I am happy to announce my latest book project, Pillow: Image Processing with Python. This book will teach you how to use Pillow, the "friendly" fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL). You can purchase early access to the book on Kickstarter as well as get exclusive perks there such as T-shirts, signed copies of […]
December 15, 2020 by
Mike Packt Publishing will be selling all of their eBooks and videos for $5 from December 15th, 2020 through January 13th, 2021. If you would like to get some new Python books for a bargain price, this is a good time to do so. My book, Python Interviews, is included in the sale. Here are some […]
November 25, 2020 by
Mike Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals came early this year. From now until December 1st, all my books are on sale on Leanpub using the special links below. Check them out and learn something new Python today! Python 101: 2nd Edition - 25% Off on Leanpub Python 201: Intermediate Python - 30% off on Leanpub […]
February 19, 2020 by
Mike The second edition of my book, Python 101, has been successfully funded on Kickstarter. As is tradition, I have added a couple of stretch goals for adding more content to this already hefty book. Here are the goals: 1) $5000 - Get 4 Bonus Chapters These chapters would cover the following topics: Assignment Expressions How […]
September 10, 2019 by
Mike The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a well-known format popularized by Adobe. It purports to create a document that should render the same across platforms. Python has several libraries that you can use to work with PDFs: ReportLab - Creating PDFs PyPDF2 - Manipulating preexisting PDFs pdfrw - Also for manipulating preexisting PDFs, but also […]
It's summer time and now is a great time to learn Python! To help with that, I am running a sale of my Python books for the next week. The sale ends August 6th. All books are $9.99-$14.99 on Leanpub! Creating GUI Applications with wxPython Creating GUI Applications with wxPython is my latest book. In […]
