Flash Cards For Logic Study

Hello All,

I am working on Exercise 27 of Learn Python the Hard Way.

Zed has recommended Anki for creating flash cards in previous lessons.

It seems to work pretty well but I was wondering if any of you know of a good online or cool old Linux version of flash card study programs.

Now that I think of it it might even be a neat little project.

Thanks,
--Steve

Touch Typing Practice for Programmers.

I'm trying to get my typing speed up. I have used all sorts of touch typing programs but wanted something a little more focused on touch typing as a programmer.

Typing.io has typing lessons that covers 16+ programming languages including Python.

If you sign up ($5 a month) you can add your own code or lessons. I'm using it to upload my Learn Python The Hard Way lessons then type them in using the keyboard/finger map.

This lets me practice the lesson and also lets me practice my typing. You can try it for free to see if you think it's helpful. I think it's kind of expensive but I'm going to try the paid version for at least 1 month.

Check it out.

For regular trying practice I'm trying out Type-Fu.
It's got a nice clean interface and has a great look and feel. The website says it's $10 but when I bought it from the Chrome web store it was $5. This is a one time purchase and can be used offline. You can try it out and even get a refund if you don't like it within 30 minutes.

If these don't work I'm going back to Mavis Beacon... Not Really.

--Steve

What can't Python do?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/01/how-to-hack-okcupid/
Using Python to hack OKCupid!

Runnable.com Code Snippets to go

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/02/runnable-wants-to-become-the-youtube-of-code/
Looks like they have collected a lot of good code examples.
Let me know if you use it and if you use it how you like it.
--Steve

Sounds like a book worth reading.

I was reading reddit.

When I found this post:

That points to this blog post:

About this book:

That is apparently online here:

Programming Cheat Sheet

http://overapi.com/python/


Looks cool, check it out!
--Steve

Cake or Pi?

I like Cake but Pi is beautiful.

I am interested in Data Visualisation. Not sure that Pi is what needs to be visualized but here it is.
I love the Numberphile and Computerphile guys.

Check them out!
--Steve

Happy New Year Flask

Happy New Year!

I was looking for Python Podcasts and ran across From Python Import Podcast. I thought it was pretty good. I hope they put them out on a regular basis. I'd like to hear more.

They had Katie Cunningham on. They talked about her book Sams Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours. It sounds interesting for people that want to learn Python. 

They also talked about Flask which is a microframework for Python. Sounds like a quick and easy way to get your Python up on the web. I'm going to give it a try once I have something I want to put up. I have some ideas (on paper) for some small sample projects but I haven't started coding them yet.

Have any of you used Flask? How did you like it?

Talk to you soon,

--Steve