefined represents the absence of a value, such as before an identifier/...

JavaScript • Comparison Operations

Basic Slicing

For any iterable (for eg. a string, list, etc), Python allows you to slice and return a substring or sublist of its data. Format for slicing: iterable_name[start:stop:step] where, start is the first index of the slice. Defaults to 0 (the index of the first element) stop one past the last in...

Python Language • Indexing and Slicing

Making a shallow copy of an array

A quick way to make a copy of an array (as opposed to assigning a variable with another reference to the original array) is: arr[:] Let's examine the syntax. [:] means that start, end, and slice are all omitted. They default to 0, len(arr), and 1, respectively, meaning that subarray that we are ...

Python Language • Indexing and Slicing

Reversing an object

You can use slices to very easily reverse a str, list, or tuple (or basically any collection object that implements slicing with the step parameter). Here is an example of reversing a string, although this applies equally to the other types listed above: s = 'reverse me!' s[::-1] # '!em esrever...

Python Language • Indexing and Slicing

Automatic Merging

When the commits on two branches don't conflict, Git can automatically merge them: ~/Stack Overflow(branch:master) » git merge another_branch Auto-merging file_a Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy. file_a | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Git • Merging

Sending objects to a generator

In addition to receiving values from a generator, it is possible to send an object to a generator using the send() method. def accumulator(): total = 0 value = None while True: # receive sent value value = yield total if value is None: break # aggr...

Python Language • Generators

Introduction

Generator expressions are similar to list, dictionary and set comprehensions, but are enclosed with parentheses. The parentheses do not have to be present when they are used as the sole argument for a function call. expression = (x**2 for x in range(10)) This example generates the 10 first perfe...

Python Language • Generators

Getting Started

Create a new HTML file and paste the following content: <!DOCTYPE html> <html ng-app> <head> <title>Hello, Angular</title> <script src="https://code.angularjs.org/1.5.8/angular.min.js"></script> </head> <body ng-init="name=...

AngularJS • Getting started with AngularJS

Extract the URLs and titles of links

Jsoup can be be used to easily extract all links from a webpage. In this case, we can use Jsoup to extract only specific links we want, here, ones in a h3 header on a page. We can also get the text of the links. Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://stackoverflow.com").userAgent("Mozi...

Jsoup • Getting started with Jsoup

Using CSS transform

CSS transforms are based on the size of the elements so if you don't know how tall or wide your element is, you can position it absolutely 50% from the top and left of a relative container and translate it by 50% left and upwards to center it vertically and horizontally. Keep in mind that with this...

CSS • Centering

Hello World Using Variables

Create a new file called hello.sh with the following content and give it executable permissions with chmod +x hello.sh. Execute/Run via: ./hello.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash # Note that spaces cannot be used around the `=` assignment operator whom_variable="World" # Use printf to sa...

Bash • Getting started with Bash

Getting Started

Creating a database in MySQL CREATE DATABASE mydb; Return value: Query OK, 1 row affected (0.05 sec) Using the created database mydb USE mydb; Return value: Database Changed Creating a table in MySQL CREATE TABLE mytable ( id int unsigned NOT NULL auto_increme...

MySQL • Getting started with MySQL

Rounding

Rounding Math.round() will round the value to the closest integer using half round up to break ties. var a = Math.round(2.3); // a is now 2 var b = Math.round(2.7); // b is now 3 var c = Math.round(2.5); // c is now 3 But var c = Math.round(-2.7); // c is now -3 va...

JavaScript • Arithmetic (Math)

Using a generator to find Fibonacci Numbers

A practical use case of a generator is to iterate through values of an infinite series. Here's an example of finding the first ten terms of the Fibonacci Sequence. def fib(a=0, b=1): """Generator that yields Fibonacci numbers. `a` and `b` are the seed values""" ...

Python Language • Generators

Apply Margin on a Given Side

Direction-Specific Properties CSS allows you to specify a given side to apply margin to. The four properties provided for this purpose are: margin-left margin-right margin-top margin-bottom The following code would apply a margin of 30 pixels to the left side of the selected div. View Resu...

CSS • Margins

Adding a submodule

You can include another Git repository as a folder within your project, tracked by Git: $ git submodule add https://github.com/jquery/jquery.git You should add and commit the new .gitmodules file; this tells Git what submodules should be cloned when git submodule update is run.

Git • Submodules

Cloning a Git repository having submodules

When you clone a repository that uses submodules, you'll need to initialize and update them. $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/username/repo.git This will clone the referenced submodules and place them in the appropriate folders (including submodules within submodules). This is equivale...

Git • Submodules

Link to an anchor

Anchors can be used to jump to specific tags on an HTML page. The <a> tag can point to any element that has an id attribute. To learn more about IDs, visit the documentation about Classes and IDs. Anchors are mostly used to jump to a subsection of a page and are used in conjunction with header...

HTML • Anchors and Hyperlinks

str.format and f-strings: Format values into a string

Python provides string interpolation and formatting functionality through the str.format function, introduced in version 2.6 and f-strings introduced in version 3.6. Given the following variables: i = 10 f = 1.5 s = "foo" l = ['a', 1, 2] d = {'a': 1, 2: 'foo'} The following statem...

Python Language • String Methods