In this screencast, we will learn the basics of how to create our own module or package.
You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
This week we welcome Erika Fille Legara (@eflegara) as our PyDev of the Week. Erika is a professor and program director at the Asian Institute of Management. She has spoken at PyCon Philippines. You can check out her website to see what else she has been up to or watch her talk below:
Let’s take a few moments to get to know her better!
Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
Hi, I’m Erika. I am a physicist by training. I am your typical grad school (assoc.) professor/administrator who’s always trying her best to strike the appropriate balance between teaching, research, and fulfilling certain administrative duties. At the moment, the research projects I am engage in are mostly industry-driven.
Outside work, I enjoy traveling and travel photography. With the recent career transition, however, leisure travels have been minimized. Nowadays, I spend most of my free time reading, listening to music, and yes, binge-watching. I also love highway driving, every now and then, on weekends; it helps the mind relax. I like the fact that in long drives I get to listen to awesome road trip playlists without interruption. Continue reading PyDev of the Week: Erika Fille Legara
In this screencast, we will learn about creating Python virtual environments using the popular virtualenv package.
You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
This week we welcome Reimar Bauer (@ReimarBauer) as our PyDev of the Week! Reimar is a core developer of the popular Python wiki package, MoinMoin. He has spoken at PyCON DE, FOSDEM and EuroPython about Python. Let’s take a few minutes to get to know him better!
Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
I am a programmer from Jülich, Germany. That‘s a small town between Aachen and Cologne.
I work at the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH. Employees research in the fields of energy and the environment, information and brain research with the aim of providing society with options for action facilitating sustainable development.
My work is related to atmospheric science.
I wrote a few books in the past years about data structures and about IDL, one of my first science related programming languages, developed by Ray Sterner in Boulder, Colorado.
In 2012 I was elected to the board of the German Python Software Verband. I helped to organize several Python Events in Germany, several PyConDE and the famous EuroPython in Berlin. I stepped down from this position and I left in 2017 because I needed and wanted to spend more time with my family.
I have been a fellow of the Python Software Foundation since 2013.
I used to play trombone in a Big Band, but had to take a break because I just couldn’t find the time this hobby needs. I enjoy sightseeing, hiking, sociocracy3.0, meeting a lot of different people. And sometimes I play an augmented reality game named ingress.
In 2019 the 10th PythonCamp Cologne Germany, a classic barcamp, will be the next community project Reimar Bauer is involved in. Continue reading PyDev of the Week: Reimar Bauer
This week I am putting my 2 most recent self-published books on Sale starting today through November 26th.
ReportLab – PDF Processing with Python is available for $9.99:
JupyterLab 101 is available for $9.99:
You can also get my book, wxPython Recipes, from Apress for $7 for a limited time with the following coupon code: cyberweek18.
Python Interviews is $10 right now too!
In this screencast, we learn about the popular SQLAlchemy package. SQLAlchemy is an Object Relational Mapper for Python that allows you to interface with databases in a “Pythonic” manner.
You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
Note: This video was recorded a couple of years ago, so there may be some minor API changes in SQLAlchemy.
This week we welcome Mike Müller (@pyacademy) as our PyDev of the Week. Mike is the creator of Python Academy and has been teaching Python for over 14 years. Mike has spoken at PyCon for several years and was featured on the Talk Python podcast two years ago. Let’s take a few moments to learn more about Mike!
Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
I studied hydrology and water resources and earned a five-year degree from Dresden University of Technology, Germany. After that I went on studying for a MS in the same field at The University of Arizona, AZ, USA. Then I continued my studies of water resources and was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Cottbus, Germany. I worked in this field in consulting and research for 11 years at a research institute and four years at a consulting office.
In my limited spare time I do some calisthenics, i.e. bodyweight training to keep fit. Pull-ups are fun. 🙂 Continue reading PyDev of the Week: Mike Müller
In this screencast, I introduce the popular requests package, which is a replacement for Python’s urllib.
You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
My latest book, Jupyter Notebook 101 is now officially released.
You can purchase it at the following retailers:
You can also download a sample of the book from Leanpub. Get it for $9.99 on Leanpub for a limited time only!
Jupyter Notebook 101 will teach you all you need to know to create and use Notebooks effectively. You can use Jupyter Notebook to help you learn to code, create presentations, and make beautiful documentation.
The Jupyter Notebook is used by the scientific community to demonstrate research in an easy-to-replicate manner.
You will learn the following in Jupyter Notebook 101:
This week we welcome Frank Vieira as our PyDev of the Week. Frank is the creator of the Vibora package, a “fast, asynchronous and elegant Python web framework.” You can see what else Frank is up to over on his Github profile. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Frank better!
Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
My name is Frank Vieira, I’m 25, a really skilled Dota player (lol) and passionate software developer. On my free time, I like to play some games and work on hobby projects like small games using Unity or open-source projects as Vibora. Continue reading PyDev of the Week: Frank Vieira