The Python 101 Screencast Kickstarter is Launching Soon

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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 and what will also be covered in the video series:

Part I: Learning the Basics

• Chapter 1 – IDLE
• Chapter 2 – Strings
• Chapter 3 – Lists, Tuples and Dictionaries
• Chapter 4 – Conditional Statements
• Chapter 5 – Loops
• Chapter 6 – Python Comprehensions
• Chapter 7 – Exception Handling
• Chapter 8 – Working with Files
• Chapter 9 – Importing
• Chapter 10 – Functions
• Chapter 11 – Classes

Part II: Learning from the Library

• Chapter 12 – Introspection
• Chapter 13 – The csv Module
• Chapter 14 – The ConfigParser Module
• Chapter 15 – The logging Module
• Chapter 16 – The os Module
• Chapter 17 – The email and smtplib Modules
• Chapter 18 – The sqlite Module
• Chapter 19 – The subprocess Module
• Chapter 20 – The sys Module
• Chapter 21 – The threading Module
• Chapter 22 – The datetime and time Modules
• Chapter 23 – The xml Modules

Part III – Intermediate Odds and Ends

• Chapter 24 – The Python Debugger  • Chapter 25 – Decorators
• Chapter 26 – The lambda
• Chapter 27 – Code Profiling
• Chapter 28 – An Intro to Testing

Part IV – Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

• Chapter 29 – Installing Modules
• Chapter 30 – ConfigObj
• Chapter 31 – Parsing XML with lxml
• Chapter 32 – Python Code Analysis
• Chapter 33 – The requests package
• Chapter 34 – SQLAlchemy
• Chapter 35 – virtualenv

Part V – Packaging and Distribution

• Chapter 36 – Creating Modules and Packages
• Chapter 37 – How to Add Your Code to PyPI
• Chapter 38 – The Python egg
• Chapter 39 – Python wheels
• Chapter 40 – py2exe
• Chapter 41 – bbfreeze
• Chapter 42 – cx_Freeze
• Chapter 43 – PyInstaller
• Chapter 44 – Creating an Installer

 

I will probably be tossing in other videos on related topics as I go along. I look forward to hearing from my readers and backers. It’s going to be a blast to figure out how to get all this information into your hands!

4 thoughts on “The Python 101 Screencast Kickstarter is Launching Soon”

  1. DevPlayer

    Wow. I am looking forward to seeing this. Although I prefer to read, watching someone work a text medium into a visual medium I suspect will add insightful facets to the material for viewers. Just watching someone else, experienced and with a solid script, your book, work could show new techniques on -how- one works.

  4. Mike Driscoll

    Yeah, this will be interesting. I realized that it’s going to be easier to just show how some stuff works rather than trying to explain it in prose, so I think this will certainly have some value.

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