Category: Python
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It’s my annual birthday sale!
Today (Sunday, July 14th) is my birthday. And as happens every year, I’m celebrating with huge discounts on all of my online courses and books. I’m now 49, so you can get 49% off of anything in my online store. But as with birthdays, this massive sale won’t last long — it ends Monday evening.…
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Registration for Weekly Python Exercise closes today!
If you’ve been using Python for at least six months, but still find yourself searching on Stack Overflow and Google for answers to your problems — you’re not alone. The good news is that the solution to your problem, to greater Python fluency, is easy: Practice, practice, and more practice. My new advanced-level cohort of…
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Announcing: Python standard library, video explainer
A month or two ago, I saw an online quiz that caught my eye: How much of the Python standard library do you know? Now, the “standard library” is the collection of modules and packages that come with Python. It constitutes the “batteries” that “batteries included” refers to in the Python world. And the standard…
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Want to level up your Python? Join Weekly Python Exercise, starting July 2nd
Let’s face it: Stack Overflow has made developers’ lives easier. Almost every time I have a question, I find that someone on Stack Overflow has asked it, and that people have answered it, often in great detail. I’m thus not against Stack Overflow, not by a long shot. But I have found that many Python…
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Early-bird pricing for Weekly Python Exercise ends today!
Just a reminder: Registration for the advanced (B2) cohort of Weekly Python Exercise, which will begin on July 2nd, will remain open for the next two weeks. BUT early-bird pricing ($80 for 15 weeks of Python exercises, solutions, and community) ends today — Tuesday, June 18th. If you want to sharpen your Python skills, then…
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Understanding Python assignment
Here’s a quick question I often ask students in my Python classes: >>> x = 100 >>> y = x >>> x = 200 After executing the above code, what is the value of y? The answer: >>> print(y)100 Many of my students, especially those with a background in C, are surprised. Didn’t we say…
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Reminder: Early-bird pricing for Weekly Python Exercise ends tomorrow
This is just a quick reminder that if you want to join the advanced cohort of Weekly Python Exercise starting July 2nd, you should do it by tomorrow (Tuesday, June 18th). Don’t miss this opportunity to improve your Python coding skills! We’ll be talking about iterators, generators, decorators, threads, and functional programming, and helping you…
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“Python Workout” is Manning’s Deal of the Day!
I’m a firm believer in improving your Python fluency via practice, practice, and more practice. “Python Workout” is a collection of my 50 favorite exercises from my 20 years of on-site Python training at some of the world’s largest and best-known companies. I’m delighted to announce that “Python Workout,” my book with 50 exercises to…
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Variables are pronouns: A simple metaphor for Python newbies
I teach about 10 different courses to companies around the world, but my favorite remains “Python for non-programmers.” Participants in this course are typically network and system administrators, support engineers, and managers who want to learn some programming skills, but don’t see themselves as programmers. Moreover, many of them took a programming course back when…