Programming with Python: Functions and Variables

The title may make this lesson look like a scary mesh of gibberish to some of you. Not literally the title, but the general idea of what we are going to being working on today. But don’t worry; this isn’t a hard concept to get at all. So let’s get started on this lesson of programing with python. Firstly, we have to set up words to define. These words can be defined with both numbers and letters. What I mean by this is, we can have the word “Tom” equal “100” or for every time we have the function “print: Tom” we can have it print out the phrase “Is cool!” Sounds fun right? So, how do we achieve this? To put it quite simply, just as easy as I made it sound out to be. Look at the image below to get the idea of what the code will look like. 

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How to Setup and Use Virtual Box

Today I am going to show you how to setup and use a program called Virtual Box. Virtual Box is a virtual machine that emulates both hardware and software of a computer. Meaning you can run Windows on your Mac with no hassle what so ever. Firstly, I would like to say setting up this program isn’t as hard as you may think. So let’s dive right in, and get you on your way to using a Virtual Machine so you can experience a different kind of operating system today.

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Five CMS Platforms

Today we are going to be looking five CMS platforms that are free to use and available to you. So you might be asking to yourself, “what is a CMS platform?”. Well to put simply, CMS stands for Content Management System. This allows for users to easily modify their blogs or sites with not a lot of coding experience. However in this case, these are platforms that allow people to code and design their own themes and workable workstations for the applications usage. I was going to make this a top 5 kind of thing, but I realized that would only make people choose between what the top three were. So I thought telling you five would give you some variety to go check them out. I hope you find this somewhat useful, and have a nice day.

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Programming with Python: Print, Comment

Hello guys, today I am going to try my best to teach you some methods in programming. I am not a professional at this, but a guy who is learning it himself, but I figured by teaching others it would benefit them in some way while being able to me to get a review going on. So how are we going to do this? First, let me tell you what you will need. You’re going to need a text editor. No no, I don’t mean textedit or notepad. Here, you will need these.

(Mac) http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
(Windows)  http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Now we are going to need the actual programing software itself. This will allow us to work with the python interface while being able to edit the code in the long run. Since we are starting with python, I suggest you download Python 2.7.5, as we will be working with that in this series.

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Photoshop Slice Tool

Today we are going to take a look at one of the most essential tools in a web designer’s photoshop arsenal, the slice tool. I say this tool is essential because you have to slice images to make them an individual image in a theme or layout in a web design. This allows for you to give that segment a particular property and name to allow you to find it easier in the mix of all your other images. Also in this video I will be showing you how to save for web and devices which allows you to use those images or convert the images for a web format. This can also be essential in decreasing file size to make the image load quickly on the web. I hope you find this lesson somewhat useful. Thanks for watching.