Doug Farrell is the author of “The Well-Grounded Python Developer” for Manning Publishing and a contributor/writer for Real Python.

In this episode, we talk about

* How programming has changed over the past few decades

* What a well-grounded Python developer is

* The process of authoring a book

* and more!

You can catch up with Doug at any of the following sites:

* Twitter

* GitHub

* Personal Website

Tarek Ziadé is the original creator of Flake8, a super popular linter that combines pep8 and PyFlakes.

Tarek has also recently created the perf8, a tool for measuring your Python code performance. You can read more about the project in the article: Perf8: Performance metrics for Python.

If you’d like to see what else Tarek is up to, you can find him on Mastodon.

Today’s special guest is Stephen Gruppetta (@s_gruppetta_ct), author of The Python Coding Book. In this podcast, we discuss Stephen’s coding journey, teaching, books, and course ideas.

Check out Stephen’s newsletter: The Python Coding Stack!

You can also check out Stephen’s home page for more on what he’s up to.

In today’s episode, I talk about many of the amazing Python graphical user interface (GUI) frameworks that you have available.

I focus primarily on desktop GUI frameworks.

Here is a list of links to the ones mentioned in this episode:

* Tkinter

* wxPython

* PyQt

* Qt for Python (AKA PySide)

* PyGTK (Note: no longer actively developed)

* DearPyGUI

Simpler GUIs

* CustomTkinter

* PySimpleGUI

* EasyGUI

Mobile GUI frameworks

* Kivy

* Toga

* PyQt

HTML-Based Desktop GUIs

* NiceGUI

* Flexx

Text-Base GUIs

* Textual

Today’s episode is about data science and Python with my guest, Akshay Pachaar!

You can follow Akshay on Twitter or befriend him on LinkedIn.

Topics covered include:

* How Akshay got into tech, data science, and Python

* Using Python in data science

* Python and maps / GIS

* Machine learning

* LLMs

* Content creation + audience growth tips

I’m always being asked how I got into the Python programming language, so I think the inaugural episode should be about that topic.

Things I mention in this episode include:

* The Mouse vs Python blog

* Planet Python

* The wxPython GUI toolkit

* The Tkinter GUI toolkit

* The PyQt GUI toolkit