Freelance Python Developer
I have used pygame for various personal and professional projects, and delivered a pygame workshop at EuroPython 2019. At the same conference I met an executive editor for the Springer Science and Business Media...
The organisers of PyBerlin, a large regular Python meetup, asked me to speak about the Python-based system which I use for creating training videos. The title of the talk was ‘Python: my favourite Swiss...
My first training video, Game Development with PyGame, involved a lot of editing. I have seen coding demonstrations at conferences, with the presenter typing and explaining the code at the same time. They make...
Springer Science and Business Media Company, through their APress publishing arm, originally approached me about writing a book for them. I suggested creating a training video for them instead. From this I have now...
This was a very interesting project. The client had a ‘multi objective evolutionary algorithm’ implemented in Python. It tries to find an optimal solution to a complex problem by starting with some random solutions...
Skiller Whale, an innovative training company for development teams, asked me to help them develop their advanced Python training materials. I created course outlines, 13 exercises and 25 code samples on multi threading, multi...
You might think that moving some data around from A to B should be simple. Unfortunately it is not that straight forward. Having done a number of ETL projects, I’ve had to deal with:...
Python is an excellent language for taking control of your computer and performing some of the more tedious tasks. I recently used it to automate how I create Python training videos and have just...
Python is an easy-to-learn yet powerful language, and comes with a wealth of libraries. It is often used to create simple scripts. You run these on the command line, giving it any parameters it...
Python is a simple but powerful language, and comes with a wealth of libraries. It took just 10 lines of code and the Turtle library to create the black line in the image above....
Python is a simple but powerful language, and comes with a wealth of libraries. The chart above took just 9 lines of Python. All the hard work is done by the Bokeh library. It...
Hi !
My name is Coen de Groot.
I help my clients make better use of their data, give their customers a better experience, write better Python code and other worthwhile stuff.
Let’s talk. I would love to explore the opportunity to help your company too