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If you’ve recently downloaded Python onto your computer, then you may have noticed a new program on your machine called IDLE. You might be wondering, “What is this program doing on my computer? I didn’t download that!” While you may not have downloaded this program on your own, IDLE comes bundled with every Python installation. It’s there to help you get started with the language right out of the box. In this course, you’ll learn how to work in Python […]
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In December 2021, the fourth Python steering council was elected, as usual with a mix of new and returning members. Python’s release-cycle circle of life kept spinning, with new iterations of both Python 3.10 and the upcoming Python 3.11 released. At the same time, the popular Python 3.6 reached end-of-life and will no longer be supported. Amid this flurry of activity, developers from all over had some fun over the holidays by solving the annual Advent of Code puzzles. Let’s […]
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If you’re writing high-performance code, what matters is how many CPU instructions you run. Right? That’s what I learned long ago in school, anyway, when I took algorithms and data structures classes. The basic assumption was that reading or writing to memory took a small, constant amount of time, and so you could focus on how many operations were being done. This was so fundamental to how we were taught that we didn’t even have to write real code: pseudo-code […]
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In this four-part tutorial series, you’re building a social network with Django that you can showcase in your portfolio. This project is strengthening your understanding of relationships between Django models and showing you how to use forms so that users can interact with your app and with each other. You’re also making your site look good by using the Bulma CSS framework. In the previous part of this series, you added functionality so that users can create dweets on the […]
Read moreManaging multiple Python projects with their own third-party packages can get complicated. It is best practice to use a virtual environment to sandbox the requirements for each of your projects. Enter pipenv, the official recommended package management tool for Python. It handles both installation and virtual environments to help you manage your Python dependencies. In this course, you’ll learn about: How to use pip to install a package Where Python puts packages by default How to use pipenv to create […]
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In this four-part tutorial series, you’re building a social network with Django that you can showcase in your portfolio. This project is strengthening and demonstrating your understanding of relationships between Django models and showing you how to use forms so that users can interact with your app and with each other. You’re also making your site look good by using the CSS framework Bulma. In the previous part of this tutorial series, you built templates and views for displaying a […]
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In this four-part tutorial series, you’re building a social network with Django that you can showcase in your portfolio. This project will strengthen your understanding of relationships between Django models and show you how to use forms so that users can interact with your app and with each other. You’ll also make your Django front end look good by using the Bulma CSS framework. In the first part, you extended the Django User model to add profile information that allows […]
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For many years, CentOS provided a free, binary-compatible version of RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). But as of January 2022, CentOS 8 has reached its end-of-life, even as RHEL 8 will still be supported for many years. So if you’ve been using centos:8 as your base Docker image, what should you use now? Motivation: a stable, long-term-support base image RHEL 8 was released in May 2019, will continue to get full support until May 2024, and security updates until May 2029. […]
Read moreYou wrote a Python script that you’re proud of, and now you want to show it off to the world. But how? Most people won’t know what to do with your .py file. Converting your script into a Python web application is a great solution to make your code usable for a broad audience. In this course, you’ll learn how to go from a local Python script to a fully deployed Flask web application that you can share with the […]
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In this four-part tutorial series, you’ll build a social network with Django that you can showcase in your portfolio. This project will strengthen your understanding of relationships between Django models and show you how to use forms so that users can interact with your app and with each other. You’ll also learn how to make your site look good by using the Bulma CSS framework. After finishing the first part of this series, you’ll move on to the second part, […]
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