37 posts tagged with "Tutorial"

Any real work with data starts with actually looking at it. Before reaching for a heavyweight analytics platform, the fastest way to get your hands on a dataset is a notebook running on your own machine. That personal workbench is where I do most of my exploring, and Jupyter is what powers it.

As a software developer and dad to two curious boys, I live in one world of code and another of LEGOs. Watching my kids snap together simple blocks to build increasingly complex creations, I can't help but see the similarity to how we build software from just a few basic "blocks" of code.

In the previous unit, we covered game loops, state management, and collision detection. Now let's put it all together and build Snake.

In the previous unit, we covered project management with Poetry. Now we're shifting back to Turtle graphics to explore game development concepts that we'll use in the final unit to build Snake.

In the previous unit, we used pip and requirements.txt to manage dependencies. Poetry takes this further with a more complete project management workflow.

In the previous unit, we learned to share code through GitHub. Now let's talk about managing the packages your code depends on.

In the previous unit, we learned to track changes locally with Git. Now let's connect to GitHub for backup, sharing, and collaboration.

In the previous unit, we learned to write tests. Now let's learn how to track changes to our code using Git, so we can safely experiment, undo mistakes, and keep a history of our work.

In the previous unit, we learned to debug and handle errors. Now let's write tests that verify our code works correctly before problems arise.

In the previous unit, we worked with JSON data. Now let's learn how to find and fix bugs, and how to handle errors gracefully when they occur.