This week we welcome Elana Hashman (@ehashdn) as our PyDev of the Week! Elana is a director of the Open Source Initiative and a fellow of the Python Software Foundation. She is also the Clojure Packaging Team lead and a Java Packaging Team member. You can see some of her work over on Github. You […]
It was recently discovered that several thousand scientific articles could be invalid in their conclusions because scientists did not understand that Python's glob.glob() does not return sorted results. This is being reported on by Vice, Slashdot and there's an interesting discussion going on over on Reddit as well. Some are reporting this as a glitch […]
This week we welcome Paul Ivanov (@ivanov) as our PyDev of the Week! Paul is a core developer of IPython and Jupyter. He is also an instructor at Software Carpentry. You can learn more about Paul on his website. You can also see what he's been up to in open source by visiting his Github […]
September 30, 2019 by
Mike This week we welcome Marlene Mhangami (@marlene_zw) as our PyDev of the Week! Marlene is the PyCon Africa (@pyconafrica) chair, the co-founder of @zimbopy and a director for the Python Software Foundation. Let's spend some time getting to know her! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc): Sure, in college I […]
September 23, 2019 by
Mike This week we welcome Peter Farrell (@hackingmath) as our PyDev of the Week! Peter is the author Math Adventures with Python and two other math related Python books. You can learn more about Peter by visiting his website. Let's take a few moments to get to know Peter! Can you tell us a little about […]
September 18, 2019 by
Mike A code kata is a fun way for computer programmers to practice coding. They are also used a lot for learning how to implement Test Driven Development (TDD) when writing code. One of the popular programming katas is called FizzBuzz. This is also a popular interview question for computer programmers. The concept behind FizzBuzz is […]