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Creating TUI Applications with Textual and Python is Released

Books, Education, intermediate, Python / Mike / July 15, 2025 / Python, Textual, TUI

Learn how to create text-based user interfaces (TUIs) using Python and the amazing Textual package. Textual is a rapid application development framework for your terminal or web browser. You can build complex, sophisticated applications in your terminal. While terminal applications are text-based rather than pixel-based, they still provide fantastic user interfaces. The Textual package allows […]

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Python in Excel Announcement!

Education, Python / Mike / August 23, 2023 / Business, Excel, News, Python

Microsoft announced that Python is now a part of Excel! Guido van Rossum mentioned on Twitter that he helped the Excel team add Python to the popular spreadsheet application. You can get Python in Excel if you have the ability to access Public Preview versions of Office. This new feature allows you to write Python

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The Python Show – Episode 2 – Data Science and Python with Akshay Pachaar (Video)

beginner, Education, Python / Mike / June 16, 2023 / Podcast, Python

The Python Show’s second episode is now on YouTube! Today’s episode is about data science and Python with my guest, Akshay Pachaar! You can follow Akshay on Twitter or befriend him on LinkedIn. Topics covered include: How Akshay got into tech, data science, and Python Using Python in data science Python and maps / GIS

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The Python Show – Episode 2 – Data Science and Python with Akshay Pachaar

beginner, Education, Python / Mike / June 13, 2023 / Podcast, Python

Today’s episode is about data science and Python with my guest, Akshay Pachaar! You can follow Akshay on Twitter or befriend him on LinkedIn. Topics covered include: How Akshay got into tech, data science, and Python Using Python in data science Python and maps / GIS Machine learning LLMs Content creation + audience growth tips

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The Python Show Podcast Now on YouTube

Education, Python / Mike / June 9, 2023 / Podcast, Python

The Python Show Podcast now has a YouTube channel too. You can find the first episode of The Python Show there now: If you prefer to listen to The Python Show, you can stream it on the following websites: The Python Show website Apple Podcasts Pocket Cast Spotify TuneIn

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The Basics of Python Live Course

beginner, Education, Python / Mike / February 16, 2023 / Python

Have you wanted to learn Python but haven’t been able to get started? Perhaps you did start and then got stuck. That’s okay! Mike Driscoll is giving a new Basics of Python live course on Lighthall. There will be approximately four hours of content in this course. Register Now!You will learn about the following topics:

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Python Quiz 1 – Exceptionally Crazy

Education, Python / Mike / January 11, 2023 / Python, quiz

The Python programming language allows you to catch exceptions using the try / except construct. But what happens if you nest exception handlers and throw in a break statement too? Your mission in this quiz is to find the answer to that question! The Quiz Are you ready to start solving quizzes? Of course, you

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The Python Papers Newsletter

beginner, Education, Python / Mike / January 2, 2023 / Python

I’ve been kicking around the idea of starting a Python newsletter for a couple of months now. I decided to bite the bullet and give it a try in 2023. My newsletter is called The Python Papers. I will be covering a lot of different Python topics: Python GUIs Image processing with Python Beginner Python

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Python Black Friday / Cyber Monday Sales 2022

beginner, Education / Mike / November 22, 2022 / Black Friday, Python

It’s that time of year again when you can get great deals on Python books and courses! You can take $10 off ANY of my self-published books on Gumroad by using the following coupon code: black2022 This code works on my latest, unfinished book, The Python Quiz Book, as well. You can learn lots of

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Python 103 – Practical Python Course Now Available

beginner, Education, intermediate, Python / Mike / September 19, 2022 / Python

I just launched my third course on Teach Me Python. This course is called Python 103 – Practical Python In this new course, you will learn about the following: Part I – Python Use Cases Lesson 1 – How to Create a Command Line Application with argparse Lesson 2 – How to Parse XML Lesson

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Announcing: Teach Me Python

beginner, Education, Python / Mike / September 12, 2022 / Python

Teach Me Python is a brand new website about the Python Programming language. Teach Me Python is a subscription-based service that will teach you Python using courses, eBooks, tutorials, and videos. The tutorials and courses will include live code examples that you can run in your browser, when possible. Courses track your progress so you

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Data Science Packages in Python (Video)

beginner, Education, Python / Mike / June 14, 2022 / data science, Python

In this tutorial, I will talk about some of the many different data science packages you can use in Python. Packages mentioned: pandas, matplotlib, numpy, scipy, mahotas, OpenCV, Keras, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Theano, Bokeh, Plotly, Scikit-learn, Scikit-image

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Announcing: The Python 101 Video Course

beginner, Education, intermediate, Video / Mike / May 3, 2022 / Course, Python

I am happy to announce that I am creating a Python 101 video course, which is based on Python 101: 2nd Edition. The course will eventually include videos that cover the chapters in the books. It is launching with 13 videos that run 168+ minutes! The following link will give you $10 off! Purchase Now

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Python Black Friday / Cyber Monday Sales 2021

Books, Education, Python / Mike / November 24, 2021 / Python

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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Python Comes to Texas Instruments and Casio Graphing Calculators

Education, Python / Mike / August 20, 2021 / Education, Python

Texas Instruments announced that they are adding a new graphing calculator called TI-84 Plus CE Python. The TI-84 Plus uses CircuitPython rather than the standard Python that most developers are aware of. CircuitPython is made by AdaFruit for embedded devices, like a calculator. You can read more about CircuitPython being added to the calculator over

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