Ubuntu is a free computer system, like Windows or macOS, but it’s built by a community. It’s great for programmers because it’s very flexible and has lots of tools already built-in that help you code.

For the past few months, I've been covering different software packages for scientific computations. For my next several articles, I'm going to be focusing on using Python to come up with your own ...

So I'm not a programmer, I took a few classes ages ago, but there are some Python scripts in use on the servers here so I figured I'd start. What I'm trying to do is call an API and get a chunk of ...