Epic Beginnings...
Welcome to the first newsletter in this series!
Welcome to the first installment of Coding Tech Tuesdays, currently brought to you from Megh Mistry 😎!
The aim of this newsletter is to increase your knowledge of tech and programming in general so that you get the hang of the new world that we are living in. We will be learning coding (don’t worry it won’t be overwhelming), covering latest tech news, and teaching you concepts that might seem overwhelming (THINK BLOCKCHAIN ;) ). Everything will be broken down so that each article will teach everyone something new, beginners to advanced levels.
If you have not read any of my past newsletters (which is fine 😊), my newsletters are typically very short, and main concepts are bolded so that the people who don’t have much time can skip through my articles under 5 minutes!
Lets dive right into today’s Coding Tech Tuesday:
Coding Concepts 🧑💻:
Beginner 😕:
We will be starting with a language called Python! (You may have heard of it!)
Today we will simply be learning one line of code and a few concepts so that it is short and sweet!
Python is an extremely simple and easy-to-learn language, and it is actually helpful (unlike Scratch, which I extremely dislike 😞)
Today we will be covering the
print()function in Python:
If you want to know where to run Python, hop onto replit.com and sign up!
So when you are signed-up and have answered all the questions, you should see a dashboard like this
Click “Create” and in the Template section, choose Python, and Title it whatever you want!
Once the “Repl” has loaded up, you shall see a screen like this:
In the Big Box under main.py, type in:
print("Hello World")Click The “Run” button.
In the box with “console” written over it, there should be text saying “Hello World”!
Boom! You wrote your first (or one of the first) program!
In Python, there is a "
print()” function (that is what it is called), which prints whatever you put inside of it to the console (where the code is run!) Always remember to put whatever you put inside the “print()” function in double quotes (“”).If you wish to read more on the print function (🤓🤓) (and possibly learn more functions until next week), I recommend this website provided by W3 Schools: https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_func_print.asp
Your Weekly Dose of Tech News 🗞️:
Google just released a new smartwatch called the Google Pixel Watch
For you non-geeks, this watch is basically like a better Fitbit smartwatch, and it looks like a pebble (quite an expensive pebble, starting at $349 USD for the base model).
If you want to read more about this smart watch (🤓), you can visit Tom’s Guide about the watch:
Cool Technology ⚙️:
New Computer Chip Architecture Created That is Ideal for A.I
This computer chip is transistor-free, meaning that its fundamental architecture is different.
In a normal computer, data must move from the CPU to the GPU for processing, but this movement takes too much time. This makes it very slow (meaning the latency is unavoidable).
In this new architecture (basically how a computer is designed),the memory and processing are done in the same place, meaning that there is almost no latency to process the data, making it ideal for tasks that require high amounts of data transferred quickly. This new architecture is called CIM (compute-in-memory)
If you are highly interested (🤓🤓🤓), here is the diagram and article that gives more information about CIM:
