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Gaston C. Hillar
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Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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  1. Marshmallow is:

    1. A lightweight library for converting complex datatypes to and from native Python datatypes.

    2. An ORM .

    3. A lightweight web framework that replaces Flask.

  2. SQLAlchemy is:

    1. A lightweight library for converting complex datatypes to and from native Python datatypes.

    2. An ORM .

    3. A lightweight web framework that replaces Flask.

  3. The marshmallow.pre_load decorator:

    1. Registers a method to run after any instance of the MessageSchema class is created.

    2. Registers a method to invoke after serializing an object.

    3. Registers a method to invoke before deserializing an object.

  4. The dump method for any instance of a Schema subclass:

    1. Routes URLs to Python primitives.

    2. Persists the instance or collection of instances passed as an argument to the database.

    3. Takes the instance or collection of instances passed as an argument and applies the field filtering and output formatting specified in the Schema subclass to the instance or collection of instances.

  5. When we declare an attribute as an instance...

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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
Read more about Gaston C. Hillar