Quiz: Qt Designer and Python: Build Your GUI Applications Faster

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 10 QuestionsBy Joseph Peart Share In this quiz, you’ll test your knowledge of Qt Designer and Python: Build Your GUI Applications Faster. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how Qt Designer turns visual designs into .ui files, how layout managers control widget geometry, how signals and slots connect user actions to your code, and how to load .ui files into a PyQt application with pyuic5 or uic.loadUi(). The quiz contains 10 questions and there is no […]

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Quiz: How to Use OpenCode for AI-Assisted Python Coding

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 9 QuestionsBy Joseph Peart Share In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Use OpenCode for AI-Assisted Python Coding. By working through these questions, you’ll revisit how to install OpenCode, connect it to an AI provider, configure project context with AGENTS.md, and take advantage of features like mid-session model switching and built-in language servers. If you’d like a broader look at AI-assisted Python development, you can also follow the Python Coding With AI learning path. […]

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Quiz: Python & APIs: A Winning Combo for Reading Public Data

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 12 QuestionsBy Joseph Peart Share In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python & APIs: A Winning Combo for Reading Public Data. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how APIs send requests and responses, how the requests library works, what status codes and headers mean, and how to handle authentication, pagination, and rate limits in your own code. Good luck! The quiz contains 12 questions and there is no time limit. You’ll get 1 point […]

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Quiz: Python Application Layouts: A Reference

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 9 QuestionsBy Joseph Peart Share In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python Application Layouts: A Reference. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to structure one-off scripts, installable packages, larger applications with internal packages, and web projects built with Django or Flask. A dependable starting layout helps you avoid coder’s block so you can focus on writing code instead of figuring out where it should live. The quiz contains 9 questions and there is […]

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Use Codex CLI to Enhance Your Python Projects

After watching this video course, you’ll be able to use Codex CLI to add features to a Python project directly from your terminal. Codex CLI is an AI-powered coding assistant that runs inside your terminal. It understands your project structure, reads your files, and proposes multi-file changes using natural language instructions. Instead of copying code from a browser or relying on an IDE plugin, you’ll use Codex CLI to implement a real feature in a multi-file Python project directly from […]

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Microsoft at NSDI 2026: Advances in large-scale networked systems

Large-scale networked systems underpin cloud computing, AI, and distributed applications and services. The USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation 2026 (opens in new tab) (NSDI ’26) is a leading forum where researchers and practitioners share new research, insights, and advances in the design and operation of these systems. Microsoft is proud to support NSDI ’26 as a returning sponsor, reflecting our ongoing commitment to advancing systems  

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Quiz: Data Management With Python, SQLite, and SQLAlchemy

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 11 QuestionsBy Joseph Peart Share In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the tutorial Data Management With Python, SQLite, and SQLAlchemy. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how Python, SQLite, and SQLAlchemy work together to give your programs reliable data storage. You’ll also check your grasp of primary and foreign keys, SQL operations, and the SQLAlchemy models that let you work with your data as Python objects. The quiz contains 11 questions and there is […]

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A New Python Packaging Council and Other News for May 2026

April gave Python developers a new governing body. PEP 772 was accepted on April 16, creating a dedicated Python Packaging Council that will make binding decisions about packaging standards and tools. After years of informal coordination through the Python Packaging Authority (PyPA), the packaging community now has its own elected five-member council with authority comparable to the Steering Council. On the release side, Python 3.15.0 alpha 8 dropped with a refreshed JIT delivering 6–7 percent speedups on x86-64 Linux and […]

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How to build scalable web apps with OpenAI’s Privacy Filter

OpenAI released Privacy Filter on the Hub this week: an open-source personally-identifiable information (PII) detector that labels text across eight categories in a single forward pass over a 128k context. Model card. We spent a few hours building with it and landed on three apps that each reveals a different slice of what it can do. Document Privacy Explorer: drop in a PDF or DOCX, read the document back with every PII span highlighted in place. Image Anonymizer: upload an […]

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