Herrmens

@Herrmens@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The State of Developer Ecosystem 2023⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing really surprising to me, but the burnout rate really worries me.

  Also having only 5% females in the field is a shame, would love to see that increased over the next decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The German government is working on an OSS "Sovereign Workplace"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But surprised by the backlash here, but I was thinking 21 century Germany.

  And in the last 20 years germany did not manage to do anything when it comes to digitalization. Hell, our schools still use overhead projectors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The German government is working on an OSS "Sovereign Workplace"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am curious how this will turn out. Germany is not known for state driven digital innovation and this is a huge project.

  Even though I am highly sceptic, I hope they finally manage to get something going because Germany and whole Europe needs more independence from US hyperscalers.

  I fear this will die in good old German bureaucracy though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You could also use something like JustTheRecipe If you want something for free to get rid of the clutter plainoldrecipe might be a thing. Though the server was down last time I checked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨need help with some fundamentals of for loops. it looks like im so close to fully grasping grabbing an item out of a list, but not quite. examples below⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure how to help you with this, since that will change with what you want to archive in the loop. But maybe writing it in pseudo code might help:

  For each letter in the word for letter, position in enumerate(word): You want to check if your guess is the letter if letter == guess: If it is you want to add the letter to your display , exactly on the position it is in the original word display[position] = letter

  Does that kind of thinking help?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨need help with some fundamentals of for loops. it looks like im so close to fully grasping grabbing an item out of a list, but not quite. examples below⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the other guys have already explained it quite well, but here are some more goodies that might interest you.

  Your first attempt of filling the display is the more pythonic way in my opinion and it works, so instead of initializing an empty array and the filling it, just use display = [“_”]*word_length

  Also for evaluating if the guess is in the word, there is a very nice iterator called enumerate, that hands you two values, the index and the actual value of the item, so you can use it like this:

  for position, letter in enumerate(chosen_word):
      if letter == guess:
          display[position] = letter
  

  Also, to play the full game you want to surround your guessing part with a while loop, so you can keep guessing until you have found the word. For this you will have to create a list of characters that resemble your chosen_word. There are several ways to do so and I will try to explain some of them.

  Here we are using the unpacking asterisk, that unpacks each character of your string into an item in the list

  while (display != [*chosen_word]):
      guess = input("Guess a letter: ").lower()
  
      for position, letter in enumerate(chosen_word):
          if letter == guess:
              display[position] = letter
      print(display)
  

  Another way would be explicitly casting the string into a list with the list function like this:

  while (display != list(chosen_word)):

  Last but not least we could use something like list comprehension, which is seen as very pythonic but a bit weird to look at when you are not used to it.

  while (display != [letter for letter in chosen_word]):

  What this essentially does is the same as creating a for loop and filling a list like this, but more comprehensive:

  chosen_word_list = []
  for letter in chosen_word:
      chosen_word_list.append(letter)
  

  W3Schools has some nice info about list comprehension. It is a rather advanced concept though so don’t let it bother you if you don’t get it right away.

  Happy coding :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some examples of modest dictators in history?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In Jugoslavia most people saw Tito as a benevolent dictator. Once he died Jugoslavia fell apart. Obviously the history behind it is a bit more complex, but most people I have talked to in those countries saw him as a “good leader” that lead the country in a direction the people appreciated. Propaganda still played a big role in it and people with more historical knowledge will be able to comment a bit better in this topic. But he is the only one who comes to my mind.