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learnbyexample 2021-03-03 TL;DR: Small victories are more precious when you have nothing. Instead of burning through my savings, I'm now adding to it. The relief is priceless. It is worth it (for me)�� For my unique circumstances, the decision to write ebooks has brought me financial stability, improved my mental health and gives me a sense of satisfaction. This could've come from any of my previous attempts to earn money, but ebooks is what worked out for me. How it all started?�� I left my job in 2014 for various reasons. I didn't have any plans for the future, just knew...

By Team Commerce 2021-02-28 04:55:00 UTC Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over the Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language. The one he used in projects at work was overcomplicated and clunky, but he thought he could use some of its better features to create something more forgiving, flexible, and easier to read. Van Rossen developed his language mostly in his free time over the course of the next year, eventually deciding to name it "Python" after the British comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, whose published...

For many programmers, the hardest part isn’t the first few steps. It’s the leap from knowing the basics to writing elegant, expressive code. Python programmers often find this hill as difficult to climb as learners of more complex languages. Al Sweigart, author of the excellent Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python. The earlier book was aimed at absolute beginners who wanted to get started with Python and do practical, useful things out of the gate. The new book is in some respects a successor to Automate, but as Sweigart notes in his introduction, Beyond the Basic Stuff can follow up mos...

Gadget Book: Scratch 3 Programming Playground Here’s a book, published in the new year, for budding Gadget Masters wishing to learn how to code: Scratch 3 Programming Playground. After all, what do kids these days like more than gaming? Creating their own games with Scratch 3 – the latest version of the MIT-created drag-and-drop programming interface – the idea is that learning how to program shouldn’t be dry and dreary. Note that the latest version of Scratch features an updated interface, new programming blocks, and the ability to run on tablets and smartphones. The publishers, No S...