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Quick Python Book is Manning’s Deal of the Day April 12 12 Apr 2013 | 08:38 am
The Quick Python Book is Manning’s Deal of the Day April 12! That’s right, starting at midnight EDT, April 12, my book, The Quick Python Book, 2nd ed will be Manning’s Deal of the Day. What does that ...
Another Quick Python Deal 20 Jan 2013 | 07:11 am
Just a quick note that the Quick Python Book, 2nd edition will be Manning Publications deal of the day Saturday, May 18. Here’s the official scoop: Deal of the Day : Half off my book The Quick Pyth....
Number 2 for 2012 1 Jan 2013 | 03:46 am
I’ve already put this on the social networks, but I can’t resist noting that The Quick Python Book, 2nd ed, AKA my book, was the second best selling book for Manning Publications in 2012. And I can’t ...
A few changes 27 Oct 2012 | 01:26 am
This is a completely non-Python related post, but it probably makes sense to post this here, just for the casual observer. There have been some changes in my personal life that may make things confusi...
Turtlelab – A Simple Environment for Teaching Python 18 Jun 2012 | 04:44 am
I started teaching Python to 8th graders years ago. We were already teaching it to all of our 9th graders, so I talked the 8th grade computer teacher into it (pretty easy since a) she was as very smar...
How Not to Get a (Python) Job – a rant 28 May 2012 | 02:29 pm
How Not to Get a (Python) Job – a rant At PyCon 2011, Brian Moloney (of Imaginary Landscape here in Chicago) gave a talk titled “How to Get A Python Job”. It wasn’t really so much about getting speci...
ISTE, Python and Robots 29 Jun 2011 | 12:18 am
Monday I was at the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) conference in Philadelphia to give a version of the same talk I gave at PyCon in March, talking about my experiences teachi...
PyCon Poster Session will be Amazing 24 Jan 2011 | 03:57 pm
As the poster session chair, I’ve been watching poster proposals come in for PyCon over the past several weeks. I was very happy with the posters last year, but this year we have a truly amazing colle...
Not Python – AppInventor doesn’t quite do Life 11 Jan 2011 | 10:00 am
AppInventor Test Drive I’ve always been sort of fascinated by drag and drop programming schemes – the sort of thing where you use little graphical blocks to represent code structures. The simplicity ...
Python in the news 12 Dec 2010 | 06:10 pm
How we got a Python story published This past Monday, the unlikely occurred. The morning newspaper here in Fort Wayne, Indiana ran a small article on high school kids using Python. That’s unlikely fo...
