Abstract: In many post-Colonial African countries, English is the medium of instruction at schools and universities. Many, if not most of the students, however, are not home language English speakers.

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Functions are the building blocks of Python programming. They let you organize your code, reduce repetition, and make your programs more readable and reusable. Whether you’re writing small scripts or ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Programming is a key transferable skill within the chemical sciences with applications ...

TIOBE Programming Index News August 2025: AI Copilots Are Boosting Python’s Popularity Your email has been sent Generative AI can be a self-fulfilling prophecy: Because gen AI scans vast amounts of ...

An Introduction to Programming and Computer Science with Python, second edition is a free, open source textbook available under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Originally developed for UVM’s CS 1210 ...

The man accused of assassinating one state lawmaker in Minnesota and shooting another could face the federal death penalty. He tried to attack two other officials, prosecutors said, and had many more ...

Three hunters captured a massive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades on May 31, 2025. The longest Burmese python ever recorded was 19 feet long, caught in 2023. The heaviest python caught weighed ...

Two years ago, when visiting research colleagues in Uppsala, Sweden, we were asked a deceptively simple question: “What does it mean to program?” For context, one of us had just completed academic ...