#python 2 and python 3 modules installation

I've finally finished my custom desktop, and installing all the software I need on my new laptop. So I thought I'd upload a tutorial on how I did it 🥰

I'm still not 100% happy with all the icon choices but I'll add swap ones out as I see them. Here's some tips on how I did it:

Making Windows 11 desktop shortcuts

Windows 11 makes it weirdly hard to make desktop shortcuts. Its easy with some apps, almost impossible with others. The easiest possible way which took me ages to find out is that if you go onto your windows start menu and click all apps, you can drag them onto the desktop to make a shortcut. It won't work from search, it has to be from the full list. Very annoying, but it works for pretty much every app.

Opening multiple links at once

I like having websites I frequently visit on my desktop, especially if its an online course I'm working on because it's like a reminder to do it. Sometimes there are websites that I always use together and to save time and space I've set up a way for them to open at the same time from one shortcut using python and windows batch files.

Heres how to do it:

Step 1) Make your script

Make sure you have python installed (you can find it in the windows app store)

Create a python script which opens the websites you want using the webbrowser module. This is the code you need

import webbrowser webbrowser.open_new_tab("your_url_here") webbrowser.open_new_tab("your_other_url")

Literally just copy and paste that into notepad, or an IDE (adding more lines if you need them) and save it with the extension .py to make it a python file.

Copy the path to your file location by right clicking your new file and choosing "copy as path"

2) Make a batch file

Open another tab in notepad and use the following script and copy the following template into it

Note - Please remove the slash between the @ and echo

@/echo off python "C:/your/file_path/here"

Save this file with the extention .bat which will run the code when its clicked and open all your urls. You are going to want to save this in your files somewhere , and then right click and choose create shortcut.

You are going to want to do this if you want to use a custom icon because windows doesn't let you directly change icons for batch files for security reasons.

How to make and use custom icons

Find your images

You can make your own but I saved mine from pinterest.

2) Remove the background

Use a background remover tool (I used remove.bg) to remove the background, if the image has lots of black or white it might remove this too but you can add it back in using a drawing app (I used procreate). Save it as a PNG.

3) Convert it to an ICO file

This is the type of file that can be used as icons in windows. The converter I used is convertio, but keep in mind there is a limit of 10 minutes a day for the free version.

4) Change the icons

Right click on the desktop shortcut, choose properties and then choose change icon. Find your .ICO file and click Ok.

Well, that was a very long post. But I hope it was helpful!

Learn Ethical Hacking From A-Z: Beginner To Expert Course

Learn how to become an elite ethical hacker and easily hack networks, computer systems, web apps and so much more…

What you’ll learn

Learn Ethical Hacking From A-Z: Beginner To Expert Course

How To Become An Elite Ethical Hacker

How To Setup A Hacking Lab

Learn How To Launch Attacks/Exploits Against Computers

How To Start A Cybersecurity/Ethical Hacking Career

How To Hack Into Wireless Networks

Learn How To Conduct Penetration Tests

How To Bypass Antivirus

The Fundamentals of Networking

How To Remain Anonymous On The Internet

The Fundamentals of Linux

The Fundamentals of Bash

How To Gather Website & App Data

The Fundamentals of Python

Maintaining Access To Exploited Computers

Website & Web Application Hacking

Mobile Phone Security Tips

Where You Can Practice Hacking For Free

Conducting Passive & Active Reconnaissance On A Network

Requirements

Basic IT/Computer Skills & Knowledge

Computer With At Least 8GB of RAM/Memory (Less is ok, but your computer may run slow!)

