TLDR Amazon turns a blind eye towards book piracy. A cynical take is that they do it to line the pocketbooks.
Why would the world's largest book marketplace encourage piracy?
A shady side of Amazon rears its head and is the bane of book authors everywhere. This …
more ...TLDR My new Pandas book, Effective Pandas, is released ebook here, physical book to follow soon.
Yes, I wrote my third (or fourth, if you count Machine Learning Pocket Reference) Pandas book. In 2016, I released Learning the Pandas Library, and in 2020 I released …
more ...TLDR You need to have skin in the game and invest in yourself. If my courses are too expensive for your part of the world let me know what you can invest in yourself.
Last week something new happened to me. I was blocked on Twitter. It has probably …
more ...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 …
more ...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.
The ErgoDox is the Voltron of keyboards-a combination of open source hardware and software …
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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 …
more ...In addition to some consulting work and catching the tail end of spring skiing, I've been working hard. Early next month I will be selling a course-90% of Python.
more ...A course supplemented with both videos and exercises == HUGE win. I'm a visual learner... the videos help explain further and …
The kind authors of Two Scoops of Django and I have teamed up for a Cyber Monday Sale. Check it out if you are interested in mastering Python and Django!
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