It’s a fairly common use case: given some latitude and longitude coordinates, find results close to those points. Fortunately for us application developers, MongoDB makes these sorts of queries relatively painless. It has built-in support for geospatial querying that enable applications to search the dataset for points near a given set of coordinates. In order
Technical interviews for Software Engineers are notorious for obscure questions. The goal for the interviewer is to observe how you approach a problem and to try to understand your thought process. The better you can convey your thought process in words while coming up with a correct solution to the problem, the better your chances
In the previous three posts of this series I evaluated three core tenets of object oriented programming and how well (or not well) Python implements them. Those tenets were polymorphism, inheritance, and encapsulation. Before I state my conclusion, I want to point out one more aspect of object oriented programming in Python which I find
If you have not already done so, go back and read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series before proceeding. So, we left off with a tie ball game. I gave Python a point for its approach to polymorphism but it lost a point for its sloppy inheritance support. So, it all comes down
If you’re coming from Part 1, you probably think I’m a pretty big fan of Python. Well here is where I start to set the record straight. As I mentioned in the previous post, I believe that all good object oriented programming languages should have proper support for inheritance. But, what exactly is proper with
I’ve been writing code for over half of my life. Used Javascript, C, Perl, PHP, Java, Ruby, C#, and even Haskell. But never — not ONCE — have I ever written a single line of Python. With Python making a surge in popularity due to some popular AI and ML libraries, I figured I would