I tend to find that American articles online are much longer than the typical effort you might see in the UK. I might be wrong but that’s my impression anyways..
This article is about the links between autism and pain – there is a lot of familiar stuff in here. If you or someone you know has autism then I can pretty much (almost definitely probably) guarantee you will already be familiar with a lot of the points raised in the article.
This is the extra content for the Sky at Night (10th July 2016). The Perseids meteor shower will be visible from July 23rd to August 23rd 2016. The peak is the night 10/11th, 11/12th, 12/13th and 13/14th August – from 1:00am until dawn.
This week’s episode was all about Juno. The speed at periapsis is 165,00 mph!
Wow! Actually, my exact words were “Oh my gaad!” or something; that was what I said when I started the next section at the start of my Freecodecamp journey – HTML elements. My surprise was at the big resources page called Let’s Explore the Universe of Programming which seems to have a ton of links to loads of free programming books and even free University courses!
This blog post is being written in the time I’ve set aside for “learning to code”. The philosophy I picked up from a Youtube video that featured Freecodecamp was to aim to do 25 minutes of coding a day; and to do 3 days in a row. Then 3 weeks in a row and then 3 months in a row. This is especially if you really want to code but you are finding it hard to get started or to focus etc.
It’s the first day of my second block of 3 days and I still haven’t actually done any coding yet! But, I have installed Gitter on my smartphone and joined the chatroom for Freecodecamp (don’t forget the Facebook page and the local clubs list with links to the Cardiff and Chepstow clubs and the FCC subreddit). So, in my last few minutes I am going to look at the first proper tutorial (which looks pretty easy if you’ve done lots of HTML before).
But I will definitely be going back and looking at the free Uni courses linked via FCC. But next I have to join the forum. And check The Changelog – a podcast all about opensource.
Ooh! Almost forgot to link the Github Readme on the main page.
The Fullstack Python site has a page dedicated purely to Flask resources and tutorials. With links to the Mega Tutorial and many others – there seems to be an emphasis on guides that get you to make real projects.
Flask is a Python web framework – I haven’t yet tried it myself. After trying Django with the Django Girls tutorial (actually, I haven’t completed the last proper section yet – Django Forms). From what I’ve read about Flask it sounds like it is smaller and more “Pythonic”. For a definition of that word, the Secret Weblog recommends that you type import this into a Python interpreter.. I just tried it and it works.
Code Visually also recommend Full Stack Python and carlos.bueno has a long page about what it means to be a full stack programmer.
Credit: I have borrowed the Flask + Unicorn image from Charles Leifer’s Python blog who also has a post about building a Flask app in an hour (or less).
And here is The Juno Toolkit… and Media Gallery flightplan.
Live streaming Juno via updates coverage page via the @NASAJuno pinned tweet.
Here is a GMT to PDT converter – basically PDT is 7 hours behind GMT. So:
8:18pm PDT on July 4th
will be
4:18am on July 5th.
See screenshot below.
The video is a very nicely paced talk about how to write a great programming blog (or any other topic really). It’s at PyCon 2016 in Portland, Oregon. He really takes his time and has great slides that simplify what he’s talking about. The Youtube description also has links to the actual slides on Github too.
It’s 27:00 minutes long roughly and it has great audio with the speaker in the corner of the screen to leave room for the slides. He uses a classic teaching structure:
I personally found it very inspiring as I have been publishing blogs since 2005 (e.g. such as this short post written by myself from almost exactly 11 years ago that links to an intriguing article by George Monbiot about choosing a career). Sometimes I may spend hours over one blog post so it’s great to hear someone describing blog posts as articles or essays.
At the end of the talk he provides a bit.ly link that takes you to his essay about writing great content (which I’ve not read yet). He provides some great yet simple ideas such as reading articles all the way to the end and asking yourself whether it was an effective article or not. The main idea behind the talk is that he provides techniques, concepts and structures that will help if you write blogs but struggle to find the time etc.
Don’t forget, for those feeling a bit visual, there is always Pinterest to get completely lost in. Here is what you get if you search for Python on Pinterest.
I followed one Pin and eventually came to an absolutely huge and well structured collection of resources for learning Python via a list of online resources for programming in general.
