Tulsa Boom Town is a project that was conceived by Tim McMacken. It’s purpose is to address the concern that there is a growing number of tech companies in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area, and for the most part, employers are having to outsource their software developers. As recent graduates of…

In computer science, computers can “learn” to do specific tasks in a variety of ways. The first and most traditional method is for a computer programmer to type code, which effectively “tells” the computer what s/he wants the computer to do. Another method, which is what this paper is going…

Because everything in Python is an object, one eventually will learn that one main difference between objects is that they can either be mutable or immutable. You see, every variable in Python holds an object instance, and when that object is created, it is assigned a unique object ID. This…

Libraries, why use them? In programming, libraries are collections of functions that may be used over and over. This eliminates the task of continuously rewriting them, thus saving time and effort. What are Static Libraries? Static libraries are libraries that exist only within one’s current program. They are read into…

LS is an extremely useful basic builtin within a linux shell. It takes all of the files within the current working directory and prints them to the terminal. It will ignore any hidden files which begin with “.”. For example a .git will not be displayed on a basic “ls”.

Within the Linux operating system, there is a built-in command called “gcc”. It is a C compiler, which basically means it takes source code (C language script) and turns it into an executable file. Here’s how: There are three steps gcc takes to fulfill this command. First, it reads the…