Wifi Hacking Section Only: USB Wireless Adapter (Link Provided In Course Resources)

You Do Not Need Any Prior Experience In Hacking Or Cybersecurity To Go Through This Course

Description

Welcome to – Learn Ethical Hacking From A-Z: Beginner To Expert Course! This practical, hands-on course was created for newbies – that’s to say, people with no prior training or knowledge in hacking and cybersecurity. The aim of this course is to give you the education not just to understand what black-hat hatters do and how, but also to learn exactly how to hack systems like a pro and win the cat and mouse game by securing systems like a professional security expert. Blending practical work with solid theoretical training, we take you from the basics of ethical hacking through to mastery, giving you the training you need not just to hack, but also to secure against a hack. While the theory is important, we understand that it can also be dry and uninspiring. For this reason, this course is packed with examples that you can follow. This practical focus starts from the beginning, where we will teach you about penetration testing and show you how to install the software required (Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX) and jump right into hacking. Throughout, you will analyze and exploit various systems from regular websites through to sprawling networks, along with hacking servers and clients. More than just hacking, you’ll also learn how to conduct efficient penetration testing techniques. This approach gives you the foundational education that you need not just to hack any given system, but also to secure it, with each module covering both sides of the coin. The course covers six main areas:

1: LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS NECESSARY TO BECOME A HACKER

This foundational section gives you a full introduction to the basics of networking systems – how they communicate and work – and is designed to give you the knowledge you need to succeed in this course. BASICS OF NETWORKING: Networking can be an intimidating topic, but don’t worry! We break down only the necessary things that you need to know in regards to networking and teach you important networking fundamentals SETTING UP A HACKING LAB: You can’t hack without a lab! We walk you step-by-step through the process of setting up your own hacking lab on your laptop or desktop computer! LINUX + SCRIPTING BASICS: Hackers use Linux, which is an OS that the average person may have no experience with. We will go over Linux fundamentals so that you can easily navigate your way through Linux during this course. We also touch on a couple of scripting languages that are a MUST for any ethical hacker and teach you the basics of each one with practical examples. HIDING YOUR IDENTITY ON THE WEB: If you are hacking on the internet, you need to learn how to remain anonymous. We will show you the tools and techniques that you can use to always remain anonymous and unknown on the internet.

2: LEARN HOW TO HACK NETWORKS

This section shows you how to test both wired and wireless systems. You will learn how to go from not having any access to a network to gaining access and being able to begin attacking systems on the network. PRE-CONNECTION ATTACK: Not all attacks require you to be connected to the target or even know the password. Learn how to discover and manipulate devices connected to a network and gather information about your target. GAIN ACCESS TO NETWORKS: Learn how to use the information you have about your target to crack the key and get the access password. This section covers multiple protocols including WEP, WPA, and WPA2. POST-CONNECTION ATTACKS: With a key, you can now leverage powerful hacking techniques to get even more information. Learn how to see what users are doing on a network, inject code in pages, and more on wired and wireless networks

3: HOW TO GAIN ACCESS AND CONNECT TO NETWORKS

This section builds on the lessons learned in section one, showing you how you can get full control and hack into any computer system that you target. SERVER-SIDE ATTACK: Discover how to harvest information about your targeted system – its OS, open ports, and installed services – without user interaction. Then use this information to exploit vulnerabilities and generate reports. CLIENT-SIDE ATTACK: Learn how to hack systems with no vulnerabilities by sneaking in with software updates or using backdoor trojan downloads. You’ll also learn the art of social engineering – or tricking people into giving you information.

4: HOW TO LEVERAGE POST EXPLOITATION

This section shifts the focus on interacting with compromised systems. Now that you have gained access, you’ll learn how you can exploit these systems. ACCESS FILE SYSTEMS: All systems have a wealth of files that you can now manipulate with your access. Learn how to access these systems and how to read, write, upload, and even execute files. MAINTAIN ACCESS: Gaining access to a system and its files is only half of the battle. Learn how to maintain your access and frustrate efforts to secure it again so you can continue to exploit a system. SPY ON YOUR TARGET: Learn how to capture any keystrokes on a keyboard, turn on a computer webcam, take screenshots, and even take control of the system to attack, hack, and access third-party networks and systems.

