Today and tomorrow the Indianapolis Python Workshop is running. From the website, "The Indianapolis Python Workshop for women and their friends is a free, hands-on, beginners' introduction to computer programming." This event was inspired by a similar event in Boston.

I love this local effort to empower others by teaching …

Treading on Python will be on promotion today. If you are a Kindle owner and interested in learning Python, today is your lucky day. If you prefer handouts/cheatsheets here's another freebie. Cheers.

This post describes my efforts at using Amazon KDP select to sell technical non-fiction books. After some success in my efforts last month (reaching the top of my sub niche), I can report that I fell back a few spots but for the most part sales have been steady. As …

Here's just a few notes from my PyCon 2012 experience. This was my 7th PyCon, and though the conference has changed over the years, I think it is mostly for the better. A general theme of PyCon this year was data analysis. I'm probably biased since I'm doing that at …

PyCon starts today. It's great to be back in what used to be my backyard for PyCon. I love the Bay Area. To celebrate I'm doing an Amazon KDP Select Promotion on my Treading on Python book. During an Amazon "promotion", the price is reduced to $0.00 for the …

Assigments for PyCon Hands-on Tutorials

• Beginning Python
• Intermediate Python

Here is the latest iteration of my beginning Python handout. It has gone through a few iterations over the years. It is pretty cool that about 90% of the basics of Python fits on both sides of a legal sized paper.

Yesterday was the start of the ultimate test of the promise of Amazon KDP Select. The Kindle Direct Publishing Select program is a 90 day exclusivity commitment to Amazon, in return for some reward. Amazon reports authors finding ~30% increased sales due to enrollment. I've read a bunch of fiction …

The Grand Rapids Python User Group meets on holidays. They meet on holidays to discuss decorators (among other things). They also email authors of Python decorator books and ask them if they have free copies to give away at their meetings. Given that I'm subject to the terms of Amazon …

I messed around with Cafepress last night creating a shirt that I will probably use as a prize at my PyCon Intermediate Hands-On Tutorial. It has a pretty good decorator on the back.

BTW --- Someone should tell Cafepress about this technology called Ajax...