Topic Archive

Learning

  • Testing membership and empty strings

    J. Ryan Hall

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    I was working on one of the exercises on the Pybites platform (Bite 29) and encountered a situation I didn’t understand. I needed to check a set of inputs to see if they were alphanumeric or not as part of the solution to the exercise. I succeeded in all but one test, but I couldn’t tell why one failed so I researched why that was and would like to share it. Note – if you haven’t completed the Bite, the solution might be partially spoiled below so maybe you want to do the exercise before reading on. Membership testing is…

  • Become a more effective learner with Russell Helmstedter

    PyBites Team

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    Listen now: This week we have Russell Helmstedter (@rhelmstedter) on the show to talk about a book about learning that will blow your mind: Learn Better We talk through the six facets of learning the book discusses: Value Target Develop Extend Relate Rethink … and link them back to Pybites, specifically our platform.  Expect a lot of useful tips that will increase the important meta skill of learning which will of course help you become a better developer as well! Links / resources: – The article that got Russell on this book– Learn Better book– Russell’s extensive notes (kudos, thanks!)– Our platform that embraces a lot of what’s discussed…

  • A super simple Zettelkasten note taking system

    Bob Belderbos

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    Yesterday I found this amazing gist that got me running with Zettelkasten in no time 💪 Check out this short YouTube video where the author demos this workflow: As the Zen of Python wisely taught us: Simple is better than complex – and this is so true for what can easily be an overwhelming task of putting a note taking system in place, specially the Zettelkasten. In case you’re not familiar with Zettelkasten, read up on it here – definition quote: A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing. It has hypertextual features to make a web of…

  • What I have learned from an open-source project

    Leonieke Paalvast

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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.…

  • Learn by building, how we built our own collaboration tool in Django

    PyBites Team

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    Listen now: In this episode we tell the story about Pybites CMS, our new powertool we use to better streamline our business. We tell why we built it, how it was an opportunity for Julian to brush up his coding skills, how we applied the PDM philosophy of learning by building, scratching your own itch. Join our Facebook group here (live training coming soon!): https://www.facebook.com/groups/pybites And if you want to take your Python and dev skills to the next level, check out our PDM coaching program here:https://pybit.es/catalogue/the-pdm-program/ We could not find the mentioned article about shipping fast, but we certainly have…

  • Are you overwhelmed by tutorial paralysis?

    Bob Belderbos

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    Tutorial Paralysis, information overload, hoarding and never completing online courses (How large are your Udemy and Coursera libraries?)… This is the pain we’re increasingly hearing about in conversations with developers and it’s more common than you may realise. It’s real, it’s crippling and it can make you feel like you’re going nowhere. Even if you do manage to complete a course, is it what you needed? What next? Another course? Then what? The reality is that nothing beats actual coding and implementation. This is where the real learning and growth happens. It may be easier said than done, but the best time to do…

  • From Webscraper to Wordcloud

    Cedric Sambre

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    After going through the web scraping learning paths, I decided to get my hands dirty and apply my freshly gathered knowledge on a real life project. I explain some difficulties you might encounter while scraping and I also show some libraries that can help you visualizing data you have obtained.