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 […]
My wife teaches 3rd grade math and she recently learned about the process of obtaining the digital root of numbers. The digital root is a single digit number found by summing the individual digits. So for 15, you would add 1+5 to get 6. Thus 6 is the digital root of 15. The trainer that […]
November 30, 2011 by
Mike This blog ran an article about wxPython, SQLAlchemy, CRUD and MVC earlier this month. The program that we created in that post was dubbed "MediaLocker", whether or not it was explicitly stated as such. Anyway, since then, I have received a couple comments about improving the program. One came from Michael Bayer, one of the […]
December 31, 2010 by
Mike This week's Python news covers new modules, updates to old modules, a newish Python Magazine (no, not that one!), an update on what's going on with the new wxPython and more! "TurboGears Joins the Pylons Project" (Alt title: TurboGears Becomes TurboPyramid). I think the title says it all...and no, they didn't really rename the project. […]
December 14, 2010 by
Mike Today I received an email from the O'Reilly School of Technology that was touting their new "Python Programming Certificate". It appears to be an online set of four courses created by Steve Holden, current Chairman of the Python Software Foundation and owner of Holden Web. Here is what their website says about the four courses: […]
