Python and CSV – Working With Excel Spreadsheets In Python

September 3, 2012December 24, 2015 ~ Prateek Joshi ~ 9 Comments

We are all familiar with Excel spreadsheets. They are used everywhere to make tables and keep track of stuff in general. Excel offers nice functionalities as well. When we are dealing with a huge number of entries, manipulating these values manually becomes tedious. Consider a situation where there are 1000 rows and 25 columns in … Continue reading Python and CSV – Working With Excel Spreadsheets In Python

Command Line Within Python

August 30, 2012November 4, 2013 ~ Prateek Joshi ~ Leave a comment

One of the cool things about Python is that you can do absolutely anything and everything with it. This blog post deals with using command line within Python. When you are writing your code in Python, you might want to access the command line to run a couple of commands like ls, grep, make etc. … Continue reading Command Line Within Python

Inside The Shell of Shell Scripting

June 7, 2012September 5, 2012 ~ Prateek Joshi ~ 2 Comments

I'm pretty sure people working in the tech domain are aware of something called Shell Scripting. Were you ever working on a project and felt that some tasks were repeating over and over again? Did you feel that there should be an easy way to automate these things and you don't have to worry about … Continue reading Inside The Shell of Shell Scripting

Deconstructing The Geek Talk In The Movie ‘The Social Network’

May 26, 2012November 13, 2013 ~ Prateek Joshi ~ 5 Comments

Recently, I was watching a random Youtube video and I stumbled across a video which showed a scene from the movie 'The Social Network'. This is a conversation between Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. In this scene, Zuck is interviewing candidates for the internship job in California for his company. It goes something like this: … Continue reading Deconstructing The Geek Talk In The Movie ‘The Social Network’