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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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In this screencast, you will learn the basics of using the popular lxml (https://lxml.de/) package for parsing XML. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
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In this screencast we will learn how to install 3rd party modules and packages using easy_install, pip and from source. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
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The more you do programming, the more you will here about how you should test your code. You will hear about things like Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development (TDD). These are great ways to create quality code. But how does testing fit in with Jupyter? Frankly, it really doesn’t. If you want to test
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In this episode, you will learn the basics of using Python’s doctest and unittest modules. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub Related Articles Python 3 Testing: An Intro to unittest Python 102: An Intro to TDD and unittest
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When working with Jupyter Notebook, you will find yourself needing to distribute your Notebook as something other than a Notebook file. The most likely reason is that you want to share the content of your Notebook to non-technical users that don’t want to install Python or the other dependencies necessary to use your Notebook. The
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In this screencast you will learn the basics of profiling your code using Python’s built-in cProfile module. You can read the chapter this screencast is based on here – http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or get a copy of the book on Leanpub.
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In this screencast you will learn how to use lambdas in Python. You can read the chapter this screencast is based on here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or purchase the book on Leanpub Related Articles Python 101: Lambda Basics The Python Lambda
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In this episode, you will learn the basics of Python decorators and what the are good for. You can read the chapter this screencast is based on here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or purchase the book on Leanpub You can also read about decorators in a couple of other articles on my blog: Python: All About Decorators Python
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I don’t usually write about my book writing while the book is in progress on my blog, but I know some readers probably wonder why there are times where I am not writing blog posts as regularly as I usually do. The reason is usually because I am deep into writing chapters for a book
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