Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in ...

Microsoft has released the March update for its popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), its widely used cross-platform code editor. It's also released an update for Java on VS Code ...

I recently facilitated a workshop for high school physics teachers in South Africa (two workshops actually---one in Johannesburg and one in Cape Town). The goal of the workshop was to introduce ...

Loops are a commonly used structure in programming that allows you to repeat a block of code a set number of times, or until you meet a particular condition. This is useful for many reasons. For ...

Microsoft has released the March 2020 update for its Visual Studio Code (VS Code) open-source code editor for Windows 10, macOS, and Linux systems with bug fixes, accessibility improvements, better ...

Once you know how to add and use a Python module, you will greatly extend the capabilities of the language. A Python module is an external class or set of functions that exist outside the main file of ...