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What does every new developer do when they are first learning to program? They print out strings to their terminal. It’s how we learn! But printing out to the terminal isn’t what you do with most professional applications. Support on Kickstarter In those cases, you log into files. Sometimes, you log into multiple locations at […]
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The Python Quiz Book is Mike Driscoll’s latest book on the Python programming language. There are over one hundred quizzes and answers in the book to help you test your Python knowledge. From the Publisher Test your Python programming language the fun way… Rather than making annoying mistakes in your code! The Python Quiz Book
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Christmas time is a time of giving, at least in my family. I write a lot of Python books and recently started Teach Me Python where I plan to start hosting video courses on the Python programming language in addition to the text-based courses that are currently on the website. Over the next nine days,
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The Python Quiz Book and The Python Quiz Course are now available for early access. Both the course and the book will have 100+ quizzes and answers. Here are just some of the things you’ll learn about: Comprehensions f-strings Boolean math Generators Unpacking generalizations Lambdas Modulus operators Ternary expressions Callables Name shadowing Slicing Assignment expressions
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Quizzes are a fun way to test your knowledge of something. They make you think. The Python Quiz Book is all about brain teasers for the Python programming language. The Python Quiz Book isn’t made to teach you Python. It’s there to help you test your knowledge or teach you something new about the language.
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This week we welcome Allen Downey (@AllenDowney) as the PyDev of the Week! Allen is the author of Think Python, Modeling and Simulation in Python, Think Java: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, and several other books. Allen is also a professor at Olin College in Massachusetts. You can catch up with Allen by
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My latest Python book, Automating Excel with Python is now on ProductHunt If you have a ProductHunt account, I would appreciate it if you voted the book up. The book is currently available for purchase on Leanpub or Gumroad or Amazon
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My 10th Python book, Automating Excel with Python is now available on Amazon in Paperback or Kindle versions. In this book, you will learn how to use Python to do the following: Create Excel spreadsheets Read Excel spreadsheets Create different cell types Add and remove sheets Convert Excel spreadsheets into other file types Cell styling
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I am running a sale on my Python books where you can take $10 off any of my books on Gumroad. All you need to do is use this offer code when you check out: tenoff. This sale will continue until January 3rd, 2022! This code works on ALL my books, including my latest books!
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Lots of companies do sales on Black Friday, sometimes for the entire week. I am going to link to Black Friday sales for Python-related materials, including my own, in this article. I am having a sale where you can get $10 off if you use the following coupon: black21. This coupon works on any of
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I am joining some of my fellow indie content creators to create a FREE Python book bundle for the month of October 2021! The Indie Python Extravaganza! A collection of books that will help you to improve your knowledge of the Python programming language one page at a time. Join four indie authors in a
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This week we welcome Raghav Bali (@Rghv_Bali) as our PyDev of the Week. Raghav is the co-author of Generative AI with Python and TensorFlow 2, a book that teaches you how to create images, text, and music with VAEs, GANs, LSTMs, GPT models and more. You can see what else Raghav has been up to
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My Kickstarter for my latest book, Pillow: Image Processing with Python is ending in 8 days. You should check it out and learn how you can edit photos with Python! You will learn about the following topics in this book: Chapter 1 – Pillow Basics Chapter 2 – Colors Chapter 3 – Getting Image Metadata
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Python 101 2nd Edition is the latest version of Python 101. This book is meant to help you learn Python and then go beyond the basics. I’ve always felt that a beginner’s book should teach more than syntax. If you’d like to try out Python 101, you can do so for FREE for the next
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The Kickstarter for my latest book, Pillow: Image Processing with Python, was fully funded yesterday. I know it can be hard to decide if you want to buy a book without seeing it, so I am posting the first 3 chapters of the book for free. You can download them with this Dropbox link. This
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