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I thought it would be fun to write a bit about the cover art for my new book, Creating GUI Applications with wxPython. I had meant to post about that during the actual Kickstarter campaign. My original idea for the cover was to have the mouse directing a Phoenix to attack a snake. The Phoenix […]
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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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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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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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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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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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We are coming into the last week of the Kickstarter and I thought I would give you all a quick update. I finished writing up the chapter on creating a calculator today and got started on chapter 7. I also wanted to let you know what the current table of contents looks like right now:
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In this screencast, we will learn how to turn your Python code into a Windows executable file using the PyInstaller project. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
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I am pleased to announce my latest book project, Creating GUI Applications with wxPython which I am running a Kickstarter campaign for. Creating GUI Applications with wxPython is a book that will teach you how to use wxPython to create applications by actually creating several mini-programs. I have found that while learning how the various
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In this screencast, we will learn how to turn your Python code into a Windows executable file using the bbfreeze project. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub Related Reading A bbfreeze Tutorial – Build a Binary Series!
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This week I am putting my 2 most recent self-published books on Sale starting today through November 26th. ReportLab – PDF Processing with Python is available for $9.99: Leanpub Gumroad – Use offer code black18 JupyterLab 101 is available for $9.99: Leanpub Gumroad – Use offer code black18 You can also get my book, wxPython
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In this screencast, I introduce the popular requests package, which is a replacement for Python’s urllib. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
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My latest book, Jupyter Notebook 101 is now officially released. You can purchase it at the following retailers: Amazon (Kindle or Paperback) Leanpub (mobi, epub and PDF) on sale for $9.99 until the end of November Gumroad (mobi, epub and PDF) You can also download a sample of the book from Leanpub. Get it for
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I recently had the opportunity to get my second book, Python 201: Intermediate Python added to a bundle of other interesting programming books. It is called The Ultimate Programmer Super Stack and it is is a hand-curated collection of 25+ premium ecourses, bestselling ebooks, and bonus resources that will help new programmers: Learn a
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