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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. […]

  • 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 […]

  • From Webscraper to Wordcloud

    Cedric Sambre

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    7 min read

    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.