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Optional type hinting in Python: after an initial flurry of "WAT?!", PEP 484 has settled in, spawned follow-on-work, and started to see adoption. In this webinar, Daniel Pyrathon, host of PyBay's opening panel on type hinting, joins us for "Putting Type Hints to Work": Tuesday, November 28th 1…
Yesterday's webinar on GraphQL was a hit: one of our highest-registrations ever, and Nafiul Islam gave a thorough introduction with live coding and answering a big list of audience questions: https://youtu.be/p7VujaALaGQ Specifically, Nafiul covered: An explanation of GraphQL Usage of the v…
Web development has long been a key part of Python’s appeal. In modern web apps, rich frontends work with Python backends over REST. But even that’s getting re-examined, with recent interest in GraphQL as a query language for web data. Want an introduction to what GraphQL means for Python? We’re for…
GraphQL is a new way of communicating with your data sources. It might replace RESTful APIs because it provides a better framework for dealing with your data. This webinar is about what GraphQL is and what problems it actually solves in comparison to RESTful APIs. Then, if you like it, how you can g…
Last week we had a wonderful webinar on visual testing with Kenneth Love, Python teacher and speaker extraordinaire. The recording is now available: https://youtu.be/ZB8Ppp64FQY During the webinar, Kenneth covered quite a bit of material: Start with a game in a Python package Use PyCharm to…
Python is one of the easiest languages to learn, but that doesn’t mean all the programming concepts become easy. One that’s hard: testing. Kenneth Love, well-known speaker, organizer, and teacher in Python, has years of experience bringing complicated subjects within reach. He’ll be our guest for a …
Testing in Python often requires you to spend a lot of time looking at dots in your terminal. PyCharm, though, can make testing easier and friendlier! When you configure PyCharm to run your Python tests for you, you can get useful visual feedback, tools for quickly re-running your test suite or just…
PyCharm Professional has long had great support for developing Django applications, including a run configuration tailored to the Django server. This winds up being a wonderful workflow, with a tool window showing the server output. https://youtu.be/zFuaU3Sl4-c Sometimes, though, you hit a problem…
Yesterday Paul Craven, computer science professor and creator of the Arcade library for Python 2d games, gave a webinar about teaching Python to university students using game writing. The recording is now available: https://youtu.be/MbJUMMvNMqk During the webinar, Paul discussed his technique…
Writing games in Python is fun, so how about using it to teach computer programming? Paul Craven is both a professor and the creator of Arcade, a 2d game library for Python. He’s doing a webinar with us next week, so we talked to him about teaching Python, using Python 3 type hints, why another Pyth…
Want to teach Python? Want to use Python 3 type hinting in your applications? Want to write games? In this webinar, we look at all three, together, using the Arcade library for Python and its creator, Paul Craven. Wednesday, August 2nd 17:00 European Time, 11AM Eastern Daylight Time Register…
In April we had a webinar about Visual Debugging. I misfired at the end, when showing template debugging in web frameworks, and promised a do-over. Here’s the do-over...let’s talk about a wonderful and useful feature in PyCharm Professional for web development: breakpoints in templates. PyCharm’s v…
