I recently came across a post by BusinessInsider that claimed that Python was one of the top eight languages to have on your resume in 2016. Python comes in at 6th place. However, the article cites an article on CodingDojo as its source of information, which was talking about “The 8 Most In-Demand Programming Languages of 2015”. […]
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This week we welcome Jeff Triplett @webology as our PyDev of the Week. He is the co-founder of the Django Events Foundation North America (DEFNA) and the current chair of DjangoCon US 2016. Let’s spend a few minutes getting to know him better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): I
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This week we welcome Fabio Zadrozny (@fabiofz) as our PyDev of the Week. He is the current force behind the PyDev project, a Python IDE for Eclipse. Fabio works on many other projects, as you will see if you check out his github profile. Let’s spend some time getting to know him better.
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This week we welcome Mahesh Venkitachalam (@electronutIN) as our PyDev of the Week. He is the author of Python Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer from No Starch Press. Mahesh has a very interesting blog that contains a lot of articles about hardware hacking. I recommend checking it out. Now let’s spend some time
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This week we welcome Florian Bruhin as our PyDev of the Week. Let’s spend some time getting to know our fellow Pythonista! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): My name is Florian Bruhin, I’m currently 22.9 years old, and living in Switzerland. I’m working as an electronical engineer (though, ironically,
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No Starch Press recently sent me a book called Python Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer by Mahesh Venkitachalam to review. I don’t normally get books from that publisher so I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the book is quite good. But I won’t provide any spoilers here as we have a quick
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I’m putting my book, Python 101, on sale for the rest of the month of December. You can now get it for 50% off of the eBook by using the following offer code: xmas2015 This code also works for pre-ordering the Python 101 Screencast, which is a series of videos based on the Python 101
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This week we would like to welcome Marc-Andre Lemburg (@malemburg) as our PyDev of the Week. Mr. Lemburg is a Python core developer and entrepreneur. He owns his own business eGenix and writes about Python on his blog. He is one of the founding members of the Python Software Foundation and is currently a board
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This week we welcome Nick Coghlan (@ncoghlan_dev) as our PyDev of the Week. Nick is a core developer of the Python language. He also write a pretty intense Python blog. Let’s take some time to hear what he has to say.
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Last month I wrote about context managers and a company called Webucator asked me for my permission to turn the article into a screencast. It ended up looking pretty good. Check it out below: Webucator has other Python related training too. I don’t know much about them, but if this video is any indication, I
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This week we welcome Arun Ravindran (@arocks) as our PyDev of the Week! Arun has a fun Python blog that is worth checking out. He is also the author of Django Design Patterns and Best Practices. Let’s spend some time getting to know Arun.
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This week we welcome Amit Saha as our PyDev of the Week! Amit is the author of Doing Math with Python and Write Your First Program. Let’s take some time to get to know Amit better!
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This week we welcome Brian Schrader (@sonicrocketman) as our PyDev of the Week. Brian blogs about Python and various other subjects of interest. You can get a taste of what open source projects he contributes to on his Github account. Let’s spend some time getting to know Brian better.
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This week we welcome Craig Bruce (@craigbruce) as our PyDev of the Week. Let’s see what he had to say! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): My background is in computational chemistry and cheminformatics. What that really means is that I’m trained to work in the small, and mainly unheard,
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Many programming languages have the concept of the lambda function. In Python, the lambda is an anonymous function or unbound function. The syntax for them looks a bit odd, but it’s actually just taking a simple function and turning it into a one-liner. Let’s look at a regular simple function to start off: #———————————————————————- def
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