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07 Oct 2010

Bill Gates`Favorite Teacher : KhanAcademy

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While surfing the internet, I found the following headline: “Bill Gates`s Favorite Teacher” , I thought that was something related to some old guy from Harvard College, but yes that was some guy from Harvard(a 33 years old guy) that got his master in Harvard.

The name is Salman Khan, and he founded the Non-Profit Khan Academy (khanacademy.org), one of the most brilliant  collection of online “classes/teaching/courses/knowledge transfer/videos” I have ever seen.

He has the capability to teach the lessons in a very simple , yet effective manner, you should give it a try, below there is a sample lesson from the website, for more visit http://www.khanacademy.org/.

05 Oct 2010

A little Cup of Python Code : Search Engine for Python Code – Nullege

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As my current topic is being search engines ( I really do not know how that thing has started), today I come with Nullege, an awesome search engine for Python Code. Sometimes, it is really a pain to find some useful, concise and precise info about some python function/code/project and Nullege makes it very easy, so much easier I would say.

Their definition:

Nullege is a search engine for Python source code. It helps you find working samples for Python libraries from production-quality open source projects.

Unlike generic search engines, Nullege really understands Python and knows

1 class InspectionFrame(wx.Frame):
2 def SaveSettings(self, config):
3 w, h = self.GetSize()

is a sample for wx.Frame.GetSize(). It also tries to bring you more information in the first search result page, so you can find the right example with fewer clicks.

Nullege is growing every day. If you can’t find a sample for a library, or have ideas or feature requests, or just want to let us know that Nullege is useful (or not), please send us a mail, or click the ‘feedback’ button on the right.


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