Big Announcement: the 2024.8 version of Unlearning SQL, and the 2024.9 version of Pivot to Python are available from booksellers online. Both are revised and all the code tested with Python 3.12.
This book shows you how to translate essential SQL concepts into the Python …
Let's say you want to self-publish an ebook and a print-on-demand paperback book.
This isn't impossible, nor is it particularly easy. Here's what I've learned.
You've got two obvious paths to make sure your EPUB book and your print-on-demand book match:
Book (pre) Announcement:
Stand-alone document files for tech writing are awful. They should not be used as widely as they are.
We used to call editors like MS-Word WYSIWYG -- What You See Is What You Get. Once upon a time, an editor that immediately presented the final rendered doc …
Want a book with dozens of project ideas?
Each has a description, and approach, and deliverables. It's a lot like ordinary development work, but with some detailed guidance from the author. (And no deadline imposed by your team lead or manager.)
These are projects you can do. You can post …
more ...It's hard to write shameless promotional material.
I already wrote the books, isn't that bold enough?
It isn't, though.
Packt’s Head of Product, Oli Huggins, said: “We believe in helping to serve and support the global developer community. By selling our eBooks and Videos for $5, we hope to …more ...
Check out https://www.pythonpodcast.com/steven-lott-learn-to-code-episode-283/. This was a fun conversation on Python and learning.
We didn't talk about my books in detail. Instead, we talked about learning and what it takes to get closer to mastery.
It's a thing I worry about. I suspect other writers worry about …
more ...See https://opendatascience.com/removing-items-from-a-set-remove-pop-and-difference/
This puts the focus on a few important set operations.
more ...Python 101, by Michael Driscoll. 545 pages, available from leanpub.com in a variety of formats. Available soon in hardcover.
The modern Python programming language is a large topic. A book on a programming language has to be seen as a collection of several large topics.
At its core, a …
more ...Most of the things that got cut were (to me) obviously obsolete. For example, replacing collections.namedtuple with typing.NamedTuple seemed like a clear example of obsolete. A reviewer really thought I should skip all NamedTuple and use frozen data classes.
More important are some things that I learned about …
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