Books that I’ve read, reviewed or cited for this article
Last month, I released a new book entitled Creating GUI Applications with wxPython. In celebration of a successful launch, I have decided to do a little contest. Rules Tweet about the contest and include my handle: @driscollis Send me a direct message on Twitter or via my contact form with a link to your Tweet […]
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I bought Practical Python and OpenCV a couple of years ago during one of its authors Kickstarters. I started reading it and then got busy with other things. The past couple of weeks, I decided to give the book another go and was able to finish it. Note that I started reading the 3rd edition
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This week we welcome Sean McManus (@musicandwords) as our PyDev of the Week! Sean is the author of several books, including Mission Python: Code a Space Adventure Game!, which was reviewed on this site in March. There are free chapters from his book available here. You can learn more about Sean on his website. Let’s
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My latest book, Creating GUI Applications with wxPython is now available for purchase. 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 widgets work in wxPython is valuable, it is even better
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In honor of PyCon 2019 that is starting this week, I am putting three of my books on sale. You can get any of the following books for $9.99 through May 6th by clicking on the links: Python 201: Intermediate Python ReportLab – PDF Processing with Python Jupyter Notebook 101 Python 201 is a fun
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Growing up, I have always found the universe and space in general to be exciting. It is fun to dream about what worlds remain unexplored. I also enjoy seeing photos from other worlds or thinking about the vastness of space. What does this have to do with Python though? Well, the National Aeronautics and Space
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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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