Teaching Python
Recently Learning Tree, a well-respected training company, invited me to teach Python for them. Last week I delivered my first course for them, their Advanced Python course A room full of people, nearly 500...
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How I’m learning French
Or, how to learn without studying Introduction I love learning, but I don’t like studying. Take for instance learning a foreign language. There are many ways to do this, including “studying”: studying the grammar,...
A couple of Python coding dojo’s
As Joe Wright puts it A Coding Dojo is a programming session based around a simple coding challenge. Programmers of different skill levels are invited to engage in deliberate practice as equals. The goal...
20 Rasperry Pi’s – one massive art installation
A couple of internationally renowned artists asked me for some help with their largest installation to date. As part of Hull’s City of Culture, Davy and Kristin McGuire created a large cardboard city and brought it...
Grafana, InfluxDB and Python, simple sample
I recently came across an interesting contract position which uses Grafana and InfluxDB. I’d had a play with ElasticSearch before, and done some work with KairosDB, so was already familiar with time series and...
Namepy step 7 – Bringing it all together
(This is part of the namepy project. Start at Namepy – on the shoulders of giants) Time to show some real results on a web page. Extend the API to show the letter scoring...
Namepy step 6 – Load the data into the database
(This is part of the namepy project. Start at Namepy – on the shoulders of giants) We will need the following data in the database: Name frequencies – baby names by year Scrabble™ letter...
Namepy step 5 – Flask-Restless
(This is part of the namepy project. Start at Namepy – on the shoulders of giants) We will need Angular to use an Ajax call to request the data from Flask, using a REST-style...
Namepy step 4 – PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy and Flask-SQLAlchemy
(This is part of the namepy project. Start at Namepy – on the shoulders of giants) I’ve used PostgreSQL for a number of different projects. It is the database of choice for Django developers,...
Namepy step 3 – Adding in Highcharts
(This is part of the namepy project. Start at Namepy – on the shoulders of giants) Highcharts is a JavaScript library for creating high quality interactive charts. It is not open source but requires...
