When I read the description for day 3 od the Advent of Code, I thought it was asking me to create some kind of pathfinding algorithm. The idea behind this challenge is to figure out how many trees you will hit while skiing down a grid. You should go check out the description so that […]
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This week we welcome Shauna Gordon-McKeon as our PyDev of the Week! Shauna runs her own consulting business, Galaxy Rise Consulting and is a Django enthusiast. She has also spoken at several Python conferences! If this interview isn’t enough for you, you can learn more about Shauna over on the Django Girls blog. Let’s spend
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Day 2 of Advent of Code 2020 is about validating passwords. It gives you a series of password policies and passwords and then asks you to determine how many of those passwords are valid. For this challenge, I opted to use no Python libraries and just do text parsing. !!! SPOILERS AHEAD !!! You should
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I decided to give the Advent of Code challenge a try this year. Advent of Code is a series of challenges that are given once a day. You can solve them in any programming language that you want. Once you have the solution, you enter it on the website to earn points. In this year’s
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This week we welcome Mridu Bhatnagar (@Mridu__) as our PyDev of the Week! Mridu enjoys giving tech talks. She recently started a Youtube channel and a blog on Python and other tech topics. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Mridu better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
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Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals came early this year. From now until December 1st, all my books are on sale on Leanpub using the special links below. Check them out and learn something new Python today! Python 101: 2nd Edition – 25% Off on Leanpub Python 201: Intermediate Python – 30% off on Leanpub
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Manning Publications recently contacted me to let me know that they had some new Python videos going up on their YouTube channel. Carl Osipov – author of Cloud Native Machine Learning. He created a session on automatic differentiation used by PyTorch autograd for deep learning: Jonathan Rioux – author of Data Analysis with Python and
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This week we welcome Reuven Lerner (@reuvenmlerner) as our PyDev of the Week. Reuven is a trainer who teaches Python and data science all over the world. You can find out more on his website. Reuven also has a newsletter on becoming a better developer that you might enjoy. Reuven also has the following resources
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In this video tutorial, you will learn all about using ReportLab’s textobject for manipulating and formatting text on the canvas. If you prefer to learn in a written tutorial, you can check out my this other tutorial of mine, ReportLab 101: The textobject Buy the ReportLab Book You can get an entire book on ReportLab
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This week we welcome Max Humber (@maxhumber) as our PyDev of the Week! Max is the creator of gazpacho, a “simple, fast, and modern web scraping library” written in Python. Max is also an instructor at O’Reilly media. You can see what other projects Max is working on over on Github. Let’s take a few
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Guido van Rossum announced yesterday that he is coming out of retirement to join Microsoft’s Developer Division: Reddit’s community’s have mixed reactions to the news. Personally, I hope it will be a positive thing. While I had hoped that Guido would get Python into Android development when he was Google and that didn’t happen, I
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This week we welcome Mary Chester-Kadwell (@marycktech) as our PyDev of the Week! Mary is a software engineer at Cambridge University Library. You can see some of what she’s up to over on Github. I think you’ll find her journey into Python really interesting. So without further ado, let’s find out more about Mary! Can
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The business world uses Microsoft Office. Their spreadsheet software solution, Microsoft Excel, is especially popular. Excel is used to store tabular data, create reports, graph trends, and much more. Before diving into working with Excel with Python, let’s clarify some special terminology: Spreadsheet or Workbook – The file itself (.xls or .xlsx). Worksheet or Sheet
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This week we welcome Kevin Thomas (@mytechnotalent) as our PyDev of the Week. Kevin is the author of Python for Kids, which is “a comprehensive and FREE Online Python Development course FOR KIDS utilizing an official BBC micro:bit Development Board”. Let’s spend some time getting to know Kevin better! Can you tell us a little
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This week we welcome William Horton (@hortonhearsafoo) as our PyDev of the Week! William is a Senior Software Engineer at Compass and has spoken at several local Python conferences. He is a contributor to PyTorch and fastai. Let’s spend some time getting to know William better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies,
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