Book Review

eBook Review: Learning scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python

The people at Packt Publishing recently sent me an ebook copy of Raúl Garreta and Guillermo Moncecchi’s book, Learning scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python to review. Machine learning isn’t a topic I’m very familiar with, but I gave the book a shot as it sounded interesting. I’ll start off with my quick review for those […]

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eBook Review: Kivy – Interactive Applications in Python

I recently received a copy of Kivy: Interactive Applications in Python by Roberto Ulloa. This is currently the only book about Kivy. Kivy is a cross-platform GUI toolkit that will run on Linux, Windows, and OS X as well as Android and iOS. In fact, the people behind Kivy emphasize that this is aimed primarily

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Book Review: Tkinter GUI Application Development HOTSHOT

There aren’t very many Tkinter books in existence, which is something I’ve always found a little odd as it is the GUI toolkit that is included with Python. Basically you have Grayson’s Python and Tkinter Programming from 2000 or Roseman’s Modern Tkinter for Busy Python Developers from 2012. I reviewed the latter here, if you’re

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eBook Review: Treading on Python Volume 2: Intermediate Python

Last week, Matt Harrison sent me a copy of his latest Python eBook entitled Treading on Python Vol 2: Intermediate Python. I was intrigued since I rarely get to read Intermediate level Python books. In fact, I would say that some of the stuff that the author talks about goes into the advanced level. Anyway,

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Book Review: web2py Application Development Cookbook

I have read about web2py on several occasions, but never used it myself. Then a few weeks ago, a representative from Packt Publishing contacted me about reviewing their new cookbook about web2py. It’s written by seven authors, namely: Richard Gordon, Pablo Martin Mulone, Mariano Reingart, Bruno Cezar Rocha, Massimo Di Pierro, Michele Comitini and Jonathan

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eBook Review: Modern Tkinter for Busy Python Developers

I recently bought Modern Tkinter for Busy Python Developers by Mark Roseman from Amazon and just finished it yesterday. I think it’s pretty new, but I can’t find the release date for it now. Anyway, let’s get on with the review! Quick Review Why I picked it up: I bought this book because I’d been

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eBook Review – Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python

Last month around the time of PyCon USA 2012, Matt Harrison sent me a copy of his newest book, Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python. I’ve been wanting to learn more about generators anyway, so I thought this was pretty fortuitous. Sadly, it took me a month to get around to reading it.

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