Advanced Python Development
by Matthew Wilkes · first published 2020
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I made more or less this journey a year ago, I’d dabbled in Python in the past, then done a decade or so of Ruby before accepting a job at a Python shop. Advanced Python Development by Matthew Wilkes was great for giving a jumpstart from “I can read Python and throw together some quick and dirty code” to “I can write Python to a professional standard”. Coming over from Ruby I was…
on “Ask HN: How to get back to programming Python?” ↗…push? You NEED ot learn version control, and the easiest one is probably Git, as in Github. Your IDE will handle most of this for you and you should let it, unless you like screaming the command line. Advanced Python Development by Matthew Wilkes is not the most gripping read but it is good on how to manage your ridiculously large number of tools without completely losing your mind. Remember I mentioned Jupyter? And Swiss Army…
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