Python tutorials, projects and books
The 6th edition of my book Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt is now available, for PyQt6 & PySide6.
I am very happy to announce that my Python GUI programming book Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt6 / PyQt6 Edition is now available in Korean from Acorn Publishing
Using a version control system (VCS) is crucial for any software development project. These systems allow developers to track changes to the project's codebase over time, removing the need to keep multiple copies of the project folder.
Python supports object-oriented programming (OOP) through classes, which allow you to bundle data and behavior in a single entity. Python classes allow you to quickly model concepts by creating representations of real objects that you can then use to organize your code.
Setting up a working development environment is the first step for any project. Your development environment setup will determine how easy it is to develop and maintain your projects over time. That makes it important to choose the right tools for your project . This article will guide you through how to set up Visual Studio Code, which is a popular free-to-use, cross-platform code editor…
Hello! Today I have released new digital editions of my PyQt5, PyQt6, PySide2 and PySide6 book Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt .
Programming screencasts are a popular way to teach programming and demo tools. Typically people will open up their favorite editor and record themselves tapping away. But this has a few problems. A good setup for coding isn't necessarily a good setup for video -- with text too small, a window too big, or too many distractions. Typing code in live means mistakes, which means more time editing or…
Hello! With the release of Qt6 versions of PyQt and PySide the course was getting a little crowded. So, today I've split the PySide tutorials into their own standalone PySide2 course and PySide6 course .
Hello! Today I have released the first PyQt6 edition of my book Create GUI Applications, with Python & Qt6 .
Hello! This morning I released the first Qt6 edition of my PySide book Create GUI Applications, with Python & Qt6 .
MicroPython is an implementation of the Python 3 programming language, optimized to run microcontrollers. It's one of the options available for programming your Raspberry Pi Pico and a nice friendly way to get started with microcontrollers.
The Basic 10 Liner contest has been running for 11 years. This year (2021) the 10th competition, and the first time I've heard of it, thanks to Dean Belfield .
The Basic 10 Liner contest has been running for 11 years. This year (2021) the 10th competition, and the first time I've heard of it, thanks to Dean Belfield .
The SAM Coupé was a British 8 bit home computer that was pitched as a successor to the ZX Spectrum, featuring improved graphics and sound and higher processor speed.
FRED was the most popular disk magazine for the SAM Coupé 8 bit home computer.Published by Colin MacDonald out of sunny Monifieth, Scotland, the magazine ran from it's first issue in 1990 through to it's last (82) in 1998.
How much game can you fit into 25 pixels? Quite a bit it turns out.
In the first part we looked at the information about the SAM Coupe network available in the user manual, technical manual and other examples of networking systems that may have influenced the design on the SAM Coupe. Next I'm going to look at the electrical design of the SAM Coupe and the other devices, to see if they really are compatible and whether we can knock together an interface to start…
The SAM Coupé was a British 8 bit home computer that was pitched as a successor to the ZX Spectrum, alongside improved graphics and sound and higher processor speed it also had in built support for MIDI and networking. The manual talked up how the SAM was ready to expand and the accompanying image captured my imagination, thinking of all the possibilities this little box had in it.
Hello! This morning I released a new update to my PyQt5 book Create GUI Applications, with Python & Qt5 . This is an enormous update, expanding it from 258 to 665 pages and adding 211 complete code examples.
It's been a very good year.
Etch-A-Snap is (probably) the worlds first Etch-A-Sketch Camera . Powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero (or Zero W) it snaps photos just like any other camera, but outputs them by drawing to an Pocket Etch-A-Sketch screen. Quite slowly.
This little project combines the previous accelerometer-gyroscope code with the 3D rotating OLED cube to produce a 3D cube which responds to gyro input, making it possible to "peek around" the cube with simulated perspective, or make it spin with a flick of the wrist.
Measuring acceleration and rotation has a lot of useful applications, from drone or rocket stablisation to making physically interactive handheld games.
The keys , values and items from a dictionary can be accessed using the .keys() , .values() and .items() methods. These methods return view objects which provide a view on the source dictionary.
An ESP2866 is never going to compete with an actual graphics card. But it has more than enough oomph to explore the fundamentals of 3D graphics. In this short tutorial we'll go through the basics of creating a 3D scene and displaying it on an OLED screen using MicroPython.