holy crap i have an actual code commit in an actual programming language
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Inheritance in #Python may seem complex, but it's worth learning to optimize your code. 
Explore it with Reuven Lerner and Paul Everitt in our webinar on May 26!
info.jetbrains.com/pycharm-webina
Explore it with Reuven Lerner and Paul Everitt in our webinar on May 26!
info.jetbrains.com/pycharm-webina
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read this jvns.ca/blog/brag-docu
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look at these weird games my python students wrote blog.jrheard.com/roguelike
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here is what i think about jobs blog.jrheard.com/jobs
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path of exile gets a 90 in pc gamer's re-review, chris wilson be praised
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here's a video of the hypothesis talk i gave at the python meetup last week: youtube.com/watch?v=AqWFaD . i'm pleased with how it went: if you write python code, you should watch this talk! cc
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i'll be giving a talk at the portland python meetup this thursday night about the hypothesis library, which is an incredibly neat tool for doing generative testing. free pizza! engaging content! come out! meetup.com/pdxpython/even
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at the start of the winter i wrote an accidentally-autobiographical text adventure where the player has lost their SAD lamp and desperately needs to find it - github.com/jrheard/waterv . anyway it's spring now and i just found my SAD lamp in the back of my closet so that's great
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i wrote a blog post that explains why `num == 5 or 6 or 7` doesn't do what beginner python programmers expect: blog.jrheard.com/truthiness-and
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just finished writing up a project that my high school python class is going to be implementing over the next couple of weeks: blog.jrheard.com/python/blackja
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I think I'm going to start using 's password checking example (probably without pexpect) for explaining Hypothesis in my next talk. It's got lots of really nice features for doing so. blog.jrheard.com/hypothesis-and
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reframing tech discussions from "am I right or are you right?" to "let's try to figure out the truth together!!" is kinda life changing
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here's a post on how to use hypothesis and pexpect to test high school programming assignments: blog.jrheard.com/hypothesis-and (cc )
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A scrabble-with-numbers built with #Clojure, by :
blog.jrheard.com/quinto-resurre
Play the game: blog.jrheard.com/quinto
I love the building of game engines to learn / grow programming skills.
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I played an old board game at a friend's house, become inexplicably obsessed with it, and wrote a program that lets you play the game against an AI opponent: blog.jrheard.com/quinto-resurre
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OH - : "here is a technique that is eminently plausible in 'software engineering' that would be rightly laughed out of the room in 'classical engineering': vinandhobbesagain.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/ch8611 "
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here's a project i've been working on, involving teaching high school kids how to program in python using a watercoloring robot: blog.jrheard.com/watercolorbot
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erlang's history is nutty community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/th
this is good citylab.com/environment/20
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