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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This week we welcome Younggun Kim (@scari_net) as our PyDev of the Week! Younggun has been on the board of directors for the Python Software Foundation and is the founder of PyCon Korea. He has translated several programming books into Korean. You can get the full list on his website. You can also check his
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A common UI element that you used to see a lot of was the Splash Screen. A splash screen is just a dialog with a logo or art on it that sometimes includes a message about how far along the application has loaded. Some developers use splash screens as a way to tell the user
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Learn the basics of using Python’s built-in debugger, pdb. Note that this screencast was recorded before Python 3.6 and 3.7 so it does not cover some of the new enhancements in the debugger. You can read the chapter this screencast is based on here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/chapter24_debugging.html
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This week we welcome Oliver Bestwalter (@obestwalter) as our PyDev of the Week! He is one of the core developers of the tox automation project and the pytest package. He is also a speaker at several Python related conferences. You can learn more about Oliver on his website or on Github. Let’s take a few
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Learn the basics of Python’s built-in XML modules, minidom and ElementTree. You can read the chapter this is based on here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/chapter23_xml.html or get the book from Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/python_101
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This week we welcome Aisha Bello (@AishaXBello) as our PyDev of the Week! Aisha is the founder of PyLadies Nigeria and is passionate about STEM in developing countries. She is also an organizer for DjangoGirls in Africa. Aisha has gone around the world speaking talking about Python at EuroPython, DjangoCon, Python Brasil and the PyData
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In this screencast you will learn the basics of Python’s datetime and time modules. If reading is more your thing, then check out the chapter this is based on over at http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or get the book at https://leanpub.com/python_101
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My latest book, Jupyter Notebook 101, is now available for Pre-Order on Leanpub. This book is scheduled to be finished by November 2018. Should you purchase this book, you will get it in PDF, ePub and mobi formats. Get it for $5 off as it is a part of my Fall sale which ends Sept.
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This week we welcome Manuel Kaufmann (@reydelhumo) as our PyDev of the Week. Manuel has been very active in promoting Python in South America and even received a grant a few years ago to help him in that regard from the Python Software Foundation. He started the Argentina en Python project and he also works
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It’s the start of a new school year, so I am running a new sale this Fall. Feel free to check out my current sales: ReportLab: PDF Processing in Python Python 201: Intermediate Python Python 101 Jupyter Noteboook 101 (Pre-order / Early Access) – Est. delivery November 2018 These sales will last until Sept. 1st.
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In this screencast, you will learn the basics of using Python’s threading module. If reading is more your thing, then check out the chapter this is based on over at http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or get the book at https://leanpub.com/python_101
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This week we welcome Jessica Ingrassellino (@jess_ingrass) as our PyDev of the Week. Jessica is the founder of teachcode.org, where you can schedule teaching classes with Jessica. She is also the author of Python Projects for Kids. Let’s take some time to get to know her better! Can you tell us a little about yourself
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Machine Learning, artificial intelligence and face recognition are big topics right now. So I thought it would be fun to see how easy it is to use Python to detect faces in photos. This article will focus on just detecting faces, not face recognition which is actually assigning a name to a face. The most
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I recently released a new book entitled ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python. In celebration of a successful launch, 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 by me The contest will run starting now
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