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Object Oriented Programming with Modern Python

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Created by Andy Bek 26.5 hours on-demand video course Welcome to the best resource online and the only one you need to learn and master object-oriented programming with python! There has never been a better time to learn python. It is consistently ranked in the top 3 most in-demand and most-loved programming languages in the world, with applications in machine learning, web development, data science, automation, game development, and much more. And its growth shows no signs of stopping. But while there are plenty of resources to learn the basics of python, it is quite difficult to move past those to the intermediate and advanced facets of the language. This course seeks to address that.


Inheritance In Python

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There is no object-oriented programming language that would be qualified to take a gander at or use, on the off chance that it didn't uphold inheritance. Inheritance was concocted in 1969 for Simula. Python upholds inheritance as well as multiple inheritances also. As a rule, inheritance is the component of getting new classes from existing ones. By doing this, we get a pecking order of classes.


How to Create Classes and Subclasses in Python Using super().__init__ Function.

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One common point of confusion with many students starting with Object-oriented programming (OOP) would be how to write the __init__ functions within subclasses. This article attempts to make this concept as simple as possible using a couple of shapes. Given these 4 shapes, we will be dealing with 5 classes -- Shape, Rectangle, Square, Triangle and EquilateralTriangle. Here, the Shape class is the parent class. To keep things simple, let's just create 1 attribute num_corners.


IFR-Explore: Learning Inter-object Functional Relationships in 3D Indoor Scenes

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Building embodied intelligent agents that can interact with 3D indoor environments has received increasing research attention in recent years. While most works focus on single-object or agent-object visual functionality and affordances, our work proposes to study a new kind of visual relationship that is also important to perceive and model -- inter-object functional relationships (e.g., a switch on the wall turns on or off the light, a remote control operates the TV). Humans often spend little or no effort to infer these relationships, even when entering a new room, by using our strong prior knowledge (e.g., we know that buttons control electrical devices) or using only a few exploratory interactions in cases of uncertainty (e.g., multiple switches and lights in the same room). In this paper, we take the first step in building AI system learning inter-object functional relationships in 3D indoor environments with key technical contributions of modeling prior knowledge by training over large-scale scenes and designing interactive policies for effectively exploring the training scenes and quickly adapting to novel test scenes. We create a new benchmark based on the AI2Thor and PartNet datasets and perform extensive experiments that prove the effectiveness of our proposed method. Results show that our model successfully learns priors and fast-interactive-adaptation strategies for exploring inter-object functional relationships in complex 3D scenes. Several ablation studies further validate the usefulness of each proposed module.


Human Hands as Probes for Interactive Object Understanding

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Interactive object understanding, or what we can do to objects and how is a long-standing goal of computer vision. In this paper, we tackle this problem through observation of human hands in in-the-wild egocentric videos. We demonstrate that observation of what human hands interact with and how can provide both the relevant data and the necessary supervision. Attending to hands, readily localizes and stabilizes active objects for learning and reveals places where interactions with objects occur. Analyzing the hands shows what we can do to objects and how. We apply these basic principles on the EPIC-KITCHENS dataset, and successfully learn state-sensitive features, and object affordances (regions of interaction and afforded grasps), purely by observing hands in egocentric videos.


RegionCLIP: Region-based Language-Image Pretraining

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) using image-text pairs has achieved impressive results on image classification in both zero-shot and transfer learning settings. However, we show that directly applying such models to recognize image regions for object detection leads to poor performance due to a domain shift: CLIP was trained to match an image as a whole to a text description, without capturing the fine-grained alignment between image regions and text spans. To mitigate this issue, we propose a new method called RegionCLIP that significantly extends CLIP to learn region-level visual representations, thus enabling fine-grained alignment between image regions and textual concepts. Our method leverages a CLIP model to match image regions with template captions and then pretrains our model to align these region-text pairs in the feature space. When transferring our pretrained model to the open-vocabulary object detection tasks, our method significantly outperforms the state of the art by 3.8 AP50 and 2.2 AP for novel categories on COCO and LVIS datasets, respectively. Moreoever, the learned region representations support zero-shot inference for object detection, showing promising results on both COCO and LVIS datasets. Our code is available at https://github.com/microsoft/RegionCLIP.


10 Python Code Snippets For Everyday Programming Problems - GeeksforGeeks

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In recent years, the Python programming language has seen a huge user base. One of the reasons could be that it is easier to learn as compared to other object-oriented programming languages like Java, C, C#, JavaScript, and therefore more and more beginners who are entering the field of computer science are opting for Python. Another reason why the popularity of Python has shot up is that it is used in almost all domains of the IT industry, be it data science, machine learning, automation, web scraping, artificial intelligence, cyber-security, cloud computing, and what not! According to the recent developer survey, it is seen that Python is currently the second most loved programming language after JavaScript and will easily shoot up in the coming years. Demand for Python developers has significantly risen, especially in the past few months, and therefore learning Python could get you some really good career options.


C# Developer - Windows Forms

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C# (pronounced "See Sharp") is a modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language. C# enables developers to build many types of secure and robust applications that run in .NET. C# has its roots in the C family of languages and will be immediately familiar to C, C, Java, and JavaScript programmers. C# is an object-oriented, component-oriented programming language. C# provides language constructs to directly support these concepts, making C# a natural language in which to create and use software components.



Single Responsibility Principle

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SOLID is a mnemonic acronym named by Robert C. Martin used in Software Programming, It represents 5 principles of Object-Oriented Programming. All of them are broadly used and worth knowing. But in this post, I will focus on the first one: the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP). One class should only serve one purpose, this does not imply that each class should have only one method but they should all relate directly to the responsibility of the class. All the functions, methods, and properties should all work towards the same goal.