Ned Batchelder
Drawing Cairo SVG in a Jupyter notebook
27 January
Quick tip: if you want to draw figures using Cairo in a Jupyter notebook, here’s how to do it, at least this was how I did it: » more..
Counting lines of code
19 January
I wrote an Open edX blog post about the need to move from Python 2 to Python 3. For emphasis, I wanted to say how much code there was. » more..
Advice
1 January
Toward the end of last year, a co-worker on her birthday was asking people for life advice. She caught me off-guard, and all I could think of at the moment was “put money into your 401(k).” » more..
A thing I learned about Python recursion
20 December 2018
Working on a programming challenge, I was surprised by something. I built a tree structure with a recursive function. » more..
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Code
software I made
- Aptus ·· a Mandelbrot set explorer
- coverage.py ·· for measuring Python code coverage
- hyphenate ·· for hyphenating words with the Liang/Knuth algorithm
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words I wrote
- Pragmatic Unicode ·· how to stop the pain
- Python Names and Values ·· how assignment works
- Kindling projects ·· small projects for new programmers