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Dev: Flask Intro 1

Recently, I attended a Python Meetup. The first presenter was Carter Rabasa from Twilio. He gave two short demos of Flask. From the site: Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions. More specifically, … Continue reading

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Python PyGame 3.1: Walkthrough the WWII Bombing Pilot Game

PyGame in Python Part 3.1 Walkthrough the WWII Bombing Pilot Game So, we’ve introduced you to the basics of Python and PyGame over the last several blogs. Now it’s time to get your hands dirty and do something FUN! The … Continue reading

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Python PyGame: 2.1 (Mandelbrot)

Python PyGame:2.1 Mandelbrot (a short aside) In my last blog I started off with a game that draws circles of different colors. That is boring. Personally, I never tire of rewriting programs to draw fractals. Today we’ll quickly jump through … Continue reading

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Python PyGame: 2

Python PyGame: 2 In my first blog I covered the basics of getting PyGame installed on your Widnows machine with Python 2.7. We also went over the core methodology of IDEA: ALTER presented in the “Game Programming The Express Line … Continue reading

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Python PyGame: 1

Introduction: A particular nephew of mine asked if I could help him write a computer game. I said of course, but I really had no idea what this meant. So, I did some quick research on Amazon and came up … Continue reading

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Django & Python Adventure Part 6

Today I am going to focus on incorporating JQuery into Django. If you’re following along this is material covered in chapter 6 of Ayman Hourieh’s “Django 1.0 Web Site Development”. The book was published in March 2009, so this will … Continue reading

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Django & Python Adventure Part 5

In this post I’ll be adding the Tag concept to my bookmarks website. This will get the website one step closer to what Delicious does and is an integral part of social websites. Throughout the course of the blog we’ll … Continue reading

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Django & Python Adventure Part 4

In this post we’ll be dealing with Django’s User Authentication and Base Templates (Master Pages). These are things every project requires and so you cannot really know a platform until you’ve covered this ground. First let’s take care of the … Continue reading

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Django & Python Adventure Part 3

If you’ve just jumped in, this is my blog series of my walkthrough of a fantastic book on learning Django w/Python called “Django 1.0 Web Site Development” by Ayman Hourieh.  I’m doing this to pick up a lot of good … Continue reading

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Django & Python Adventure Part 2

Hello again.  Today we’ll continue from Part 1 and create an initial Template and some database Models.  Django is MVC, it just calls it MTV.  So, Model-View-Control = Model-Template-View.  I think the View part is what’s most confusing, but, that’s … Continue reading

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