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Virtual Environments in Python Made Easy
Web
By Oltjano Terpollari, Daniel Diaz,
The best and easiest way to set up a virtual environment for Python is with pip, virtualenv, and a simple bash script. Here’s how.
Using Python to Parse Spreadsheet Data
Programming
By Shaumik Daityari,
Working with large web apps often involves creating and parsing spreadsheets. Learn how to handle and parse these files using Python.
A Beginner’s Guide to Keras: Digit Recognition in 30 Minutes
Web
By Shaumik Daityari,
Want to create an artificial neural network? Learn step by step how to create a model for recognizing handwritten digits.
Face Detection and Recognition with Keras
Web
By Shaumik Daityari,
Interested in face detection and recognition? Learn how to detect faces in images, extract facial features and match them in different images.
How to Redesign the Django Admin with Bootstrap
Web
By Lucero del Alba,
Lucero del Alba walks through how to restyle the Django admin interface to match the look and feel of the rest of your site, with the help of Bootstrap.
How to Prototype a Web App with Django and Vue.js
JavaScript
By Lucero del Alba,
Learn how use Django and Vue.js to prototype a custom, responsive and reactive web application with a full-featured back office site to manage the content.
How Four Programmers Got Their First Python Jobs
Programming
By Joshua Kraus,
Four Python programmers explain how they got their Python programming jobs, with tips and advice on how you can land your next programming job.
How To Create a Twitter App and API Interface Via Python
Programming
By Michael Grogan,
Michael explains how to use a Python API to connect to Twitter, and download tweets, follower lists, multiple tweets at once, and customize searches.
Python Web Applications: The basics of WSGI
Programming
By Adam Bard,
Adam introduces the the basics of the Web Server Gateway Interface, which lies beneath every Python web framework, showing how to code your first WSGI app.
Python on the Web: Why Frameworks Like Django Are Hot
Programming
By Shaumik Daityari,
Shaumik Daityari looks at what makes Python suited to web development, and why it's the go-to language for an increasing number of web developers.
Web Scraping for Beginners
Programming
By Shaumik Daityari,
Shaumik introduces web scraping, and how you can create your own web scraping scripts for collecting data from the web.
5 Common Problems Faced by Python Beginners
Programming
By Shaumik Daityari,
Shaumik Daityari identifies some of the common pain points for Python beginners and presents elegant solutions for dealing with them.
Watch: Working with Lambda Functions in Python
Programming
By Brett Romero,
Take a sneak peak at one of our lesson in our Python course. In this video, you'll explore how to create anonymous functions in Python, lambda functions.
Managing Data Storage with Blockchain and BigchainDB
Programming
By Chris Ward,
Chris Ward looks at BigchainDB and how it uses the Blockchain in a new and innovative way — for data storage!
Quick Tip: Understanding the Yield Keyword in Python
Programming
By Abder-Rahman Ali,
Abder-Rahman explores uses of "yield" in Python, such as resuming execution where a function exited, iterating over a sequence, and working with iterables.
A Tour of Python Collections
Programming
By Brett Romero,
Brett Romero provides an introductory guide to Python collections, covering the various functions of lists, strings, mappings and sets.
Manipulating Images with the Python Imaging Library
Programming
By Abder-Rahman Ali,
A. Hasan introduces the Python Imaging Library and Pillow, showing how to read and resize images, convert to grayscale and change image file formats.
Watch: Combining Dynamic Strings with Python
Programming
By Brett Romero,
Dynamic and changeable parts combined with string. This is what concatenation is. Let's jump in and see how its done with Python.
Deploying a Django App with mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 14.04
Programming
By Shaumik Daityari,
In this article, Shaumik Daityari will teach you how to deploy a Django applicaiton for production using mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 14.04.
Video: Conditional Flows in Python
Programming
By Brett Romero,
In this short video, I'll look at how Python handles control flow. This consist of if/else combinations along with elif.
Building a Simple REST API for Mobile Applications
Mobile
By Mark Wong,
Mark Wong shows us how to create a simple REST API using Python to feed data to an iOS application.
Which Code Editors Do Pythonists Use?
Programming
By Abder-Rahman Ali,
Abder-Rahman takes a look at the most popular code editors used by Python experts, and explains how to set up the most popular: Sublime Text
Flask for the Masses
Programming
By Mladen Martincevic,
Flask is a microframework for Python, the opposite of the giant that is Django. It makes it super easy to get started with Python. See how in this tutorial!
Using Python Templates with Jinja and Google App Engine
Programming
By Brett Romero,
Learnable tutor Brett Romero demonstrates how to use Jinja templating along with the Google App Engine
Create a Kid-summoning IoT Device with Spark OS
Mobile
By Jen Looper,
Spark OS is a new operating system designed to make IoT development easier. We take a look at how it works and what it can do.
2 Cool Things You Can Do with the Facebook Graph API
Programming
By Shaumik Daityari,
We use Facebook's Graph API to help us with a Facebook contest and mass-responding to tons of birthday wishes made on your Facebook timeline.
Single Sign-On (SSO) Explained
Programming
By Shaumik Daityari,
Using Disqus and another website as an example, this post describes the process of integrating single sign-on, or SSO.
Powering the Web with Python Web Frameworks
Programming
By Greg Bates,
Read Powering the Web with Python Web Frameworks and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.