5: HOW TO HACK WEBSITES AND WEB APPS

In this section, you will learn more about how you can hack into websites and web applications using Kali Linux. You’ll also learn how web applications work – and how to find vulnerabilities within these applications for you to exploit. > How to scan websites/web applications for vulnerabilities to exploit. > How to Brute Force into web applications. > Learn how to conduct SQL injection in web applications. > How to conduct Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). > How to exploit File Inclusion Vulnerabilities. > Learn how to exploit File Upload Vulnerabilities. > How to automate attacking web applications using various tools. > How to prevent and secure websites & apps yourself.

6: HOW TO MAKE MONEY, LAND A JOB & BUILD A BRAND AS A HACKER

In this section, you will learn how you can make money as an ethical hacker using a variety of methods. You’ll also learn how to build your personal brand and get your name out there as an Ethical Hacker so you can have employers and clients knocking at your door ready to hire you for your services. Then finally, you’ll learn how you can start a career in cybersecurity with some insider tips on what certifications to get and the best way to land a job. This includes: > How to build an ethical hacker personal brand from scratch > How to get instant credibility and authority as a hacker > Learn how to properly network and get others talking about you > How to make money using a variety of websites > How to get started freelancing as a hacker > Learn how to get started consulting as a hacker > How to land a job as a cybersecurity professional This course is comprehensive, showing you both sides of hacking. You will learn to think and operate like a hacker – and how to apply that knowledge as a cybersecurity expert to protect you and your clients’ networks and systems. In taking this ‘cat and mouse approach, your rounded understanding will give your approach new depths and angles, revealing the paths you can take to effectively neutralize any threat. Together with the emphasis on practical examples that you can follow in real life with live systems, you will also benefit from the excitement of hands-on learning. By experiencing precisely what it takes to hack into any given target system, you’ll also learn that no one system is the same and that all approaches can be modified. This real-life learning is an invaluable part of your education, enabling you to better see what hackers are doing and how to block even the most potent attacks. No matter what the scenario or how complicated a hacking situation, this course gives you the foundational training you need to secure a network – and start pursuing a career in a field that is increasingly in demand as the global reliance on technology grows.

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This study is adapted from my presentation npm and the Future of JavaScript. No data is perfect; if you have questions about ours you can read about the methodology used to gather this data.

npm has over 10 million users who download well over 30 billion packages every month. On an average Tuesday—npm’s busiest day—users download more than 1.3 billion packages of open source JavaScript. This gives us a lot of information about what JavaScript users are up to. On top of that data, in partnership with the Node.js Foundation and the JS Foundation we survey of over 16,000 developers to ask what they’re up to.

From these two sources, we’ve uncovered some insights about the makeup of the npm community, as well as information about what the community considers to be best practices. This will help you make your technical choices in 2019.

JavaScript is the world’s most popular programming language

It’s no news to anyone that JavaScript is incredibly popular these days. Stack Overflow’s 2018 developer survey has JavaScript as the most popular programming language (with fellow web languages HTML and CSS at the #2 and #3 spots). GitHub’s most recent Octoverse infographic ranks languages by the number of pull requests received, and JavaScript is the top there, too.

The total number of JavaScript developers is hard to estimate. Slashdata’s 2018 survey suggests there were 9.7M by the end of 2017 and growing quickly, meaning there are well over 10M at this point. npm’s own estimates suggest there are over 10M npm users, and we see similarly rapid growth. There are JavaScript developers who do not yet use npm, but as a percentage of all JavaScript developers they are quite small, possibly fewer than 10%.

The npm Registry contributes to the popularity of JavaScript

Without question, JavaScript’s popularity is driven by its ubiquity as the only language directly usable for developing web applications. However, a fascinating paper by Leo Meyerovich and Ariel Rabkin at Berkeley studied the factors contributing to programming language adoption and found that, overall, the availability of open-source libraries relevant to the task at hand was the most important factor in selecting a programming language.

