See "The Old Old Days -- ca. 1968" for my first exposure to an actual computer. Nothing about Python there. But. It's what motivated me to get started learning to code -- I was fascinated by games that involved randomization. Games with cards or dice.
After filling in a little background, I …
more ...As the olds do, I reminisce sometimes. Not often. Let me rewind the memory tapes a back to 1967 or '68.
(What a dumb metaphor for folks who have never used serial storage.)
This isn't -- directly -- about Python. But it may help folks who live at the edge of programming …
more ...Here are some links to reviews: https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/1801077266/ref=cm_cr_unknown?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=one_star&reviewerType=all_reviews&pageNumber=1#reviews-filter-bar
These are reviews of Python Object-Oriented Programming: Build robust and maintainable object-oriented …
more ...Apple's freebie tools -- Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Garage Band, etc. -- are wonderful things. I really like Numbers. I'm tolerant of Pages. I've used Pages to write books and publish them to the Apple Bookstore. (Shameless Plug: Pivot to Python.)
These tools have a significant problem. Protobuf.
Once upon a …
See Spreadsheets, COBOL, and schema-driven file processing, etc. for some history on this project.
Also, see Stingray-Reader for the current state of this effort.
(This started almost 20 years ago, I've been refining and revising a lot.)
Python is very purely driven by the idea that …
As an author with many books on Python, I'm captivated by people's hot takes on why Python is so epically bad. Really Bad. Uselessly Bad. Profoundly Broken. etc.
I'll provide some hints on topics that get repeated a lot. If you really need to write a blog post about how …
more ...I'll get to legacy software. First, however, some backstory on observability.
Sailors will sometimes create "Float Plans". Like aircraft flight plans, they have an itinerary to make it slightly easier to find us when something goes wrong. Unlike airspace, which is tightly controlled by the FAA, the seas are more-or-less …
more ...This is a problem folks new to Python have, and sometimes can't articulate that they have it.
They don't know which package is the "right" one to use. Tox vs. Nox. Click vs. Argparse vs. getopts? What's the "best" choice?
See http://books.apple.com/us/book/id1586977675
The Python Programming language is a deep topic. This book provides focused guidance on installing Python, creating virtual enivironments and using Jupyter Lab to build foundational skills in using Python. The book covers many built-in data types. There are two small case …
more ...Check out this list of questions on Stack Overflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bpython%5D+whitespace+syntax
About 10% of these are really just complaints about Python's syntax. Almost every Stack Overflow question on Python's use of syntactic whitespace is really just a complaint.
Here's today's example: "Python without …
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