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A couple of weeks ago, I volunteered for a undergraduate teaching assistant position for an introductory course on microcontrollers and embedded systems for sophomores. It was an unpaid position and required me to dedicate 4-5 hours a week for labs. My application was accepted and I have been...

We got started in Python with simple assignment statements and the print statement in the last entry. In this one, we'll examine the some Python innards and its type system. Let us examine how Python converts your code into a machine-readable form. In languages like C or C++, it is the...

For all of high school C++ was my favorite language for writing general applications - probably because of the similarity to C and my laziness to try and learn an entirely new language. For some reason, I didn't get to do a whole lot of C++ in college because of an EE major. I tried playing...