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:
JupyterLab 101 is available for $9.99:
You can also get my book, wxPython Recipes, from Apress for $7 for a limited time with the following coupon code: cyberweek18.
Python Interviews is $10 right now too!
In this screencast, we learn about the popular SQLAlchemy package. SQLAlchemy is an Object Relational Mapper for Python that allows you to interface with databases in a “Pythonic” manner.
You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
Note: This video was recorded a couple of years ago, so there may be some minor API changes in SQLAlchemy.
This week we welcome Mike Müller (@pyacademy) as our PyDev of the Week. Mike is the creator of Python Academy and has been teaching Python for over 14 years. Mike has spoken at PyCon for several years and was featured on the Talk Python podcast two years ago. Let’s take a few moments to learn more about Mike!
Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
I studied hydrology and water resources and earned a five-year degree from Dresden University of Technology, Germany. After that I went on studying for a MS in the same field at The University of Arizona, AZ, USA. Then I continued my studies of water resources and was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Cottbus, Germany. I worked in this field in consulting and research for 11 years at a research institute and four years at a consulting office.
In my limited spare time I do some calisthenics, i.e. bodyweight training to keep fit. Pull-ups are fun. 🙂 Continue reading PyDev of the Week: Mike Müller
In this screencast, I introduce the popular requests package, which is a replacement for Python’s urllib.
You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
My latest book, Jupyter Notebook 101 is now officially released.
You can purchase it at the following retailers:
You can also download a sample of the book from Leanpub. Get it for $9.99 on Leanpub for a limited time only!
Jupyter Notebook 101 will teach you all you need to know to create and use Notebooks effectively. You can use Jupyter Notebook to help you learn to code, create presentations, and make beautiful documentation.
The Jupyter Notebook is used by the scientific community to demonstrate research in an easy-to-replicate manner.
You will learn the following in Jupyter Notebook 101:
This week we welcome Frank Vieira as our PyDev of the Week. Frank is the creator of the Vibora package, a “fast, asynchronous and elegant Python web framework.” You can see what else Frank is up to over on his Github profile. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Frank better!
Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
My name is Frank Vieira, I’m 25, a really skilled Dota player (lol) and passionate software developer. On my free time, I like to play some games and work on hobby projects like small games using Unity or open-source projects as Vibora. Continue reading PyDev of the Week: Frank Vieira
In this episode, we learn how we can use PyLine and PyFlakes to check our code for issues. Of course since this video was made, Flake8 and Python Black have become pretty popular, so you might want to check those out as well.
You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
I recently had the opportunity to get my second book, Python 201: Intermediate Python added to a bundle of other interesting programming books.
It is called The Ultimate Programmer Super Stack and it is is a hand-curated collection of 25+ premium ecourses, bestselling ebooks, and bonus resources that will help new programmers:
And much more.
Here are just a few highlights that you’ll find inside the Stack:
This week we welcome Bernat Gabor (@gjbernat) as our PyDev of the Week! Bernat is a core developer of the tox automation project. You can check out his Github to see what other open source projects he is a part of. Let’s take a few moments to learn more about Bernat!
Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc.):
I was born and raised in Transylvania, Romania. I’ve got into computer science starting with my high school studies, and there was no going back on it ever since. I’ve done my BSc studies at Sapientia – Hungarian University of Transylvania and then followed up with my master studies at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Parallel with doing the master studies I’ve started working at Gravity R&D (a company that provides a recommendation engine under the Software-as-a-Service model), where I’ve been for almost five years. I now live in London, UK having reallocated here over two years ago and have been working ever since at Bloomberg LP. Continue reading PyDev of the Week: Bernat Gabor
Malware was recently discovered on the Python Packaging Index that targets Windows users. The package was called colourama and if it had been installed, would end up installing malware on your PC. It is basically hoping that you will misspell the popular colorama pacakge.
You can read more about the malware on Medium where it describes the malware as being a “Cryptocurrency Clipboard Hijacker”.
I actually wrote about this issue last year too when the Slovak National Security Office identified several malicious libraries on the Python Packaging Index.
I noticed this week that the Python Software Foundation is looking at adding security to PyPI in 2019 which they announced on their blog, although right now it does not appear to say what kind of security will be added.