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Kyran has published a full new Club ShowMeDo series, this one covers database programming for beginners with Python.

1. Introduction to the Series (Free)
2. The Python Database API (DBAPI)
3. Connecting Python to the Database
4. Using and Manipulating a Database from Within a Python Progam
5. Creating a Database With Python

The aim of the series is to show you how to start talking to databases from within Python, assuming you already know how to write some Python code.

The Club now has 9 series aimed a new/intermediate Python programmers.  The 10th series on ‘Variables and Printing - Python Beginners’ will be starting soon.

The subscription price will start to rise soon to reflect the larger range of topics that are available, if you subscribe now you’ll always be charged the current lower rate (your costs won’t go up in the future even though we keep publishing new material each week).

Continuing from the last post we’ve published two more Club ShowMeDo videos in the first Python Beginners series named What Does Python Look Like?

The current four (of six) episodes are:

1. 3 Minute Oveview (What Does Python Look Like?) (Free)
2. Variables and Naming
3. Write and Run (and Unit Tests), No Compiling
4. Indentation and Colons

There are two more episodes to come, they’ll be posted next week.  After that a much longer Python Beginners series starts, this one will cover all of the basic datatypes including usage examples.

Kyran has published the first five episodes of A Gentle Introduction to the Google App Engine Python SDK in Club ShowMeDo, more will follow over the coming weeks.

“Google has chosen Python as its initial application development language, allowing new users to leverage the considerable power and usability of such frameworks as Django or Pylons. This series will introduce the GAE, focussing on the use of its Python SDK and webapp framework. …”

This series currently looks at:

• Overview of the series
• Installing the SDK + ‘Hello world’
• Using the framework
• Google’s User Service
• Handling Forms

We’re just starting to publish our first Python Beginners series in Club ShowMeDo.  This will form the first of a set of series aimed at new Python programmers.  First we kick off with What Does Python Look Like?

“If you’re coming to Python from a different language then you’ll want to know how the syntax looks. If you’re new to programming then you’ll probably want an idea of what to expect too! Here I give you a high-level view of Python’s code and common functions and I link to examples from Java, C and C++ to provide comparisons.”, What Does Python Look Like?

This will be a 6-part series lasting 30 minutes.  The first two episodes are up, the next four follow in the coming weeks.

The next series will be much longer (about 12 episodes) and will look at all of Python’s fundamental data types along with normal usage and working examples.  Details will be posted on the Club page.