PyBites Podcast: Episode #043 – Becoming a prolific Python content provider

This week, Mike Driscoll (author of this website), is on the PyBites Podcast. It’s titled Episode #043 – Becoming a prolific Python content provider You can listen to the podcast on PyBites. In the podcast, the hosts and I talk about: how Mike got into programming and Python (and the importance of community), how Mike […]

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Python 101 – How to Create a Graphical User Interface

When you first get started as a programmer or software developer, you usually start by writing code that prints to your console or standard out. A lot of students are also starting out by writing front-end programs, which are typically websites written with HTML, JavaScript and CSS. However, most beginners do not learn how to

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Python 101 – How to Generate a PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a very popular way to share documents across multiple platforms. The goal of the PDF is to create a document that will look the same on multiple platforms and that will print the same (or very similar) on various printers. The format was originally developed by Adobe but has

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Python 101 – Assignment Expressions

Assignment expressions were added to Python in version 3.8. The general idea is that an assignment expression allows you to assign to variables within an expression. The syntax for doing this is: NAME := expr This operator has been called the “walrus operator”, although their real name is “assignment expression”. Interestingly, the CPython internals also

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Python 101 – An Intro to Jupyter Notebook

The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain code, equations, visualizations, and formatted text. By default, Jupyter Notebook runs Python out of the box. Additionally, Jupyter Notebook supports many other programming languages via extensions. You can use the Jupyter Notebook for data cleaning and transformation,

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