At PyCon 2013 this past week, I was fortunate to be able to pair up with Katie Cunningham to teach two 1-day workshops for young and aspiring programmers:

The Young Coder: Let's Learn Python

On the first day, we taught younger students aged approximately 10-12, and on the ...

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Following an amazing week at PyCon, I woke up this morning to discover that I'd lost a good friend, and that the Python community has lost one of its most brilliant minds.

Details are still unclear, but Malcolm Tredinnick passed away this past weekend, apparently as the result of ...

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The assignment: Find a way to implement batch image uploads in the Django admin using a drag and drop interface. For the record, we're using jQuery 1.8, and Bootstrap for some of the styling. Temporary files are being posted to S3, using boto (for more information: http://boto.s3.amazonaws.com/s3_tut.html), while the ...

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Python

print line numbers in a Python script:

 import sys frame = sys._getframe() print frame.f_lineno 

Python - date from Unix timestamp

 import datetime print(datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(int("1284101485")).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')) 

Django

get a list of all available subcommands:

 python manage.py help 

cmd line

Back on January 29th, PyLadies Austin held a micro workshop to cover Git/GitHub.

http://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-ATX/events/99435462/

It was a quick hands-on introduction to the core features of Git, as well as some of the things you can do with GitHub. The group was very small (just six people) and informal. It ...

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