#108: MicroPython and Open Source Hardware at Adafruit
Want to learn how to build an Iron-man like arc reactor accessory or maybe a solar charging backpack? What if you could program these devices with Python? We'll be talking about a project and company making this possible. This week you'll meet Tony DiCola who works at Adafruit. A company making hardware programming accessible. We will also talk about micropython which lets you program these cool devices in Python!
21 Apr 20171h 4min
#107: Python concurrency with Curio
You have heard me go on and on about how Python 3.5's async and await changes the game for asynchronous programming in Python. But what exactly does that mean? How does it work in APIs? Internally? Today I'm here with David Beazley who has been deeply exploring this space with his project Curio.
15 Apr 20171h 1min
#106: Invent your own computer games with Python
Al Sweigart is back on Talk Python. This time we're inventing our own computer games.
7 Apr 201758min
#105: A Pythonic Database Tour
There are many reasons it's a great time to be a developer. One of them is because there are so many choices around data access and databases. So this week we take tour with our guest Jim Fulton of some databases you may not have heard of or given a try.
27 Mar 201757min
#104: Game Theory in Python
Game theory is the study competing interests, be it individual actors within an economy or healthy vs. cancer cells within a body. Our guests this week, Vince Knight, Marc Harper, and Owen Campbell, are here to discuss their python project built to study and simulate one of the central problems in Game Theory: The prisoners' dilemma.
23 Mar 201757min
#103: Compiling Python through PyLLVM and MongoDB for Data Scientists
This episode we have an optimization 2fer.
16 Mar 201752min
#102: Effective Code Reviews
How do you build reliable software with fewer bugs? Yes, unit testing is part of that. But did you know that code reviews often play a key role in this process and come with many benefits on top of just bug detection.
8 Mar 201750min
#101: Adding a full featured Python environment to Visual Studio Code
You know the two questions I asked at the end of each episode? What's your favorite editor for writing Python code and what less-well-known PyPI package do you recommend? Well this time, we are making a whole episode out of "What's your favorite editor". You'll meet Don Jayamanne who created the wildly popular and open source Python add-in for Visual Studio Code. That's not the Windows-only Visual Studio, but Microsoft's free cross-platform editor.
3 Mar 201755min
