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Apr 25 • 8 tweets • 9 min read
Happy Birthday 🎂 ThePythonCodingBook.com
You're turning 1 🕯️ in a few days' time.

I'm still shocked how almost 20,000 people visit every month just from organic traffic.

A number of posts have done extremely well.

Here are the top five:

#python #coding #100daysofcode

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In #5th place:

The White Room analogy that explains a lot of what's happening in #programming using a mental image that everyone can relate to.

thepythoncodingbook.com/understanding-…

#python #100daysofcode

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In #4th place:

This fun project designed to practise using lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets in a fun turtle-based animation.

thepythoncodingbook.com/2021/10/31/usi…

#python #turtle #datastructures

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In #3rd place:

And next up is the first article in the Bouncing ball series — this one simulates just one ball.

<There's another one than simulates many balls, that's just outside the Top 5>

thepythoncodingbook.com/2021/08/19/sim…

#bouncingball #Python

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In #2nd place:

This article has held top spot for a long time, but has just been pipped to the post for the one-year anniversary by a smidgen.

Decomposing and reconstructing images using the #2DFourierTransform

thepythoncodingbook.com/2021/08/30/2d-…

#Fourier #images

5/8
And, the #TopSpot goes to

…drum roll…

Using @matplotlib to simulate planets orbiting suns in 3D.

The binary star one in the article is especially fun!

thepythoncodingbook.com/2021/12/11/sim…

#simulation #solarsystem #python

6/8
Special mention:

This article sits just outside Top 10, but I only published it a week ago!

At this rate, it may take top spot very soon.

I look at steps followed by detectives when solving crimes and look at parallels with debugging #Python code

thepythoncodingbook.com/2022/04/17/deb…

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Apr 27
itertools.takewhile()

one of those good-to-know-about-functions

I decided to explore it today…

Read on if you've not come across takewhile before…

👇🪡🧵

#Python #coding #100daysofcode

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takewhile takes successive items from a sequence for as long as a certain condition is true.

It's the equivalent of using a _while_ loop to _take_ successive items from the sequence until the while condition is not met–hence the name takewhile.

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In this example, the challenge is to see how many successive heads I can get when I flip a coin…

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Apr 26
When I trained as a scientist, #programming was a required tool in some select areas of #physics & #maths but not much beyond that…

That's no longer the case. #Coding is rapidly becoming a must-have skill in all scientific fields

Read on…

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#ScientificComputing

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In recent years, I have introduced #Python #coding to chemists, biologists, psychologists, medical scientists, geologists, well, the list goes on.

Suffice to say that it spans all areas of science.

Why?

2/4
All of these teams and individuals realise that either they have large amounts of data they need to analyse in all sorts of different ways, or they need to simulate experiments and create computational models.

#Python is often the language of choice in many of these fields.

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Apr 25
The anatomy of a 2D Python game as seen through pictures and videos…

Let's have a look at the steps needed to create this game: thepythoncodingbook.com/2022/04/24/pyt…

👇🪡🧵

#python #100daysofcode #coding #2DGame

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1. Create the window and game background

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2. Create the lunar module

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Apr 19
"I'm struggling to understand <topic>.
No matter how much I try, I can't get it"

As I've been getting to know the #Pythonverse on Twitter better in recent weeks, I've seen this common theme recur often from beginners

If this is you, read on…
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#Python #codenewbie #coding
It's not just you.

This is the norm, not the exception

There are a number of reasons why this happens.

Here are some of them…
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You may be learning a topic a bit too early.

Some topics need a good understanding of other concepts before you can fully grasp them.

#ObjectOrientedProgramming is one such area. Many beginners try to learn this topic before they've fully mastered the basics…
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Apr 18
There are many ways to practise using different data structures in #Python…

…not many are as fun as this one!

Here's the step-by-step tutorial to work your way towards writing this animation: thepythoncodingbook.com/2021/10/31/usi…

#100daysofcode #coding #learnPython

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In this project, you'll get to use lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets to set up the grid, colours, and get the balls to bounce and speed across the tiles.

It's fun to write, and fun to watch, too!

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If you don't have the time for this but know someone who does, please do share…

#python #coding

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Apr 17
thereisareasonwhyweusespacesandpunctuation

Languages like Latin and Ancient Greek didn't always have spaces and punctuation.

Code wasn't always written to be readable.

Both things have changed, for the better

readon👇🪡🧵

thepythoncodingbook.com/2021/10/11/pyt…
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In the earlier days of computer #programming, there were only a few programmers.

The complexity of computer code was limited primarily by the hardware restrictions on memory and speed of execution.

#codinginthepast #coding
Code was rarely shared and read by others, and teams working on software were small and often consisted of just one person.
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