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Matt Harrison asked me to take part in his latest course, Effective Book Authoring. This course will help you learn how to write a technical book. Matt interviewed me about how I approach book writing. (Note: I actually covered this in my article last year). The neat thing about this course is that Matt teaches […]
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I am happy to announce my latest book project, Pillow: Image Processing with Python. This book will teach you how to use Pillow, the “friendly” fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL). You can purchase early access to the book on Kickstarter as well as get exclusive perks there such as T-shirts, signed copies of
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I will be launching a new Kickstarter on Monday, January 4th to help launch my 9th book, Pillow: Image Processing with Python. In this book, you will learn how to edit photos with Python. You will discover how to extract metadata, crop, apply filters, resize and so much more! Here is the high-level table of
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Packt Publishing will be selling all of their eBooks and videos for $5 from December 15th, 2020 through January 13th, 2021. If you would like to get some new Python books for a bargain price, this is a good time to do so. My book, Python Interviews, is included in the sale. Here are some
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Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals came early this year. From now until December 1st, all my books are on sale on Leanpub using the special links below. Check them out and learn something new Python today! Python 101: 2nd Edition – 25% Off on Leanpub Python 201: Intermediate Python – 30% off on Leanpub
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My latest book, Python 101 (2nd Edition), is now available on Leanpub (PDF, epub, mobi) and Amazon (paperback / Kindle). I rewrote Python 101 almost completely from scratch. I used the original as a guide, but this book is completely fresh. It is based on Python 3.8 and covers lots of beginner and intermediate topics.
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In this tutorial, you will learn about Python’s comprehensions, like the popular list comprehension and the dictionary comprehension. Would you like to learn more about Python? Python 101 – 2nd Edition Purchase now on Leanpub or Amazon
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Packt Publishing recently released a new book called Modern Python Cookbook by Steven Lott. It’s sub-title is “133 recipes to develop flawless and expressive programs in Python 3.8, 2nd Edition”, which may give you some indication that this is a big book. In fact, it clocks in at 822 pages! I first read Lott’s Mastering
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In this video, you will learn how to create conditional statements using the Python programming language. Specifically, you will learn about the following topics: Comparison operators Creating a simple conditional Branching conditional statements Nesting conditionals Logical operators Special operators
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In this video you will learn about the basics of Python’s dictionary data type. You will cover the following: Create dictionaries Access dictionaries Dictionary methods Modifying dictionaries Deleting from your dictionary Buy the book: Python 101 2nd Edition Get the code on Github
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In this video, you will get an introduction to ReportLab’s Canvas object. You use ReportLab to create PDFs using Python and this tutorial will show you one way to accomplish that Want to learn more about working with PDFs in Python? Then check out my book: ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python Purchase now on Leanpub
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In this video tutorial, you will learn about the following: Create dictionaries Access dictionaries Dictionary methods Modifying dictionaries Deleting from your dictionary If you prefer to read your tutorials, then you can check out this one: Python 101 – Learning About Dictionaries
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Learn how to use Jupyter Notebook’s built-in widgets in this video tutorial. Get the book: https://leanpub.com/jupyternotebook101/
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Creating software is hard work. To make your software better, your application needs to keep working even when the unexpected happens. For example, let’s say your application needs to pull information down from the Internet. What happens if the person using your application loses their Internet connectivity? Another common issue is what to do if
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Type checking or hinting is a newer feature of Python that was added in Python 3.5. Type hinting is also known as type annotation. Type hinting is adding special syntax to functions and variable declarations that tell the developer what type the argument or variable is. Python does not enforce the type hints. You can
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