Following the release of Illustrated Guide to Python 3, my friend Michael Kennedy approached me about creating a course for Talk Python. (In his concerted effort to wean people off of legacy Python) He wanted a course with all the new features of Python 3. We planned it out, and …

Down the Training Rabbit Hole

In the past few months I have been doing a bit of corporate training for MetaSnake. I have noticed a few things:

• Programmers that have used Python in a work setting miss details that I consider "beginning" knowledge

• Programmers that are new to Python keep …

I made a screencast exploring one of Raymond Hettinger's tweets a while back. His 140 character exposition suggested that a student of his wanted to use decorators to unittest functions.

#python idea (from a student): @test(inputs=(5,2), output=25) @test(inputs=(2,5), output=32) def mypow(base …

I purchased and built an ErgoDox keyboard over a year ago. I thought it would be good to revisit that since I get asked questions about the keyboard every now and then.

What is an ErgoDox?

The ErgoDox is the Voltron of keyboards-a combination of open source hardware and software …

Starting something new can be overwhelming and confusing. Where does one start? Where does one desire to go? Because Python (the language, standard library, ecosystem, community, and more) has a such a wide breadth of functionality, it can be even more daunting.

I have long been impressed by the abstract …