Our own survey data support the conclusions of this study. The most common reason respondents gave for choosing JavaScript was the number of libraries available.

With over 836,000 libraries currently available, npm is the largest single collection of open-source libraries in the world, by a significant margin—although JavaScript’s tendency towards smaller libraries means this comparison isn’t entirely apples-to-apples. Regardless, this enormous reservoir of open source code means that the popularity of JavaScript and npm works both ways: the language gains popularity because of the Registry, and vice versa.

npm is used to build every kind of application

We asked users where the JavaScript they write is used. An overwhelming 93% of respondents said that they write code for the web, with a still-substantial 70% saying they write JavaScript that runs on servers, i.e., Node.js. However, many other application areas including Internet of Things (IoT), desktop applications, native mobile applications, and others saw substantial numbers of users, too.

This is a significant change for those of us who work at npm, Inc. and maintain the npm command-line tool. npm was invented to serve the needs of server-side app developers, and the needs of web developers are different. Becoming a majority-web platform has meant changing our priorities, which has ledto new features like package locking by default.

npm is essential to web development

When npm, Inc. started in 2014, a tree of a few dozen JavaScript packages was typical. These days, the average modern web application has over 1000 modules, and trees of over 2000 modules are not uncommon. In fact, 97% of the code in a modern web application comes from npm. An individual developer is responsible only for the final 3% that makes their application unique and useful.

This is a huge success story for code reuse, for the strength of the npm community, and for open source in general. The time saved by not re-inventing the code in thousands of modules is saving millions of developers hundreds of millions of coding-hours.

npm has focused on security in 2018

To a great many developers, npm has simply become the way you build a website. This is a responsibility we take seriously. In our survey, 77% of developers said they were concerned about the quality and security of the open source libraries they used, and a worrying 52% said the tools currently available were inadequate. We went into more depth on these results in our post Attitudes to Security in the JavaScript community earlier this year.

In April, we announced that we acquired ^Lift Security and their product, the Node Security Platform. Today, the NSP is integrated directly into npm, and every install of npm includes security audits that notify users if they are installing insecure modules. We also furnish tools to easily correct these vulnerabilities by automatically installing secure versions of their modules. In addition, users of npm Enterprise and paid npm Organizations users receive notifications of embargoed vulnerabilities not yet publicly disclosed.

The demographics of npm users

The basic demographics of our survey respondents are covered in our methodology post, but there are several important facts worth highlighting:

1. We are mostly new. 25% have been using JavaScript for less than 2 years, and 51% have been using npm for less than 2 years. This is a side effect of the community doubling in size in that time!

2. We are mostly self-taught. 69% of npm users mostly taught themselves JavaScript, with the next highest being 22% who learned on the job.

We don’t just write JavaScript. People who use npm aren’t always strictly JavaScript developers—30% each report writing Java, PHP, and Python, and smaller numbers of lots of other languages.

We don’t just work at “tech” companies. 55% of npm users describe themselves as working at a company that wouldn’t be considered a “tech” company.

There are also some ways that npm users don’t differ from the general population of software developers, which is itself interesting. For example, npm users work at every size of company, in roughly the same proportion as those companies exist. JavaScript isn’t a “big company” or a “small company” tech. npm users also are evenly distributed across every industry, as well as other demographics such as age and education level.

Everybody would like less tooling

JavaScript in 2018 is somewhat notorious for requiring a lot of tooling to get going, which is quite a reversal from the situation in 2014, when Node.js was considered an “everything included” framework. Today, most developers wouldn’t consider Node to be a framework at all. True to that, all of our survey respondents would like to see less tooling, less configuration required to get started, and better documentation of the tools that do exist. But what tools?

We went in-depth into the popularity of JavaScript frameworks in our “State of JavaScript Frameworks” series (part 1, part 2, part 3) earlier this year. We won’t reiterate all the findings of that analysis, but rather dive into a few updates of what’s changed in the 9 months since then.

