I have learned a lot over the past 2.5 years of my Python journey. What started out as a hobby during COVID-19 lock downs in 2020, has now become a major component of my professional workload. This article is designed to highlight the importance of the iterative process: write some code -> learn new stuff… Continue reading A Case Study in Refactoring Python: Clean Code Is Often Faster
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Code Challenge 44 – Marvel Data Analysis (Alicante PyChallengeDay)
By PyBites Team on 10 November 2017
Hi Pythonistas, this is a very special edition! Today, the 10th of November, we launch our first Live Code Challenge. We partnered up with Python Alicante and we will be hosting this code challenge with them at the University of Alicante. If you don’t happen to live in Alicante but do want to code today 10am-13pm CET you are more than welcome to join this Gitter channel.
Building a Karma Bot with Python and the Slack API
By Bob Belderbos on 25 June 2017
We love Slack! But what if we can make it even cooler? Imagine: you are geeking out with your fellow developers on Slack and you want to give them credit. Or you can write “stupidsubject–” and it automagically shows “stupidsubject’s karma decreased to -2”. Enter Karma Bot. This is nothing new but building one myself was a great learning exercise and a fun tool we use on our Slack now.
Code Challenge 11 – Generators for Fun and Profit – Review
By PyBites Team on 25 March 2017
It’s end of the week again so we review the code challenge of this week. It’s never late to sign up, just fork our challenges repo and start coding.
Code Challenge 03 – PyBites Blog Tag Analysis
By PyBites Team on 22 January 2017
Our new code challenge is up: PyBites blog tag analysis. This week you will parse our RSS feed looking for the most common tags and the ones we possibly should merge based on similarity ratio. Enjoy!