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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 […]

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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 […]