As a reminder, it’s important to understand the “share of registry” metric we are using here: a “flat” graph in this case means strong growth, just not growth relative to the growth of the registry, which is always growing quickly.

React’s growth has slowed

React continues to dominate the web scene. Over 60% of npm’s survey respondents say they are using React, and it has grown further since then. However, that growth in 2018 has been slower than in 2017.

Angular downloads have stayed flat

The two major flavors of Angular combined have stayed roughly flat in terms of market share.

Ember’s popularity has rebounded

In a very unusual phenomenon, Ember’s popularity, which appeared to be declining, has continued a strong rebound. By September, more than twice as many developers were using Ember as at the beginning of the year. We’re going to keep a close eye on this story, but we think Ember’s resurgence is part of the explanation for the slowdown in React.

Vue’s strong growth has continued

Vue was already growing quickly and that continued in 2018. Many Vue users report that they picked it over React because in their opinion it’s easier to get started while maintaining extensibility. Our current theory is that React’s growth has been slowed by many newer users picking Vue.

GraphQL continues hyper-growth

GraphQL, tracked by its most popular client library Apollo, continues to explode in popularity. We think it’s going to be a technical force to reckon with in 2019.

Transpilers rule, led by Babel—and a surprise: TypeScript

Babel is familiar to any React user as the tool used to transpile React’s next-generation JavaScript into the currently-supported JavaScript standards. In line with React’s 60% market share, 65% of npm users report using Babel. (It also has uses outside of the React ecosystem.)

Something of a surprise, however, was TypeScript, with 46% of survey respondents reporting they use Microsoft’s the type-checked JavaScript variant. This is major adoption for a tool of this kind and might signal a sea change in how developers write JavaScript. We are definitely going to be asking more questions about TypeScript usage in the next version of our survey.

npm’s predictions for 2019

It’s always difficult to make predictions about an ecosystem as huge, varied, and fast-changing as JavaScript, but our data has led us to make a few predictions for 2019 that we think we can commit to.

1. You will abandon one of your current tools. Frameworks and tools don’t last in JavaScript. The average framework has a phase of peak popularity of 3–5 years, followed by years of slow decline as people maintain legacy applications but move to newer frameworks for new work. Be prepared to learn new frameworks, and don’t hold on to your current tools too tightly.

2. Despite a slowdown in growth, React will be the dominant framework in 2019. 60% market share for a web framework is unheard-of, and that’s partly because React isn’t a full framework, just part of one. This allows it to flexibly cover more use-cases. But for building a web app in 2019, more people will use React than anything else, and that will result in a big advantage in terms of tutorials, advice, and bug fixes.

3. You’ll need to learn GraphQL. It might be too early to put GraphQL into production, especially if your API is already done, but 2019 is the year you should get your mind around the concepts of GraphQL. There’s a good chance you’ll be using them in new projects later in the year and in 2020.

4. Somebody on your team will bring in TypeScript. 46% adoption implies that TypeScript is more than just a tool for enthusiasts. Real people are getting real value out of the extra safety provided by type-checking. Especially if you’re a member of a larger team, consider adopting TypeScript into your 2019 projects.

Stay tuned

Introduction of Ionic Framework

Ionic is a complete open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app development created by Max Lynch, Ben Sperry and Adam Bradley of Drifty Co. in 2013. Ionic is world’s most popular cross platform mobile development technology. Basically it’s hybrid mobile app development framework. Using Apache Cordova, it can be easily run on mobiles. A big advantage of using Ionic is that the code base remains the same for all mobile platforms and the UI/UX looks like a native mobile platform. The good news is: if you can manage to create websites, you already know how to build mobile apps. Ionic Framework offers the best web and native app components for building highly interactive native and progressive web apps. It is the only mobile app stack which allows developers to design apps for all app stores and the mobile web, using an unique code base. Moreover, Ionic’s Platform Continuity guarantees your app will look superb on every single device. Ionic provides tools and services for developing hybrid mobile apps using Web technologies like CSS, HTML5, and Sass. Apps can be built with these Web technologies and then distributed through native app stores to be installed on devices by leveraging Cordova.

