Programming videos have become an increasingly popular medium for sharing knowledge and helping the fellow developers on your team. Especially when you’re working remotely, effective communication is vital, and screencasts have emerged as a powerful tool that meets this need. That’s why knowing how to make programming videos is a valuable skill, no matter where you are in your career. Even if you’ve never considered creating video content yourself, creating a screencast can be a great way to enhance written […]

May 2023 was an important month for Python, as the upcoming Python 3.12 version is now feature complete. You can dig into a lot of information about Python and its development by reading the coverage of the Language Summit and watching videos from PyCon US. Modular has announced a new programming language that’s based on Python. Grab a cup of your favorite beverage and sit down with the most important Python news from the last month. Python 3.12 in Beta […]

When you need to speed up your NumPy processing—or just reduce your memory usage—the Numba just-in-time compiler is a great tool. It lets you write Python code that gets compiled at runtime to machine code, allowing you to get the kind of speed improvements you’d get from languages like C, Fortran, or Rust. Or at least, that’s the theory. In practice, your initial Numba code may be no faster than the NumPy equivalent. But you can do better, once you […]

If you’ve been learning Python long enough, then you’ve likely seen or heard about the Zen of Python. Experienced Pythonistas often refer to it as a source of wisdom and guidance, especially when they want to settle an argument about certain design decisions in a piece of code. Others take these principles even more seriously by considering them a sort of Pythonic decalogue. In this tutorial, you’ll learn where to find the Zen of Python, how it came into existence, […]