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Prepping for the Python MTA Certification (Exam 98-381): Performing Operations with Modules and Tools

Posted on January 5, 2020March 23, 2020

Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4– Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 I plan to get my Microsoft Technology Associate certificate in Python programming and figured I’d take my notes publicly as I prepare. Call it learning in public or review notes or whatever – I’m just interested in passing on my first attempt.  ( more… )

Prepping for the Python MTA Certification (Exam 98-381): Troubleshooting and Error Handling

Posted on November 11, 2019February 4, 2020

Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4– Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 I plan to get my Microsoft Technology Associate certificate in Python programming and figured I’d take my notes publicly as I prepare. Call it learning in public or review notes or whatever – I’m just interested in passing on my ( more… )

Prepping for the Python MTA Certification (Exam 98-381): Documenting and Structuring Code

Posted on October 16, 2019February 4, 2020

Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 I plan to get my Microsoft Technology Associate certificate in Python programming and figured I’d take my notes publicly as I prepare. Call it learning in public or review notes or whatever – I’m just ( more… )

Prepping for the Python MTA Certification (Exam 98-381): Input and Output Operations

Posted on September 30, 2019February 4, 2020

Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 I plan to get my Microsoft Technology Associate certificate in Python programming and figured I’d take my notes publicly as I prepare. Call it learning in public or review notes or whatever – I’m just interested ( more… )

Prepping for the Python MTA Certification (Exam 98-381): Control Flow with Decisions and Loops

Posted on September 23, 2019February 4, 2020

Part 1 – Part 2 –  Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 I plan to get my Microsoft Technology Associate certificate in Python programming and figured I’d take my notes publicly as I prepare. Call it learning in public or review notes or ( more… )

Prepping for the Python MTA Certification (Exam 98-381): Data Types and Operators

Posted on September 22, 2019February 4, 2020

Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 –Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 I plan to get my Microsoft Technology Associate certificate in Python programming and figured I’d take my notes publicly as I prepare. Call it learning in public or review notes or whatever ( more… )

Filling Out Input Elements on a Web Form with One Method Call Using Python and Selenium

Posted on September 18, 2019September 25, 2019

I’m constantly needing to fill out forms when unit testing, so I need to make this process as simple as possible. Today I’ll cover a simple method that allows you to fill out all text inputs on a page just by sending a Python dictionary. This is an expansion on ( more… )

Writing an Element Clicker with Python and Selenium That Takes ID, CSS Selector, or XPath

Posted on September 13, 2019September 25, 2019

When unit testing using Python and Selenium, it’s usually easiest to click a button with an element’s ID, but I’ve found a more flexible solution that doesn’t require multiple different function calls to be best. To that end, here’s a method I’ve written that one can use to click a ( more… )

Inserting a Blank Row into an Excel Spreadsheet Using OpenPyXL

Posted on March 28, 2019September 25, 2019

Sometimes one’s work environment leaves one doing things in weird ways, like storing data in an Excel spreadsheet rather than a database. I have found myself in this situation before, and while it’s not exactly ideal, libraries like openpyxl make things a little bit more possible. In my situation, I knew that in ( more… )

Tackling the FreeCodeCamp Telephone Number Validator, Step by Step

Posted on February 6, 2019September 25, 2019

I’m working on my FreeCodeCamp JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures certificate. I’ve used regular expressions quite a bit in various projects, but I’ve never really felt confident about them, you know? When I read this problem, though, I knew I was going to need to develop some mastery, because there’s not a ( more… )

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