Benefits of Ionic Framework

Platform Independent Framework- Ionic can recognize the platform specific advanced CSS proportional to the native look and feel on different mobile operating systems. It reduces the requirement for code changing as it gives the codes of mobile-optimized HTML, JS, and CSS components. Apart from this, ionic integrates into Angular JS which becomes a robust structure making code excellent as well as more manageable. This empowers the Start-up entrepreneurs to come out with newer concepts at reduced budget.

Cross-Platform Mobile App Development with Ionic- Building an application without a moment's delay is essential, and it should be compatible with all mobile devices. However, it needs extremely limited use of time, assets and efforts, and helps in giving a unified look and feel. Besides, Ionic helps with building applications quickly and with expertise, and deploys standard tools with a solitary code base.

Default User Interface- Ionic has many default CSS and JS parts that cover the vast majority of the basic things you need to make a mobile application. . Apart from regular ones like buttons and navigation it also includes form inputs, lists, cards, sliding boxes and many more. These can be easily customized by adding CSS classes to the element. The default styles are basic, smooth, and you can without a doubt redo them by adding pre-defined CSS classes to the component.

Based on AngularJS- If you’ve worked upon Ionic, and then you would likely realize that it is developed on top of the Angular JS framework. The extensions to HTML's sentence structure offered by AngularJS are extremely useful for mobile app designers. The Ionic structure utilizes AngularJS to offer a bunch of center functionalities to the designer with the goal that they can incorporate alluring components into the application.  AngularJS is an ideal approach to make program based applications, while with the assistance of the Ionic structure, versatile designers can make hybrid applications and web applications.

Utilizes Cordova Plugins- Plugins play an essential part in Ionic application development. Modules are coded in JavaScript and come appended to the application. Ionic framework application development utilizes Cordova plugins to help designers in accessing different components of the versatile framework- for example, camera, GPS, and so on. According to your business and offered administrations, mobile app developers can utilize any of these modules to build their ideal mobile application.

There are a few good reasons to go with Ionic, depending on what you would be using it for:

1. Ionic use Angular’s MV* paradigm: If you are a web developer and want to be able to compete in the mobile space Ionic is great for you. Ionic uses HTML and CSS to lay out its views, so not only will you have all of the power of CSS transitions and canvas drawing, but you will also feel at home with the DOM. If you’ve ever used Angular in production, this will be doubly true for you, because the logic layers of Ionic use Angular’s MV* paradigm.

2.Desktop support: Ionic has added a flexible grid, and split-pane type features, allowing you to build mobile-first apps with responsive desktop layouts.

3.Open Web Standards: To paraphrase one of their founders, you’re betting on the open web, rather than getting stuck learning single-platform technologies that don’t carry over. (e.g. Learning CSS and DOM layouts versus Xcode’s autolayout)

4.Progressive Web Apps: This is a big trend on Google and Ionic’s radar, and it seems like Ionic is uniquely positioned to let you build app-class web experiences that can also be published in the App Store.

5.If you are bootstrapping a start-up and want to cut development time and cost by leveraging existing skill sets, Ionic is one of the best choices. Ionic creates apps for iOS, Android and Windows. It has default CSS that changes between versions for a Native experience. And all this can be done in JavaScript which is one of the most common programming languages known by developers now because of its ubiquity on the web. There are other frameworks around now that can achieve this in different languages, but most of them are not as popular or have as much support. So unless you have a specific reason you need to use python, Ruby, C++, Java etc. stick with Ionic or React Native in JavaScript or Xamarin in C#. Those are the most mature communities for cross-platform apps.

