Python: Beginner to Expert
Have you ever wondered about how to create a package like the ones you can install into your python environment using tools like pip or pipenv? This article starts with the complete source code plus a how-to guide to publishing a minimal Python package to PyPi. The source is also available on GitHub. Once we … Read more
Pipenv and pip are both excellent tools for installing and managing Python dependencies that are widely adopted and work extremely well.
Learning pip well first is the choice we recommend. Pip is established and widely known, so many teams prefer pip and venv to manage dependencies and virtual environments. Pipenv makes a few things simpler, but for every thing it simplifies, it makes other things more complex than they need to be.
Pyenv is a tool that lets you install and manage multiple Python environments on the same machine. If you’re like me and do a lot of work in Python, eventually you realize that you have multiple versions of it installed, and you’d like to be more clear about which version you want to run.
This is part two of and wraps up our video series on how to install a complete development environment for Python and Git on Windows. In part two, we install Visual Studio Code and the GitHub CLI.
In this part one of a two-part video series, we install the Windows Terminal, Git for Windows, and Python.
Recently, I have been doing a lot of work trying to understand what tools I want to use in the software development course / boot camp I’ll be teaching. I’ve had a good idea of course topics I want to deliver for some time now: Honestly, the outline fell into place fairly easily, but it … Read more
