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July 18, 2023 07 - The Robyn Python Web Framework
Today’s episode is all about the Robyn package, a new Python web framework written in Rust.
The author of Robyn, Sanskar Jethi (@sansyrox), is here to talk all about it in addition to Starfyre, which allows you to build reactive frontends using only Python.
Listen in and learn all about how Sanskar got started with Python and what inspired him to build these amazing Python packages!

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20 min
July 11, 2023 06 - Well Grounded Python Developers
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

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34 min
July 04, 2023 05 - Python Linters with Tarek Ziadé
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.

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45 min
June 27, 2023 04 - Teaching Python to Children and Adults
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.

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38 min
June 20, 2023 03 - Desktop GUI Frameworks for Python
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

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26 min
June 13, 2023 02 - Data Science and Python with Akshay Pachaar
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

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37 min
June 06, 2023 01 - How I Got into Programming and Python
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

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24 min