Welcome back to the Pybites podcast! Watch here: Listen here: In this insightful conversation with software developer, PDM-er, and entrepreneur Charles Carriere, we delve into his journey of launching personal projects, overcoming imposter syndrome, and mastering Python. He shares his experience of creating a Django app in our PDM program around fusion energy, aggregating and summarizing (using AI!) articles, and his future plan of creating a job board on the site as well. Super cool! He emphasizes the importance of launching projects, big or small, to truly understand what you’re doing and to learn from each challenge. He also discusses…
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Welcome back to the Pybites podcast! Watch here: Or listen here: In this podcast episode, Peter Lynch, a software developer, discusses his journey into web development and his entrepreneurial interests. He shares his experience of transitioning from a corporate job to pursuing his passion for building his own projects. Peter emphasizes the importance of networking and building connections in finding job opportunities. He also highlights the need to embrace discomfort and continuously challenge oneself for personal and professional growth. Additionally, Peter talks about his side projects and the motivation behind them, including his iOS app that generates Apple Watch faces…
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Watch us here: Or listen here: In this podcast episode we discuss 9 tips to build confidence as a developer, drawing from our own experience + coaching 100+ (aspiring) Python developers. We cover the importance of starting with small, achievable projects, breaking down complex problems into smaller tasks, and practicing regularly. Additionally, we emphasize the need for a strong mindset and learning from mistakes, as well as celebrating small victories and reflecting on personal progress. To further improve, we suggest contributing to open source, building a portfolio, and seeking guidance and support through coaching. As usual, we also discuss our…
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Watch here: Or listen here: In this week’s episode we talk with Dane about packaging and the rich ecosystem of Python tooling. Dane is the author of Publishing Python Packages, a new Manning book that just came out. In our conversation we dive into some of the specific challenges and opportunities that come with packaging Python code. One of the things that we discuss is the backstory behind Dane’s book on packaging. Dane talks about how he scratched his own itch by open sourcing some packaging code that he had developed at work. He then began to explore some of…
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Teaching packaging by building a Python package
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1 min readListen here Or watch here (recommended because there will be code!) Welcome back to our podcast. In this week’s episode we look at Python packaging. I was teaching this on our weekly PDM Code Clinic call and we ended up building quite a useful Pybites Open Source tool. Introducing pybites-search, a command line tool to search our content (articles, Bite exercises, podcast episodes, youtube videos and tips). We look at how to build a package and some of the code + design that went into pybites-search and how open sourcing this is a double win: our PDM bot project can…
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8 tips for succeeding in the software industry
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1 min readWatch here: Listen here: Welcome back to the podcast. Today we share 8 tips in response to a question that we were tagged on @ Twitter: As always we also discuss wins and books. Links: Mentioned books: And last but not least thanks for all your feedback 😍🙏 You can reach out to us through our Slack or send an email to info at pybit dot es.
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Listen here: Or watch here: Welcome back to the Pybites podcast. This week we have a very special guest: Blaise Pabon. We talk about his background in software development, how he started with Python and his journey with us in PDM. We also pick his brains about why Python is such a great language, the importance of open source and his active role in it, including a myriad of developer communities he actively takes part in. Lastly, we talk about the books we’re currently reading. Links:– Vitrina: a portfolio development kit for DevOps– Boston Python hosts several online meetings a week– The mother of all…
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Learning to code is a lot like learning a language
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4 min readThis content was first sent as part of our friends email list, you can subscribe here to get this type of content early and fresh every week … Let me tell you the story of how I effectively learned foreign languages (there are a lot of parallels with how I became a developer). I was not a good language learning when I was young, heck I even flunked 6th grade in part because my English was terrible! But being bad at something does not mean it’s game over, I was using the wrong “software”. My approach was flawed: I tried…
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Watch here: Or listen here: This week we have Jim Hodapp on our podcast. We talk about his career journey going from software engineer + manager to full-time developer coach, some of the tactics he uses with his clients, and why coaching is a powerful tool for software engineers. Then we pivot to a more technical discussion about Rust, his passion for the language, why it’s an interesting language to consider, also for Python developers, and to his developer community Rust Never Sleeps. We hope you enjoy this interview and that it inspires (and challenges) you to keep learning new things and…
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Teachers aren’t the only ones who teach. As a developer you’re expected to do so too …
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4 min readThis article appeared first as a Pybites email. To receive this kind of content first, subscribe to our weekly newsletter. For a long time, I thought I should not make mistakes when teaching other developers. I would hide behind slides because they were “hardcoded”, safe, or I’d do a lot of editing of my coding videos, they had to be “perfect”, right? Live code, heck no, not me! But I was wrong! About a year ago I pivoted and now I teach a lot by live coding (in group setting I mean; I already did this consistently and successfully with…