Python in education, from Kindergarten through college. The article will probably be about teaching Python.
I recorded the next episode of my Python 101 screencast today. You can support my crowdfunding campaign here. The video is about Python’s looping structures. You will also learn how to use the else construct with a loop. Here’s the video:
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My second Kickstarter campaign is coming to an end in less than 2 days! I still haven’t met my goal, but I know I could still make it. In the mean time, I created episode #3, which is a screencast about Python’s lists, tuples and dictionaries. You can check it out here: Be sure to
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Yesterday I put together another demo of Python 101, the Screencast. This one is based on the first chapter of my book, which covers the basics of IDLE, Python’s built-in development environment. You can check out the video below: The Kickstarter campaign for the screencast series has one more week to go. You can check
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My latest project is turning my book, Python 101, into a Screencast. I have started a Kickstarter to raise funds to help in this endeavor. You can check it out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/34257246/the-python-101-screencast The basic idea is to take each chapter of the book and turn it into a screencast. There are 44 chapters currently that
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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
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Yesterday I posted about PyImageSearch Gurus computer vision Kickstarter and then I came across another semi-related Kickstarter. This one is for Machine vision with Python using an OpenMV Cam. It uses MicroPython (Python for microcontrollers) to control a camera on a circuit board. This project can be used with an Arduino, mbed or other microcontroller
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I’ve actually never heard of this guy, but the fellow behind the pyimagesearch blog has created a Kickstarter for a computer vision subscription course. His name is Adrian Rosebrock and his Kickstarter was funded in 25 minutes! His course covers a lot of different topics in computer vision and sounds really interesting. You should definitely
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This week we welcome Dr. Margherita DI LEO as our PyDev of the Week. She is our first PyLady in this series! Let’s spend some time getting to know her!
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This week we have Mariano Reingart as our PyDev of the Week. Mariano co-authored the web2py Application Development Cookbook for Packt Publishing and has recently done a partial port of wxQt for wxPython. Let’s spend some time with Mariano to see what he has to say!
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I have decided to run a sale on my book, Python 101 until the end of the year. From now until January 1st, you can get my book for 50% off if you use the following offer code: xmas2014 Just go to https://gumroad.com/products/bppWr and enter the offer code on checkout. Happy holidays!
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Code Condo recently named this blog, Mouse Vs Python, as one of the “11 Must-Read Blogs for Python Developers”. The article is worth a read as it lists a number of other really good websites, such as pydanny’s and Doug Hellman’s. I really enjoyed Effbot’s when I was learning Python, however I don’t think Mr.
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My first book, Python 101 has been published today. You can buy it directly from my blog which will get you a PDF, EPUB and MOBI version of the book. You can also purchase a softcover edition of the book via Lulu. Finally, I have published the eBook to Amazon. If you happen to run
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Packt Publishing asked me to be a technical reviewer for one of their latest Python books, Mastering Object-Oriented Python by Steven Lott. This book is a sequel of sorts to their 2010 release, Python 3 Object Oriented Programming by Dusty Phillips, which I reviewed here. Note: This book is explicitly for Python 3 developers and
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Python decorators are really cool, but they can be a little hard to understand at first. A decorator in Python is a function that accepts another function as an argument. The decorator will usually modify or enhance the function it accepted and return the modified function. This means that when you call a decorated function,
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Python has a vast library of modules that are included with its distribution. The csv module gives the Python programmer the ability to parse CSV (Comma Separated Values) files. A CSV file is a human readable text file where each line has a number of fields, separated by commas or some other delimiter. You can
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