An Open Letter from the Nation’s Tech and Business Leaders: Why Computer Science for All is good for all. "These are the skills and competencies that will power the growth of every industry..." Civic leaders and educators need to be in on this. And professionals who have skills to …

Wunderbar. A whole bunch of nicely integrated data collection modules. I prefer to hack around with Arduino. I'm not sure why -- perhaps it's the lure of building approximately from scratch. But this is very cool. No soldering. Just start gathering data. I have a half-built Arduino-based device to measure the …

I'm starting to get chapters back from the technical reviewers. This is an important part of the writing process: correcting my mistakes and clarifying things that confused the reviewers.

Packt has had a uniformly excellent cadre of technical reviewers. At this point, I've worked with something like a dozen people …

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Here's a link to the actual Python Week page, with all the deals there for the week: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/pythonweek

They also have a week of free Python books too, which change daily: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning/

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Go to https://www.packtpub.com. Look for the deal of the week. Get 20% off Python titles. You're welcome.

Once upon a time, when today's old folks were young, we'd debate the two project strategies: Hard Part Do Later (HPDL) vs. Hard Part First (HPF).

The HPDL folks argued that you could pick away at the hard part until -- eventually -- it wasn't hard any more. This doesn't often work …

Start here: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.5.html#whatsnew-pep-484

While new syntax is important, remember your audience in pitching the upgrade from Python 2.7. You may need to pander to people who aren't programmers or don't really know Python.

When selling the upgrade, it can help …

Here are some tricks to working with log file extracts. We're looking at some Enterprise Splunk extracts. We can fiddle around with Splunk, trying to explore the data. Or we can get a simple extract and fiddle around with the data in Python.

Running different experiments in Python seems to …

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At first, I imagined the problem was going to be PyAudio. This package has a bunch of installers. But the installers don't recognize Python 3.4, so none of them work for me. The common fallback plan is to install from source, but, I couldn't find the …