Python Beginners Completed! - File Input/Output

Finally we’ve finished the Python Beginners über-series in our Club. In total the Club has 118 videos over 15 series all focused on teaching new Python skills. Now we’re done with Python beginners we’ll be expanding our scope.

In just under 30 minutes in the File I/O Tutorial I cover reading text files, writing textfiles, using binary files (with Python Imaging Library as the example) and persisting data with the pickle module.

Now that we’re finished with the raw episodes and our Learning Paths are usable I’m tying together all the Python videos (free+Club) into paths-of-learning that teach you about topics including:

  • Starting to Program with Python
  • Getting Python Installed
  • Walking through fully-written programs (long step-by-step series)
  • Python development environments and tools
  • Python GUI development
  • Django
  • Web-application development

The learning-paths, and learning how to use them effectively, are very much a work in progress. As ever we welcome any and all constructive feedback.

Once we’re done with the Python learning paths we’ll start to tie together all the other topics in ShowMeDo (heck - we have well over 1000 screencast tutorials now!) to make learning much easier.

Python Beginners - File Input/Output

Finally we’ve finished the Python Beginners über-series in our Club.  In total the Club has 118 videos over 15 series all focused on teaching new Python skills.  Now we’re done with Python beginners we’ll be expanding our scope.

In just under 30 minutes in the File I/O Tutorial I cover reading text files, writing textfiles, using binary files (with Python Imaging Library as the example) and persisting data with the pickle module.

Now that we’re finished with the raw episodes and our Learning Paths code is finished (it is hidden still…but not for much longer), I’ll now be tieing together all the Python videos (free+Club) into paths-of-learning that teach you about topics including:

  • Starting to Program with Python
  • Getting Python Installed
  • Walking through fully-written programs (long step-by-step series)
  • Python development environments and tools
  • Python GUI development
  • Django
  • Web-application development

Once we’re done with the Python learning paths we’ll start to tie together all the other topics in ShowMeDo (heck - we have over 1000 screencast tutorials now!) to make learning much easier.

Visual Parallel Computing Using Python-based VISION/HPC

We may not know much about the future of computer programming, but one thing we do know is that it is parallel and the biggest challenge facing software programmers and hardware designers is how to exploit all those multiple cores out there.

So Unpingco’s new Python series is both fascinating and prescient. Oh and useful too.

The chief impediment to widespread usage of parallel computing is the difficulty in programming HPCs. Furthermore, most users work from a Windows PC so that learning UNIX as a prerequisite to parallel programming is a further obstruction. What is needed is a smooth workflow that simplifies both the programming task and the remote execution management. VISION/HPC is a Python-based, drag-and-drop visual-programming environment that reduces sophisticated programming tasks to dropping and connecting icons in a GUI flowchart…

`[1402] Introducing VISION/HPC‘, a video-tutorial by unpingco, part of the series `Visual Parallel Computing Using Python-based VISION/HPC

`[1403] An Example Using the Imaging Library‘, a video-tutorial by unpingco, part of the series `Visual Parallel Computing Using Python-based VISION/HPC

`[1404] An Example Using Matplotlib Library‘, a video-tutorial by unpingco, part of the series `Visual Parallel Computing Using Python-based VISION/HPC
.

Photo-editing with GIMP

Rede’s wondeful series shows how to repair old photographs with the GIMP graphic-editor. Check it out even if you haven’t got any old photographs to repair - you’ll learn a whole lot of GIMP anyway. And the photos are lovely too ;)

`[1399] Enhance A Framed Photo With GIMP Part 1‘, a video-tutorial by Rede, part of the series `Repairing Photos With GIMP

`[1400] Enhance A Framed Photo With GIMP Part 2‘, a video-tutorial by Rede, part of the series `Repairing Photos With GIMP

More C++ video-tutorials

Yiroel’s huge C++ beginners set continues to grow. This is a fantastic resource for starting programmers in what is a notoriously tricky language. Compared to a scripting language like Python, C++ makes much greater demands on the programmer, with a much more complex syntax and work-flow. So if you could do with a bit of assistence, check out these vids and leave some useful comments ;)

`C++ Tutorials - Absolute n00b spoonfeed

OpenOffice 3.1 Writer Tutorial

Do you want to learn OpenOffice Writer?  OOo Writer is the open-source world’s answer to Microsoft Word - it is pretty much feature compatible in every respect, it works the same way and you can edit and share .doc files just as if you were using Word.  You can even open older .doc files that Word itself has trouble working with!

