Software Engineering Perspectives Articles

Peter Grant

Updated on September 15, 2025

A lambda function in Python is an anonymous function defined with the lambda keyword. It can take any number of arguments but has only one expression, the result of which is automatically returned.

Murali Sastry

Updated on September 15, 2025

As vibe coding becomes common practice for developers, these best practices will help keep your products safe.

Liu Zuo Lin

Updated on September 12, 2025

In Python, the __new__ method creates and returns a new object of a class, while the __init__ method initializes the attributes of a newly created object of a class. Learn more about what each does and when to use which.

Dawn Kawamoto

Updated on September 10, 2025

A computer science degree teaches the theory and practice of computing, equipping graduates with skills to design software, manage data and pursue careers in programming, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data science and systems analysis.

Indhumathy Chelliah

Updated on September 08, 2025

Converting lists to dictionaries in Python is valuable to get the data in the form that you need. Here are 10 different ways to accomplish this.

Anthony Corbo

Updated on September 08, 2025

An API (application programming interface) is a set of rules that allows software applications to communicate and exchange data or functionality with each other.

Sarang Narkhede

Updated on September 05, 2025

An SDK (software development kit) is a bundled set of software tools, libraries and documentation that enables developers to build, test and deploy applications for a specific platform.

Kyle Brill

Updated on September 05, 2025

The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a framework for assessing and improving an organization’s software development processes through five defined levels of process maturity.

Kyle Brill

Updated on September 05, 2025

Cloud orchestration is the automated coordination of cloud infrastructure, services and tasks into unified workflows to streamline deployment, scaling and resource management.

Sara A. Metwalli

Updated on September 05, 2025

Flask is a lightweight, open-source Python web framework used to build web applications with minimal code and flexible architecture.