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I have created a third video for our new 5 Minutes with Python series. My First 5 Minutes with Python talks about how:

“I’m often asked ‘what are the resources and tutorials like for Python?’ so here I try to answer the questions you might ask in your first 5 minutes with Python.”

Add to this series? If you are interested in adding your own 5 Minutes with Python, get in touch and we’ll have a chat.

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Jeff Rush (PSF) has a second video in our new 5 Minutes with Python series. A Demonstration of ReStructuredText gives:

“A quick look at a style of marking up plaintext called “ReStructuredText” with hotkeys from the Emacs text editor to view the result as HTML, PDF and slides.”

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Kirby Urner has started a new Python series entitled Python for Math Teachers. Kirby’s first video is Getting Started:

“Let’s use IDLE to define a few functions, including the Euclid’s Algorithm for the GCD. Atop the GCD we’ll build other functions for listing totatives of N (positives relatively prime to N) and the totient of N (the number of said totatives). We’re using the default Python shell to introduce new math ideas (”math through programming”).”

His second is Looking Ahead:

“Let’s download some source code over the Internet and take a look at a Python class definition. This class defines integer instances that operate modulo 23. This module might be used to discuss some basic concepts in group theory. We’ll come back to these ideas when we look at RSA, the public key cryptography algorithm.”

Create your own Python videos? You’ll find instructions here for how you can make your own videos in just 30 minutes.

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This is one of 122 videos in our Python tutorial section. Track new-video-announces with our video feed.

We’re excited to say that we are working on a new video series entitled 5 Minutes with Python - 5 minute videos that demonstrate the range of what can be achieved with Python.

Jeff Rush (PSF) is adding videos to the series, the first is Python and the Interactive Shell ‘IPython’:

“A brief introduction to the enhanced interactive shell name IPython. Superior to the default Python shell, IPython provides power object introspection features, easy access to operating system commands and integrates with your text editor.”

If you want to embed this video on your blog or site, see our embedding instructions.

This is one of 122 videos in our Python tutorial section. Track new-video-announces with our video feed.

New additions:

• A more dynamic front-page with summaries and RSS feeds for new videos, comments and votes.
• Updated sidebars on the left (needs a hard-refresh of your cached CSS, used Ctrl-F5).

I also have a few more tutorial videos to publish this afternoon.