I am a lonely Python/C++ coder with a background in financial markets and an interest in modern art. I am an application-driven guy, not a computer scientist. Sure I have many gaps in my knowledge, but I strive to do my best to fill them. I keep learning new things, listening to smart guys, correcting my mistakes, and pushing myself to the limits. I enjoy it.
I will use this website both as a blog and as a hub to some of my projects. It is written from scratch in Python's Flask, my favourite web-framework.
Often there might be a need to calculate how many times each element from a particular collection appears in that collection. For example, having a string, we might want to how many times each letter appears, or how many times each word...
Imagine a simple task. You have a bunch of values, for example, strings (but it can be any other object, int, float, whatever..) and you a have a bunch of functions, (more generally callables, so it can be a functor, lambda.. etc.) and you...