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Leonieke Paalvast

After my education as a primary school teacher, I followed a course in photographic design at the Dutch Fotovakschool. During this course, we had to create a portfolio website, where my interest in creating websites and apps was born. After working with HTML, CSS, and PHP (WordPress) as an autodidact, I came across a Python Humble Bundle, which sparked my interest in Python. After first getting started with the Pybites platform challenges, I followed the PDM program in early 2022, where I built a code snippets app (featured on the PDM page). I still enjoy working on projects and challenges to improve my Python programming. I enjoy the constant challenge of improving as a software developer.

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  • PyScript, a first exploration

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    After watching a PDM Code Clinic demo of PyScript the other day I got a lot of inspiration of things I could do with this new technology. I always liked working with HTML and CSS because you instantly see the results, something I miss working with pure Python. However now with PyScript I can combine the 3 making something beautiful that I can almost instantly see in the browser. And it also makes it very easy to share with others (as we’ll see towards the end of this article). But you might ask yourself: how does PyScript even work? In…

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    What I have learned from an open-source project

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    What preceded it I like the Carbon images that appear on Twitter from Pybites. Out of curiosity, I took a look at the code on GitHub, but it was pretty overwhelming and intimidating, so I quickly moved on to something I did “understand.” I often follow a tutorial or collect items I might need one day. I had so many Udemy courses that I was ashamed of it. Taking a course gives a sense of security: they take you by the hand, and you get the feeling that you are learning something because you can do the exercises they present.…