6. If you are new to web/mobile development the skills you will learn making things with Ionic will take you a lot further than what you will get with native. JavaScript is everywhere. It is more popular than Swift, and more importantly, it can be used for a lot more things. Java is really popular as well, but in my opinion, JavaScript seems to be slowly taking over Java’s position in the web development world. Companies that were built on java will stick around for a long time, but many new ones are being built on stuff like JavaScript, Ruby, Go and the like. And yes that list will be different in a few years, but Java will not be making it back on, and JavaScript will be the longest lasting one that is around for now.

7.Ionic Community: There’s a community of over 30,000 members on the Ionic forum, an active Slack Channel, and Ionic is the 45th or so most popular/starred repo on Github.

How to Install Ionic Framework

Make sure you have an up-to-date version of Node.js installed on your machine. If you don't have Node.js installed.

Open the command prompt and verify the Node.js version by using the command node -v.

To install Cordova and Ionic, use - npm install -g cordova ionic.

Make sure to install the latest version of JDK and Android Studio IDE for Android development.

To create a new project, use - ionic start projectname template.

Inside the project folder, you can add Android/iOS platform based on your development using the command - ionic cordova platform add android.

After these code changes are done, you can generate the required .apk file with the command - ionic cordova build android.

Once the .apk file is generated successfully, you deploy the file on a real device and do the testing, or you can test it as a web application using a browser.

To run it in a browser, use - ionic serve.

To run it on a device, use - ionic Cordova run android -device.

Finally, play with Ionic!

Comparison between Ionic Framework to Others Framework like PhoneGap

Ionic Framework-

Open source

 It’s Javascript, HTML and CSS

 Cordova is an engine which runs PhoneGap

UI Components is awesome

Application type: Hybrid

Supported Platforms- Android, IOS, Windows, BlackBerry

Enable features, such as push notifications, A/B testing, analytics, Code deploys and Automated builds.

PhoneGap-

Open source

It’s Javascript, HTML and CSS

Cordova is an engine which runs Ionic

Lack of pre-built UI widgets

Application type: Native

Supported Platforms- Apple IOS , Bada,  BlackBerry, Firefox OS, Google Android, LG webOS, Micresoft Windows Phone (7 and 8), Nokia Symbian OS, Tizen (SDK 2.x) and Ubuntu Touch.

Table of Contents

1. Why PyGame?

2. Why Not?

3. Explicit Is Better Than Implicit

4. Three Pain Points

5. Other Cool Libraries

6. More To Come

1 Why PyGame?

PyGame is a nice library for getting started with game development. It is a good way to learn programming in a "real programming language" while making games1. There is very "magic" going on in PyGame, and you can go from print("Hello World") to drawing a triangle on the screen and then to Pong or Tetris with a smooth learning curve.

PyGame is also an easy way to get your feet wet in game development if you know and use Python already, for example in machine learning or web development. That's how I came to learn PyGame.

https://nestack.com/services/outsource-python-development/

DJANGO:- There is support for Python 3.4 on Django, which was designed to leverage a lot of native Python rather than using third-party frameworks and libraries. Django makes use of controllers known as "Views", although it is an MVC framework. The Views controllers contain the logic that processes user requests and returning responses. Django uses an Object Relational Mapper, or ORM, to map objects to database tables. This is quite different from web2py which uses a Database Abstraction Layer, or DAL, to map objects to tables, queries, and records. The code works with various databases and improves portability between different types of databases. It works with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and SQLite, and other databases can be utilized with third-party drivers too. It's not a CMS like Joomla, WordPress, or Drupal. With Django, you do need to write code in order to create your website - although of course, this can be handled at the Nestack offshore development center. Popular and highly trafficked sites like Pinterest, Instagram, Disqus, and Mozilla all use Django. With the help of Django, you can build web applications up from a basic concept to a launch within just a few hours. It takes a lot of the effort out of web development, making it easier to create your app without fussing with a lot of confusion. Django is also open-source and free.

