As many of you know, I relaunched my crowdfunding campaign for turning my book, Python 101, into a series of screencasts. I put together Episode #4 over the weekend. It’s about Python’s if statement. It ended up a bit longer than I expected, but I thought it went pretty well overall:
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I’ve finally gotten the Python 101 Screencast campaign relaunched. However I have switched to IndieGogo for the here: http://igg.me/p/python-101-screencast/x/2068547 The reason for the switch is that they have lower fees and they also allow more types of payment. I always seem to get backers who can’t back my project because Kickstarter doesn’t support their payment
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My second Kickstarter campaign is coming to an end in less than 2 days! I still haven’t met my goal, but I know I could still make it. In the mean time, I created episode #3, which is a screencast about Python’s lists, tuples and dictionaries. You can check it out here: Be sure to
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Yesterday I put together another demo of Python 101, the Screencast. This one is based on the first chapter of my book, which covers the basics of IDLE, Python’s built-in development environment. You can check out the video below: The Kickstarter campaign for the screencast series has one more week to go. You can check
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My latest project is turning my book, Python 101, into a Screencast. I have started a Kickstarter to raise funds to help in this endeavor. You can check it out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/34257246/the-python-101-screencast The basic idea is to take each chapter of the book and turn it into a screencast. There are 44 chapters currently that
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I am currently working on another Kickstarter campaign to turn my book, Python 101 into a video series. I am planning on launching this project on Wednesday, March 25th. There are 44 chapters in my book, so I’ll be creating a minimum of 44 screencast videos. Here is what is currently covered in the book
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Over the weekend, I finished setting up a website for my upcoming book, Python 101. I discovered that www.python101.com is owned by squatters, so I got www.python101.org instead. It will redirect to http://python101.pythonlibrary.org because I think the book should be a part of Python Library while maintaining its independence. There isn’t much content on the
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Python decorators are really cool, but they can be a little hard to understand at first. A decorator in Python is a function that accepts another function as an argument. The decorator will usually modify or enhance the function it accepted and return the modified function. This means that when you call a decorated function,
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It’s time for another update! I want to apologize for not writing sooner, but I’ve been without  internet for several days and I’m writing this from my phone. I just wanted to let you all know that I’m planning to finish part two this week. I’ve had some people ask if I plan to release
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Python has a vast library of modules that are included with its distribution. The csv module gives the Python programmer the ability to parse CSV (Comma Separated Values) files. A CSV file is a human readable text file where each line has a number of fields, separated by commas or some other delimiter. You can
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I’m sure some of you have been wondering if I had a more concrete outline of the book that I am currently writing. As a matter of fact, I do. Here’s what I have so far: Part One: Learning the Basics Chapter 1 – IDLE Chapter 2 – Strings Chapter 3 – Lists, Tuples and
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My readers have been asking me to write a book for a few years now and I’ve finally decided to bite the bullet and give it a go. For my first book, I decided to write something that’s for beginners and intermediate programmers. There will be four parts to the book with the first part
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Python’s logging module has lots of options. In this article, we will looks at the logging module’s ability to create Rotating Logs. Python supports two types of rotating logs: Rotate logs based on size (RotatingFileHandler) Rotate the logs based on some time interval (TimedRotatingFileHandler) Let’s spend some time learning how each of these two types
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This topic is actually more complicated then it first appears. In this article, we’ll spend a little time looking at this problem and some of the solutions.
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Configuration files are used by both users and programmers. They are usually used for storing your applications settings or even your operating system’s settings. Python’s core library includes a module called ConfigParser that you can use for creating and interacting with configuration files. We’ll spend a few minutes learning how it works in this article.
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