To put it in simple words, IoT refers to things that are connected to the Internet. When we think about the internet, we usually visualize a computer, cell phone or tablet with a screen and a mechanical or virtual keyboard, a web browser such as Google Chrome, Safari or Firefox…

How Does Your Browser Find a Webpage? Let’s see what happens when you type “holbertonschool.com in your browser and press “Enter”. When we want to access a web page from our computers or from a mobile device, first we need to use a browser. A browser is a program like…

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Machine Learning (ML) is part of a bigger field in Computer Science called Artificial Intelligence (AI). There is no consensus on what human intelligence is so, what does intelligence mean when we are talking about machines? In 1950, Alan Turing, considered as the father of Artificial Intelligence and creator of the…

Every programming language has a different way of storing data. C, for example, requires that you explicitly declare a variable; i.e., you need to say what kind of information it is going to store before you use it for the first time. You need to say if it’s an…

Libraries and functions Good coding practices state a program should perform a single task very well. If you follow this rule, you are working in modules and you will be able to reuse this file in the future in a more complex program or to debug it more easily if…