Super fast: Django is designed so that it helps developers bring their applications from concept to completion in the fastest possible way.

Fully loaded: Django comes with dozens of extras that can be used to take care of common web development needs. Django handles user authentication, site maps, content administration, RSS feeds, and so much more. It does all this directly out of the box.

Highly secure: Django is serious about security so it makes it easy for developers to bypass a lot of common mistakes they might make with security, for example cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, SQL injection, and clickjacking. The Django user authentication system makes it easy to securely manage your user accounts and passwords.

Totally scalable: Django is used by many of the world's most highly trafficked websites to provide fast, easy, and flexible scaling to meet changing traffic demands at the highest level.

Brilliantly versatile: Django is used by various organizations, businesses, and governments. They can build all manner of things, from social networks to scientific computing platforms to content management systems.

PYRAMID:- Pyramid helps to make it easier than ever to write web apps. Start from the basics with this "hello world" web app which is minimal and works on a request/response basis. This can take you a long way, particularly if you're still learning, but can also make it easy to write more advanced software as your application grows thanks to its range of helpful features. Pyramid can run in all supported versions of Python and comes with helpful installation instructions to help you get Pyramid ready to run. There is a handy tutorial to take you through the process of writing single file applications, forms, database integration, and authentication. Developers can go deeper into the narrative documentation or broad API reference which Pyramid includes. Pyramid also offers you a whole pool of useful resources to help you use it. Extending Pyramid functions as a filterable and well-organized group of packages, add-ons, and applications which work with Pyramid.

When You Need Pyramid: Megaframeworks make all of the decisions on your behalf. This can lead you to fight their decisions if your ideas don't fit their point of view. Microframeworks don't force any decisions, making it easy for you to get started. When your application grows, however, it's all up to you and you're on your own. Whichever you're using, the main focus is on the beginning of the process: there's either too much, or not enough. Whatever the case, it's hard to complete your project and keep it finished. It's best to use an end-focused framework with architecture that scales down to help you get started and then scales up as your application is growing. Pyramid was created with this in mind, as the Goldilocks frameworks - it's not too big, not too small, but just right. It's the Start Small, Finish Big, Stay Finished Framework.

TORNADO:- Tornado is an asynchronous networking library and Python web framework which was first developed at FriendFeed. Tornado is highly scalable up to thousands of open connections because it uses a non-blocking network I/O. This makes it an excellent framework for WebSockets, long polling, and various other applications which need long-lived connections to each user.

FLASK:- Flask is a Python-usable microframework that is based on Jinja 2 and Werkzeug.

WEB2PY:- Chicago-based Massimo Di Pierro, a Professor of Computer Science, is the lead developer of the Web2py platform. It offers fantastic documentation which includes a 600-age PDF giving an introduction to Python. It's an excellently complete platform. There are answers to everything in the web2py documentation so it's a great option if you're new to Python Web development. The security is built-in, giving you sets of generated forms with field validation. Sessions are stored on the server-side which means that there's no point in attempting to tamper with cookies. The database support includes built-in SQL generation that covers ten of the most popular databases as well as the Google App Engine. Web2py is based on the MVC architecture and generates html from code rather than messing with PHP embedded tags. You can use a complete free administrative interface as soon as you've defined your models. There isn't Python 3.x support just yet, although it is apparently in the works. However, it is still an excellent web framework if you're looking to outsource a project using Python 2.7.

(by an absolute beginner who spent a full day blundering around and somehow made a functioning chatbot. for @tiigre)

This is a guide on how to make a basic chatbot that functions like a Magic 8-ball i.e. picks a random response when called up on text chat. 

NOTE: This chatbot uses Python. This guide assumes you don’t have any programming experience, but to make the bot more complex you’ll have to read up on both Python and Discord’s Python API Documentation.

WHAT YOU NEED

- An admin user account on a computer with Windows.

- A Discord account which is an admin for a server (even a server purely for testing bots)