#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
#100: Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum
Welcome to a very special episode. This is the 100th episode of Talk Python To Me. It's the perfect chance to take a moment and look at where we have come from, and where we are going. Not just with regard to the podcast but for Python in general. And who better to do this than Python's inventor himself. Guido van Rossum. In this episode, we discuss how Guido go into programming, where Python came from and why, and Python's bright future with Python 3.
22 Feb 20171h 2min
#99: Morepath: Super Powered Python Web Framework
One of the areas where Python truly shines is on the web. Many well known websites like YouTube, Pintrest, and Spotify are powered by Python. In the mid 2000's, a number of powerful and popular frameworks were created such as Django, Flask, and Pyramid.
15 Feb 20171h 4min
