HackerEarth, with a community of around 4 million+ developers all around the world, is a highly sought after tech platform to hire quality developers. The coding problems on this platform are very exciting and challenging which can help you build a solid foundation on various topics like data structures and algorithms, data science and to say the least you can also participate in the different world class Hackathons. I have been crunching data for past few years and just two days back read this amazing survey that Hacker Earth has done where 16000 developers participated from 76 nations.

Below are my conclusions/findings on each and every data points they have represented…

I love Data. Period.

Like every day (30 minutes reading ritual before starting my office work), I was going through some great data science and machine learning articles to keep myself abreast of latest trends/info and I found a great survey that was done by HackerRank.

In this post, I’m going to cover the trends in the developers’ community in 2020. Let’s dive in!

Which role is in demand?

The results indicate that Larger companies are more likely to want to hire specialists as compared to smaller companies (startups) which considers full-stack developers more important.

Recently I received an email from one of my readers asking me to write about Python’s complex topics such as Iterators, Generators, and Decorators. In this post, I’m going to cover the basics, implementation, and how to use them in your code.

Iterators

An iterator is an object that can be iterated upon which means that you can traverse through all the values. List, tuples, dictionaries, and sets are all iterable objects.

To create an object as an iterator you have to implement the methods __iter__() and __next__() to your object where —

__iter__() returns the iterator object itself. …

I haven’t met anyone who is NOT obsessed with HBO’s Game of Thrones. For the techies, also Game of Thrones fans, it’s easy to find similarities between Game of Throne characters and multifarious programming languages, state of art technologies and IDE’s that rule ur lives.

Like every programming language/tech has its own quirks and idiosyncrasies, every character in Game of Thrones have his/her own unique persona, strengths and flaws.

Here we go (last one is hilarious!) —

Arya Stark —> Programming Language : Swift

She’s tough, rough and extremely skilled to face the big bad world. Personally Arya was my favorite character. …

Python is one of the most popular and widely used programming language in the tech world.

At the age of 50, her menstruation stopped, emotions dried, memory cells started dying and wrinkles accelerated into her soul-less life together. She couldn’t take it anymore.

I hardly write about stuff which is unrelated to the tech but this story moved me.

Every geography, every community in this world have some dyed in the wool traditions. In the traditional Chinese culture (including many other culture) —

Sons are preferred over daughters, and a woman who fails to give birth to a boy will be looked down upon by her husband and his family.

This story gave me goosebumps and I thought of writing this piece as my last post of 2020. …

Programmer’s life is full of roller coaster ride. This is third part of the Programming horror and humor series. For the last two parts please scroll to the end of the post.

Let’s dive in !

Many colors of Code

As a software engineer/coder one should keep learning new technologies and stay informed about the current developments in tech. Holidays are the best time to learn something new, upscale your knowledge base and skills. In this post, I’ll be covering the Top 5 free Data Science, AI & ML courses you can finish during holidays.

Lets dive in —

Caltech — Learning from Data

By Caltech Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa

Details —

This is a great course in ML with the perfect balance of theory and practical exercises covering basic theory, algorithms, and applications.

Topics covered —

• What is learning?
• Can a machine learn?
• How to do it? …