UPDATE: All copies of the book have now been claimed! Thanks for checking it out! Pearson recently contacted me about doing a giveaway of their new Python book, Python for Programmers: with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Case Studies I have 5 copies of the eBook to giveaway. All you need to do to claim […]
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This week we welcome Miro HronÄok (@hroncok) as our PyDev of the Week! Miro teaches at Czech Technical University and helps out with the local PyLadies chapter. He is also involved with the Special Interest Group for Python in Fedora as he works for Red Hat in addition to his teaching position. You can check
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A couple of months ago, No Starch Press asked me if I would be interested in reading one of their new books called Mission Python: Code a Space Adventure Game! by Sean McManus. I enjoy reading new tech books, but it’s hard to work them in when I’ve been so busy this past year. However
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Let’s say you finished up a wonderful GUI application using wxPython. How do you share it with the world? This is always the dilemma when you finish an amazing program. Fortunately, there are several ways you can share your code. If you want to share your code with other developers, than Github or a similar
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This week we welcome Bruno Rocha (@rochacbruno) as our PyDev of the Week! Bruno works for Red Hat and participates in the Python, Flask and Rust communities. You can see some of his projects over on Github or check out some of his writings on Medium. Let’s take a few moments to get to know
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This week we welcome Maria Khalusova ( @mariakhalusova) as our PyDev of the Week! Maria works for JetBrains and will be speaking at AnacondaCON this April. If you’d like to catch up with her, you can check out Maria’s blog. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Maria better! Can you tell us
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No Starch Press asked me to do a technical review of one of their upcoming books, Serious Python: Black-Belt Advice on Deployment, Scalability, Testing, and More by Julien Danjou last year. I had never worked with No Starch before, but decided to give them a try and see how they differed from Packt Publishing. I
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This week we welcome Mariusz Felisiak (@MariuszFelisiak) as our PyDev of the Week! Mariusz is a core developer of the Django web framework and a maintainer of the django-request package. You can follow Mariusz over on Github to see what he’s been up to. Let’s spend some time getting to know Mariusz! Can you tell
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I personally really love self-publishing or Indy Publishing, so I am a little biased. In this article, I will go over what I think are the pros and cons of Indy Publishing versus going with a “real” publisher. Pros Here are my favorite parts about indy publishing: I control the release date I control the
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I get asked questions about my book writing process from time to time and I have been meaning to write about this topic for a while. The main reason I wrote my first book, Python 101, was because of the readers on my blog. They had been encouraging me to write a book on wxPython
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This week we welcome Lilly Ryan (@attacus_au) as our PyDev of the Week! Lilly is a pen-tester. She is an organizer of PyCon AU 2018 and 2019 and an experienced speaker. In fact, Lilly will be giving a keynote at DjangoCon Europe later this year. You can learn more about Lilly by visiting her website.
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This week we welcome Maria McKinley (@twiteness) as our PyDev of the Week. Maria is a Senior Software Engineer at the Walt Disney Company and will be a speaker at PyCascades 2019. She is also teaching the Python Certificate Program at the University of Washington Continuing Education. You can read more about her on her
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A lot of beginner tutorials start with “Hello World” examples. There are plenty of websites that use a calculator application as a kind of “Hello World” for GUI beginners. Calculators are a good way to learn because they have a set of widgets that you need to lay out in an orderly fashion. They also
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My latest book, Create GUI Applications with wxPython, is coming along nicely. I just wanted to let my readership know that the Kickstarter for it is coming to a close in a little less than 2 days. If you’d like to get a copy at a cheaper price than it will be when it is
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This week we welcome Paolo Melchiorre (@pauloxnet)as our PyDev of the Week! Paolo is a core developer of the Django web framework. He has spoken at several different Python-related conferences in Europe and also writes over on his blog. Let’s take a few minutes to get to know him better! Can you tell us a
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