is vs ==

❓You might have heard somewhere that the Python identity operator (is) is faster than the equality operator (==), or you may feel that it looks more Pythonic. But actually there's a subtle difference between this operators.

❗️The == operator compares the value or equality of two objects, whereas the is operator checks whether two variables point to the same object in memory. In the vast majority of cases, this means you should use the equality operators == and !=, except when you’re comparing to None.

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Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet 📚

Without a doubt, this the biggest Python cheat sheet I've ever seen.

This guide essentially breaks down Collections Types, Syntax, System commands, Data Types, Advanced commands and a lot of the basics that are pretty much a requirement to know. Whether you plan on going into software engineering, data science or anything else, learning these concepts will be the fundamental building blocks for your programs.

🔗Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet
🔗GitHub repo

P.S. Thank @b0nd07 for sharing this 🤗

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Create a platformer game with Python 👾

🔸Arcade is an easy-to-learn Python library for creating 2D video games. It is ideal for beginning programmers, or programmers who want to create 2D games without learning a complex framework.

⚙️Installation
pip install arcade

🔗Arcade Academy Homepage
🔗In-depth guide

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Game Development with Pygame 📺

In this series, you will use pygame to learn the fundamentals of game development by creating 3 types of games: shoot 'em up, platformer and tile-based game.
Even though the playlist is a quite old (last updated on Dec 17, 2016), this is the most complete tutorial on the pygame library. I've used it to learn Python game development as a part of university research project last year, so I definitely recommend it.

1. Game Development 1-1: Getting Started with Pygame [YouTube]
2. Game Development 1-2: Working with Sprites [YouTube]
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58. Tile-based game Part 22: Game Over [YouTube]

🔗Full YouTube playlist

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Build Your Website Quickly and Easily

🔸Flask is a popular Python web framework, designed to easily build web applications, with the ability to scale up to complex ones.

⚙️Installation
pip install Flask

It gives developers flexibility and is a more accessible framework for new developers since you can build a web application quickly using only a single Python file. Flask is also extensible and doesn’t force a particular directory structure or require complicated boilerplate code before getting started.

🔗Docs
🔗Official tutorial
🔗GitHub
🔗Compilation of Flask tutorials

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Free Python online course by MIT 🐍

If you're looking for great free course to start your Python programming journey, "Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python" by MIT (#2 university in global ranking) is definitely for you.

The goal of this course is to provide students with a brief introduction to many topics so they will have an idea of what is possible when they need to think about how to use computation to accomplish some goal later in their career.

You will learn:
▪️The Python programming language
▪️Some simple algorithms
▪️Testing and debugging
▪️Data structures

🔗Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python
🔗Intro (YouTube video)

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How to Measure Code Execution Time in Python?

The timeit module provides a simple way to time small bits of Python code. It has both a Command-Line Interface as well as a callable one. It avoids a number of common traps for measuring execution times.

To measure the execution time of a statement, simply use the timeit.timeit() function. It accepts the following input parameters:
▪️stmt – String containing the code snippets for your test case.
▪️setup – Initial code that will be executed once.
▪️timer – The timer instance. It is defaulted to time.perf_counter(), which returns a float.
▪️number – Number of executions to be carried out. The default value is 1,000,000.
▪️globals – Specifies a namespace in which to execute the code.

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