Python in education, from Kindergarten through college. The article will probably be about teaching Python.
Texas Instruments announced that they are adding a new graphing calculator called TI-84 Plus CE Python. The TI-84 Plus uses CircuitPython rather than the standard Python that most developers are aware of. CircuitPython is made by AdaFruit for embedded devices, like a calculator. You can read more about CircuitPython being added to the calculator over […]
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This week we welcome Patrick Loeber (@python_engineer) as our PyDev of the Week! Paticks runs a popular Python YouTube channel that covers Python basics, machine learning, and more! You can learn more about Patrick over on his website or support his work on Patreon. Let’s spend some time getting to know Patrick better! Can you
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No Starch Press is best known for creating books on computer programming. However they recently released a new product called Python Flash Cards by Eric Matthes, the author of Python Crash Course. I thought this was a unique product and decided to ask for a review copy. The cards and their box are high quality.
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I am putting my interactive Educative Python courses on Sale for PyCon this week. You can get Python 101 and Python 201: Intermediate Python for 50% off. Here are the coupon codes you can use: For Python 101 – au-pycon-py101 For Python 201 – au-pycon-py201 Educative is also doing a 50% off sale on their Python
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The Python programming language has several built-in types that it supports. One of my favorites is the dictionary. A dictionary is a mapping object maps hashable values to arbitrary objects (source). Other languages call dictionaries “hash tables”. They are mutable objects that you can change whenever you want to, unlike tuples. A dictionary’s keys must
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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 am happy to announce my first Udemy course on the Python programming language. It is called Python by Example and is a re-branding of my Python 101 Screencast series. I had originally hoped to keep the name, Python 101 on Udemy, but someone else had already taken it by the time I got my
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I get asked by publishers to review books from time to time. Last month, Packt asked me if I’d be willing to review for their book, Python Projects for Kids by Jessica Ingrassellino. Frankly I tend to avoid beginning Python books now because they tend to be very similar, but I thought this one might
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The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is used by many companies and organizations for sharing data. Python provides an File Transfer Protocol module in its standard library called ftplib that implements the client side of the FTP protocol. You can learn all about the File Transfer Protocol by reading the RFC 959 document on the Internet.
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One of the first items you learn as a beginner Python programmer is how to import other modules or packages. However, I’ve noticed that even people who have used Python casually for multiple years don’t always know how flexible Python’s importing infrastructure is. In this article, we will be looking at the following topics: Regular
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Webucator recently contacted me to let me know that they have finished up an Introduction to Python Training that they are allowing people to take for free for the month of February. The course is made up of videos, exercises, readings, and quizzes. You can get it free by using the following code when you
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No Starch Press recently sent me a book called Python Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer by Mahesh Venkitachalam to review. I don’t normally get books from that publisher so I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the book is quite good. But I won’t provide any spoilers here as we have a quick
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I was recently approached by the author of the free eBook, Intermediate Python by Muhammad Yasoob Ullah Khalid to review his work. Yasoob is the fellow behind the Python Tips blog. The book has been released as open source on Github but can be downloaded as a PDF from ReadTheDocs. But before I go into
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I am launching a back-to-school sale of my Python 101 course. You can get the Python 101 book now for 50% by using the following offer code: fall2015. This offer is good until September 15, 2015. You can also get my Python 101 Screencast for 50% off (i.e. $25 no offer code required). It includes
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The Python 101 Screencast is now available for Pre-Order. If you pre-order the screencast series, then you will receive what I currently have finished (12 videos + the eBook) and then receive updates as I add new ones. There will be a minimum of 44 videos. Upon purchase, you will be able to stream or
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