"We are not here to massage your feelings"... this is one of the best things heard at a university protest. A number of strikes have been prevalent  at South African institutions and have disrupted academic calendars. When 2020 started, no doubt - some students did expect some protests at their institutions but never did anyone anticipate the havoc caused by Covid-19. Student life might never be the same again, Covid-19 is likely to stick around for some time.  Geekulcha calls on its student leaders in 2021 to increase efforts in supporting students on campus navigate, achieve great ..read more

Overview In computer science we have items called variables, so what are variables? Simply put a variable is something that stores information and can be referenced and manipulated, we can compare it to a shipping container. Containers store items that can be changed and modified, hence variables are like shipping containers for the programmer that store information to be referenced and manipulated. Each variable has a type name and information stored inside it, the name is like a label for the variable. Variables To assign a value to a variable we use the = symbol When naming our variables ..read more

In Python textual data is represented and stored as strings. Strings are created with either single or double-quotes, both will be accepted in Python, but as a preference, I will be using double-quotes. Remember we create a variable, then assign a string value using the (=) sign. We also have triple quotes, that we use for formatting a long string such as sentences and paragraphs. String Indexing In Python like other programming languages, strings are indexed at 0. First let’s determine the length of a string. If we want to know how many characters we have in a string we use the len func ..read more

Think of it this way, we have our less than intelligent friends called computers that can do nothing without been given instructions. Hence programming is an attempt to get a computer to carry out specific tasks without making mistakes, a perfect example is an ATM transaction, we want the ATM to give out money, check balances, take in money and print out input to the user. A person who gives out these instructions is known as a programmer, as a programmer, your superpower is to make “dumb” computers seem smart and carry out sophisticated tasks. It is important to note  that programming i ..read more

Meet Lepsta, a version control tool and code syncing service built with the core purpose of helping software teams collaborate. Now if you’re familiar with version control tools such as GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab and the likes thereof you may be wondering how Lepsta is different? In this blog article I will give you a brief introduction to Lepsta and it’s unique functionality. The question proposed above can be answered quite simply: Lepsta is a version control tool like the rest which means that you can create, clone and make changes to a code repository as you normally would. The key differe ..read more

There are an estimated 700 programming languages, and Python is the fastest-growing programming language, so what is Python, What is behind it’s popularity and why should you learn it? What Is Python? Biology has its definition of Python and we the computer scientists have ours. Python is a general-purpose programming language that is beginner-friendly due to its easy syntax. Created in 1989 by computer scientist Guido Van Rossum who wanted a programming language that was beautiful to look at and easy to read. Why Is Python So Popular Python uses indentation instead of curly brackets to repre ..read more

It's the end of the year and it has been a long one for all of us, under the circumstances. Nonetheless, some exciting things happened in between for us. We welcomed new members into our team and one of them was Lisette Mukeba who happened to be our 100th appointment in the past 7 years of  Geekulcha. Meet Lisette Mukeba I am Lisette Mukeba - a System Developer at Geekulcha. Well, there is more to it. After completing my matric in 2016, I had no plans of throwing myself into technology. My focus was mostly on science. Regardless, I always had talks with friends about how technology is po ..read more

From time to time, skills shortage in South Africa is deemed as a national crisis and one does one how the next breed of problem solvers will look like. The country is finding its feet in the 4th Industrial Revolution to create a livable and inclusive society in the smart growing world. The ICT youth organization believes that it is by taking care of the basics that the country can achieve its digital desires. It says that there is a need to build a strong digital culture, involving everyone in the digital transformation process, accelerated service delivery in all fronts, coordinated effort ..read more

It's a start of a new decade, new possibilities arise - will Africa take a greater stand in this decade? New Geeks are born and take on a Digital Mission to change our world as we know it. Geekulcha has set a focus on 'Enterprising Mankind: Social, Civic and Inclusive'. While  celebrating Human Excellence, there will be more efforts are being ignited towards a more sustainable Geek Culture. Meet Gabriel Cassim So who is Gabriel? Well that’s a trick question. Usually when people ask me this I just tell them that I am a full-stack Javascript developer. There’s a lot more to the story thoug ..read more

It's a start of a new decade, new possibilities arise - will Africa take a greater stand in this decade? New Geeks are born and take on a Digital Mission to change our world as we know it. Geekulcha has set a focus on 'Enterprising Mankind: Social, Civic and Inclusive'. While  celebrating Human Excellence, there will be more efforts are being ignited towards a more sustainable Geek Culture. Meet Fikile Mlangeni I am Fikile Mlangeni, founder of FikileM Advertising Agency. I am a Digital Content creator, a marketer and happy to officially intern with Geekulcha as their Digital Officer. Bri ..read more