Books that I’ve read, reviewed or cited for this article
Have you ever wondered how to create PDF Reports programmatically? If so, then this is the book for you! In ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python, you will learn how to generate PDFs using the popular Python programming language. The code in this book will run on all 3 major platforms: Windows Mac Linux ReportLab is used […]
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I recently had my self-published book, “wxPython Cookbook” picked up by Apress and republished as wxPython Recipes. Since they gave me a few complimentary paperback copies, I have decided to do a little contest. Rules Post a comment telling me why you would want a copy The most clever or heartfelt commenter will be chosen
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A couple of months ago, Brian Okken asked me if I would be interested in reading his book, Python Testing with pytest. I have been interested in learning more about the pytest package for a while, so I agreed to take a look. I also liked that the publisher was The Pragmatic Programmers, which I’ve
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It’s that time of year again where the holidays are upon us, so I am doing a sale of some of my works. You can get Python 101 for FREE and Python 201: Intermediate Python for 50% off. Here are the coupon codes you can use: For Python 101 – au-py101-free For Python 201 –
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It’s time for school and going back to the university, so I am putting on a “Back to School” sale for my Python books. You can now buy my second and third books for 50% off on Leanpub. Python 201: Intermediate Python wxPython Cookbook You can check out my first book, Python 101, in its
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After making my first book, Python 101, freely available, I have been investigating the best way to make its contents available online as well. Since I write all my books in RestructuredText, I had a few options. I ended up going with Sphinx for now, but I may end up switching to something else in
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Packt Publishing approached me about being a technical reviewer for the book, Software Architecture with Python by Anand Balachandran Pillai. It sounded pretty interesting so I ended up doing the review for Packt. They ended up releasing the book in April 2017. Quick Review Why I picked it up: Packt Publishing asked me to do
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Python gives the developer several tools for working with dates and time. In this article, we will be looking at the datetime and time modules. We will study how they work and some common uses for them. Let’s start with the datetime module! The datetime Module We will be learning about the following classes from
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Python has some powerful features that allow you to introspect your code or the code of others. I created the following video tutorial to help you learn how that works. This tutorial is from the Python 101 Screencast Related Articles Python 101: Introspection
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My second book, Python 201: Intermediate Python, was just released as an online course over at Educative. I also have Python 101 on there as well. Educative is a pretty new educational website. It’s kind of like Code Academy except that they usually charge for access to all their courses. Note: This is NOT a
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This week we welcome Dan Bader (@dbader_org) as our PyDev of the Week. Dan does a weekly Python Tricks newsletter / blog that’s a fun read. He has also authored a Python Tricks book. I always like checking out my interviewee’s Github page to see what they enjoy coding or writing about, so I encourage
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I review books for the i-programmer website from time to time and they recently gave me a copy of Murach’s Python Programming by Michael Urban and Joel Murach. This book is long at almost 600 pages and it’s pretty expensive for the paperback. For those of you with short attention spans, I give you the
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After the amazing response I had when I made Python 101 free for a few days a couple of months ago (see here, I have decided to make it free (or Pay What You Want) permanently on Leanpub (PDF, mobi and epub): https://leanpub.com/python_101 Note: I am still selling it on Amazon, Gumroad and Lulu Now
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My first book, Python 101, has been made into an online course on the educative website. Educative is kind of like Code Academy in that you can run the code snippets from the book to see what kind of output they produce. You can edit the examples that are executable, but you cannot save your
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I always put a lot of thought into the covers of my book. For my first book on wxPython, I thought it would be fun to do a cookbook because I already had a lot of recipes on my blog. So I went with the idea of doing a cookbook. For the cover, my first
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