Jeremy Grifski articles - 94 total
Sample Programs Repo Celebrates 1,000 Code Snippets
It’s 2025, and we’re kicking off the year with some huge news! The Sample Programs repo has hit 1,000...
Support The Sample Programs Repo This Hacktoberfest
As of today, we’re a week into hacktoberfest, and I’m wondering: how is it going for you? Have you...
How to Get Better at Programming: Lessons from Blogging
Look, I can’t help but write articles in this series. Very rarely do I get a chance to brag about...
What Are Some Tech Questions You're Too Afraid to Ask?
I had an idea for a series of articles on concepts that people in tech assume are common knowledge bu...
How to Get Better at Programming: Lessons from Competitive Shooter Games
Alright, you caught me! I couldn’t help myself. Once I wrote that article about music and its relatio...
How to Get Better at Programming: Lessons From Music
Recently, I was writing an article about practice problems in Python when I started to go off on a ta...
Can We Fit Rock Paper Scissors in Python in a Tweet?
If you’ve followed me on this saga to shrink my original behemoth of a solution to Rock Paper Scissor...
Does Anyone Still Code Golf? The 280 Character Challenge
Awhile back, I had written a program to play Rock Paper Scissors in Python. It's a pretty simple prog...
The Sample Programs Repos Are Ready for Hacktoberfest 2020
This year, I decided to prepare for Hacktoberfest a bit early. In other words, you could say that the...
How to Add an Item to a List in Python: Append, Slice Assignment, and More
Lately, I’ve been thinking about new Python topics to write about, so I took to Google. When I search...
How to Check if a String Contains a Substring in Python: In, Index, and More
One concept that threw me for a loop when I first picked up Python was checking if a string contains...
How to Perform a Reverse Dictionary Lookup in Python: Generator Expressions and More
Welcome to yet another Python tutorial. Today, we’re taking a look at dictionaries and how we can per...
How to Performance Test Python Code: timeit, cProfile, and More
A lot of the articles in this series take advantage of a feature of Python which allows us to perform...
What Python Questions Are You Always Asking?
Over the last 2 years, I've been building up a list of answers to common Python questions:...
How to Approach Python From a Java Perspective
Right now I’m taking a break from sharing updates on the image-titler script and reflecting on teachi...
Make Python Social Again
I wanted to make this quick post to tip off some folks about a project I've been trying to get off th...
Create Perfectly Sized Cover Images for Dev.to
As a heads up, I'm making this post as a plug for my Image Titler tool that I've been developing in m...
How to Compare Strings in Python: Equality and Identity
Once again, we’re back with another Python topic. Today, we’ll talk about how to compare strings in P...
How to Complete a Programming Project From Scratch
Currently, I am in my last semester of teaching a second-year programming course on software componen...
8 Coolest Python Programming Language Features
After writing nearly 20 articles just about Python, I’ve decided to take some time to reflect on what...
71 Python Code Snippets for Everyday Problems
If this is your first time here, I'd like to encourage you to head over to the original post which i...
Reflecting on My Fourth Semester of Teaching
Welcome back to yet another teaching reflection. This time around, I’m sharing a reflection on my fou...
How to Improve Coding Comprehension Using Peer Instruction
This semester, I added a new teaching technique to my classroom, and I wanted to share it with the wo...
I Created a Portfolio Site
This semester, I’m taking a professional development course in the Engineering Education department....
Sample Programs 100 Article Release
In the midst of the craziness that is Hacktoberfest, we managed to hit that 100 article release. In t...
How to Nuke Your RSS Feed
If you’ve been subscribed to my newsletter for a little while, you may have noticed a few weeks where...
Python String Formatting Techniques
In an effort to build up a bit of a video collection, I finally got around to putting together a vide...
The Controversy Behind The Walrus Operator in Python
If you haven’t heard, Python 3.8 features a rather controversial new operator called the walrus opera...
8 Articles About Python Lists (+ 2 Videos)
One of my favorite data structures in Python is the list. Honestly, there's a lot to like about Pytho...
Help! Hacktoberfest Is Overwhelming
If you've followed me, you might know that I got into dev.to because I was looking for some help with...