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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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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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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The second edition of my book, Python 101, has been successfully funded on Kickstarter. As is tradition, I have added a couple of stretch goals for adding more content to this already hefty book. Here are the goals: 1) $5000 – Get 4 Bonus Chapters These chapters would cover the following topics: Assignment Expressions How
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a well-known format popularized by Adobe. It purports to create a document that should render the same across platforms. Python has several libraries that you can use to work with PDFs: ReportLab – Creating PDFs PyPDF2 – Manipulating preexisting PDFs pdfrw – Also for manipulating preexisting PDFs, but also
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It’s summer time and now is a great time to learn Python! To help with that, I am running a sale of my Python books for the next week. The sale ends August 6th. All books are $9.99-$14.99 on Leanpub! Creating GUI Applications with wxPython Creating GUI Applications with wxPython is my latest book. In
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My latest book, Creating GUI Applications with wxPython is now available for purchase. Creating GUI Applications with wxPython is a book that will teach you how to use wxPython to create applications by actually creating several mini-programs. I have found that while learning how the various widgets work in wxPython is valuable, it is even better
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I personally really love self-publishing or Indy Publishing, so I am a little biased. In this article, I will go over what I think are the pros and cons of Indy Publishing versus going with a “real” publisher. Pros Here are my favorite parts about indy publishing: I control the release date I control the
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I get asked questions about my book writing process from time to time and I have been meaning to write about this topic for a while. The main reason I wrote my first book, Python 101, was because of the readers on my blog. They had been encouraging me to write a book on wxPython
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I am pleased to announce my latest book project, Creating GUI Applications with wxPython which I am running a Kickstarter campaign for. Creating GUI Applications with wxPython is a book that will teach you how to use wxPython to create applications by actually creating several mini-programs. I have found that while learning how the various
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This week I am putting my 2 most recent self-published books on Sale starting today through November 26th. ReportLab – PDF Processing with Python is available for $9.99: Leanpub Gumroad – Use offer code black18 JupyterLab 101 is available for $9.99: Leanpub Gumroad – Use offer code black18 You can also get my book, wxPython
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In this screencast you will learn the basics of profiling your code using Python’s built-in cProfile module. You can read the chapter this screencast is based on here – http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or get a copy of the book on Leanpub.
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In this episode, you will learn the basics of Python decorators and what the are good for. You can read the chapter this screencast is based on here: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/ or purchase the book on Leanpub You can also read about decorators in a couple of other articles on my blog: Python: All About Decorators Python
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