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Do you remember the One Laptop Per Child program? What went wrong, and what can we learn from the program’s failure? What are the potential pitfalls of charismatic technology, and how can we avoid them when introducing students to programming? This week on the show, former guest Al Sweigart and author Morgan Ames are here to talk about her book “The Charisma Machine - The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child.”
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Ruby vs Python Comes Down to the for Loop
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Cython, Rust, and More: Choosing a Language for Python Extensions
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Async Python Is Not Faster
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Custom Python for Banks, CLI Apps With Typer, Faster CPython, and More

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

An Oral History of Bank Python #498 – NOVEMBER 9, 2021 VIEW IN BROWSER The PyCoder's Weekly Logo An Oral History of Bank Python Interesting read about the strange world of Python, as used by big

GIL News, "zipapp" Module in 3.5+, PSF Community Service Awards, and More

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

A Viable Solution for Python Concurrency #497 – NOVEMBER 2, 2021 VIEW IN BROWSER The PyCoder's Weekly Logo A Viable Solution for Python Concurrency “The end result thus appears to be a GIL-removal

Idiomatic Python, GIL Removal Meeting, PyCon 2022, Django 4.0, and More

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Writing Idiomatic Python #496 – OCTOBER 26, 2021 VIEW IN BROWSER The PyCoder's Weekly Logo Writing Idiomatic Python What are the programming idioms unique to Python? This course is a short overview

GIL-Free CPython Proof of Concept, Type Hints Case Study, Using @property, and More

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

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Python Secures TIOBE #1 Spot, Guido on Python Performance, 3.10 Updates, and More

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

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