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One-day birthday sale — on July 14th, get 47% off my courses, books, and subscriptions
Today is my birthday! To celebrate, I’m offering a one-day 47% sale on many of my products: My upcoming live classes (on functional Python, advanced Python objects, and decorators) are
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Announcing: Three live Python courses
If you’re like many of the Python developers I know, the basics are easy for you: Strings, lists, tuples, dictionaries, functions, and even objects roll off of your fingers and
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Raw strings to the rescue!
Whenever I teach Python courses, most of my students are using Windows. And thus, when it comes time to do an exercise, I inevitably end up with someone who does
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Announcing: Weekly Python Exercise
I have a great job. Really, I’m quite fortunate: For many years, I’ve spent nearly every day helping engineers at some of the world’s largest and best companies (including Apple,
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Boolean indexing in NumPy and Pandas: A free e-mail course for aspiring data scientists
For nearly two years, I have been teaching my introductory course in data science and machine learning to companies around the world. On the one hand, participants are excited by
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2+2 might be 4, but what is True+True?
In Python, we know that we can add two integers together: >> 2 + 2 4 And of course, we can add two strings together: >> ‘a’ + ‘b’ ‘ab’
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Python function brain transplants
What happens when we define a function in Python? The “def” keyword does two things: It creates a function object, and then assigns a variable (our function name) to that
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The five-minute guide to setting up a Jupyter notebook server
Nearly every day, I teach a course in Python. And nearly every day, I thus use the Jupyter notebook: I do my live-coding demos in it, answer students’ questions using
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A short Python class puzzle
Here’s a short Python puzzle that I use in many of my on-site courses, which I have found to be useful and instructive: Given the following short snippet of Python,
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Data science + machine learning + Python course in Shanghai
Data science is changing our lives in dramatic ways, and just about every company out there wants to take advantage of the insights that we can gain from analyzing our