About

My name is Mike Driscoll. (@driscollis) I am a computer programmer by trade and use Python almost exclusively to make my living. .

You can support this site by purchasing one of my books:

• Python 101 (Print or eBook)
• Python 201: Intermediate Python (Print or eBook)
• wxPython Recipes (Print or eBook)
• Python Interviews (Print or eBook)
• ReportLab: PDF Processing in Python (eBook)
• Jupyter Notebook 101 (Print or eBook)
• Creating GUI Applications with wxPython (Print or eBook)
• Pillow: Image Processing with Python (Print or eBook)

I also have some MouseVsPython shirts here.

If you’d like to translate this blog or use the code, feel free. Just follow the license.

About Mike

I have been using Python since April 2006. I used to blog for the Python Software Foundation from time to time. Other than blogging, I enjoy engaging in Christian apologetics, read novels, listen to a wide variety of music and learn photography.

Some of my blog articles are getting syndicated over at DZone and I have also done some Python book reviews for I Programmer.

I founded Iowa’s local Python user group, Pyowa, which meets once a month.

I have been a technical reviewer for Packt Publishing since late 2009. A technical reviewer is supposed to look at the book’s structure and check for technical issues rather than grammatical issues. I do both as I want the books to be the best they can be. It’s an unpaid position, but I get a copy of the book I edited and a copy of any book from their library that I want. Here is an incomplete list of the books that I have reviewed for Packt:

• Python 3 Object Oriented Programming by Dusty Phillips
• Python 2.6 Graphics Cookbook by Mike Ohlson de Fine
• Python 3 Cryptography and Application Security Cookbook by Geremy Condra (This book was canceled by the publisher)
• Python Web Development 3 Beginner’s Guide by Michel Anders (I don’t really recommend this book as it’s mostly jQuery UI, NOT Python!)
• Building Machine Learning Systems with Python by Willi Richert and Luis Pedro Coelho
• Tkinter GUI Application Development by Bhaskar Chaudhary

I am the co-author of the original The Essential Core Python Cheat Sheet for DZone. You can get it here: http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/core-python

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Interviews

• June 2014 – I was featured as Dev of the Week on DZone.
• July 2018 – Podcast.__init__ interview
• Aug 2018 – First community interview on Real Python
• Mar 2019 – People at the Forefront of Coding Education – Part 1 | Q&A with Mike Driscoll, an author of Python tutorial books, and Chris Ching, a founder of coding school, CodeWithChris
• Aug 2019 – Profitable Python Episode: Put Your Family First
• Oct 2021 – 10 Minutes of Killer Python Inspiration With Influencer Mike Driscoll (Vonage)

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Podcasts

• March 2017 – An Interview with Mike Driscoll, Author of Python 101 (Leanpub Podcast)
• Mar 2018 – Talk Python – Episode #156: Python History and Perspectives
• July 2018 – Podcast.__init__ – Mike Driscoll And His Career In Python – Episode 169
• Sept 2019 – Lucid Programming Podcast – Writing Books About Python
• July 2020 – Real Python Podcast – Episode 20: Building PDFs in Python with ReportLab
• Jan 2021 – Real Python Podcast – Episode 45: Processing Images in Python With Pillow
• May 2021 – Teaching Python Episode #66 – Designing Projects with Python Libraries
• July 2021 – Talk Python – Episode #326: Building Desktop Apps with wxPython
• Oct 2021 – PyBites podcast #043 – Becoming a prolific Python content provider

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Webinars / Livestreams

• May 2022 – PyCharm YouTube Channel – The Functools Module

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Talks

• Coding Nomads – Jupyter Notebook 101 with Mike Driscoll
• Jan 9, 2022 – SFPython Meetup – How to Create GUIs with PySimpleGUI
• March 26, 2022 – BangPypers (Bangalore Python users group – Automating Excel with Python
• Mar 30, 2022 – University College London – Automating Excel with Python
• April 6, 2022 – Pythonrude (Germany) – An Intro to Testing with Python
• May 26, 2022 – Jetbrains Webinar – The Functools Module
• July 2022 – Python Aberdeen (UK) – Creating GUIs with PySimpleGUI
• July 2022 – NebraskaCode – Automating Excel with Python

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My Code

Code from my blog and my books can be found on Github.

I also started the following open source projects:

• MediaLocker – A simple application for storing your media using wxPython and SQLAlchemy
• Boomslang – A simple XML Editor written in wxPython