The series is called OpenOffice Writer 3.1 for Microsoft Word Users, it has 11 episodes lasting for 45 minutes.  The episodes easily bring you up-to-speed on the following:

  1. Series Overview in 4 minutes (OpenOffice 3.1 for Word users) [FREE]
  2. Installing OpenOffice 3.1 on Windows XP [FREE]
  3. Working with Word (.doc) files
  4. Working with an OpenDocument Format (.odt) file
  5. Help! Manuals, Forums and Mail lists
  6. Basic Formatting (bold, italic etc)
  7. Exporting to PDF, HTML, MediaWiki
  8. Printing
  9. Word-completion
  10. Find and Replace, Undo
  11. Spell Checker

This series is part of our Club, you’ll need to buy membership to get full access but the first two episodes are free.  The Club contains over 10 hours of extra videos, mostly focused right now on teaching you Python Programming.  More OpenOffice videos will follow.

We have a Learning Path for OpenOffice tutorials, you’ll find them here.  This Path will take you through all of our tutorials for OOo (both free and Club).

Python 411 podcast interview - thanks Ron!

Ron Stephens, creator of the rather excellent Python411 podcast series was good enough to interview Kyran and myself a couple of weeks back: An interview with the founders of ShowMeDo: May 25, 2009

We cover the history of how we started ShowMeDo with Python screencasts, Kyran’s innovative Learning Paths (which caught MIT’s eye), the special learn-Python-quickly tutorials in our Club, our authors and the 1,000 educational screencasts we’ve built between us to date.

We also discuss how you can share your own knowledge with 100,000 global viewers and end with a light chat about Python 3.0.

Ron has a long list of podcast interviews, check them out if you want to know about topics like Django, Python Visualisation and the Python Learning Foundation.  He also lists many Python tutorials across the web, they are great short-cuts to find what you need.

Python Beginners - Club Collection Takes Shape

Have finally got round to giving the Club videos a bit of presentational structure following Ian’s last file I/O series in his huge Beginner Programming With Python.

Ian’s final series in Beginners brings the club total to 118 videos, 15 video-series and over 10 hours of Pythonic video demonstration <phew>.

Ian’s beginner-sets were conceived as a whole, from introducing the look and feel of Python to covering, in quite a bit of detail, the general Python programming elements. With Lucas Holland’s introduction to the Python standard libraries we have a nice round number of 50 videos, setting clubbers up nicely for the other club videos and some of the intermediate/advanced Showmedo Python series.

Scientific and Parallel Computing Using IPython

Wearing my research-scientist’s hat I can honestly assert that Python’s strength in scientific programming is one of its glories, and maybe less appreciated than it should be. That makes series like unpingo’s
Scientific and parallel computing using IPython pure gold for its target audience. Combining the power and flexibility of the enhanced IPython interpreter with some of the industrial strength Python scientific, numeric and graphing libraries creates a superbly flexible and efficient scientific programming set-up. Check out these vids, rather superb as ever.

The series has five videos:

  • Introducing and setting up IPython on a Windows PC
  • Getting around and using the IPython interpreter
  • Using on-line documentation for a short case study on computing integrals
  • Subclassing and using the Python language for scientific computing
  • Using doctest and docstrings in customized classes

    Videos Rolling In

    Neil Dickenson’s fantastic Assembly Programming Series continues apace, focussing on the stack.

    A nice little video from Dai on using the Nautilus file-browser to do Linux admin tasks.

    In just over a minute Ian shows how to install the increasingly necessary firefox adblock plugin. Very slickly done as always. As ever, adblocking is subject to a little debate. The garish, obnoxious ads that destroy ones browsing experience are self-defeating anyway so blocking them isn’t an issue, but more benign, relatively peaceable text-based ads should probably be allowed through if there’s any chance it will help maintain the flow of quality content.

    Some really nice 3D modelling and texturing videos from Horst and Leo, using the rather cool Wings3D open-source modeller, a simpler alternative to the rather more heavyweight Blender. As ever Horst and Leo helpfully provide an English-subtitled version.

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