Texas Instruments announced that they are adding a new graphing calculator called TI-84 Plus CE Python. The TI-84 Plus uses CircuitPython rather than the standard Python that most developers are aware of. CircuitPython is made by AdaFruit for embedded devices, like a calculator. You can read more about CircuitPython being added to the calculator over […]
This week we welcome Patrick Loeber (@python_engineer) as our PyDev of the Week! Paticks runs a popular Python YouTube channel that covers Python basics, machine learning, and more! You can learn more about Patrick over on his website or support his work on Patreon. Let's spend some time getting to know Patrick better! Can you […]
No Starch Press is best known for creating books on computer programming. However they recently released a new product called Python Flash Cards by Eric Matthes, the author of Python Crash Course. I thought this was a unique product and decided to ask for a review copy. The cards and their box are high quality. […]
I am putting my interactive Educative Python courses on Sale for PyCon this week. You can get Python 101 and Python 201: Intermediate Python for 50% off. Here are the coupon codes you can use: For Python 101 - au-pycon-py101 For Python 201 - au-pycon-py201 Educative is also doing a 50% off sale on their Python […]
The Python programming language has several built-in types that it supports. One of my favorites is the dictionary. A dictionary is a mapping object maps hashable values to arbitrary objects (source). Other languages call dictionaries "hash tables". They are mutable objects that you can change whenever you want to, unlike tuples. A dictionary's keys must […]
My first book, Python 101, has been made into an online course on the educative website. Educative is kind of like Code Academy in that you can run the code snippets from the book to see what kind of output they produce. You can edit the examples that are executable, but you cannot save your […]
