Show HN: Practical Python Projects book release Hi everyone! I just released the Practical Python Projects book! (https://ift.tt/3sOUsdt) I am happy to announce the first version as a release candidate. I have poured a lot of love into writing this book and would love to hear what you guys think. (A limited 100% off and discount coupons at the end) This is not a pure beginner book. The book does assume some background Python knowledge. You need to know the basics like methods, functions, classes, and such. If I use something that is not typically covered in beginner Python books, I will explain it before I use it. There are no tests for these projects as they are really small and teach you how to glue different pieces together. Some projects that we will be making A Twilio bot that keeps you updated with the latest match scores from the FIFA World Cup A Facebook Messenger bot the shares latest memes, jokes, and shower-thoughts scraped from Reddit An automated invoice generator and deploying it using Flask Making automated cinema-preshow by downloading and stitching together related movie trailers using moviepy Generating automated article summaries and overlaying them on top of images Understanding and decoding JPEG images using vanilla Python Creating a GUI application using PyQt for downloading online videos Implementing a TUI email client that allows reading emails in the terminal The first 50 people can use the "hn-love" coupon (without the quotation marks) to get 15% off. I am also offering a 30-day no-questions-asked refund policy if you don't enjoy this book and don't learn anything new. You can buy the book from https://ift.tt/3sOUsdt You can get a free sample chapter from here: https://ift.tt/3bXnrFc You can learn more about my writing style by reading any of my recent articles over at https://yasoob.me (For detailed FAQ, you can head over to the book website: https://ift.tt/3sOUsdt) March 5, 2021 at 12:58AM
Women Pioneers at Muni: Adeline Svendsen and Muni’s First Newsletter By Jeremy Menzies To close out Women’s History Month, here’s a look back at one woman whose work to bring Muni staff together in the late 1940s created a legacy that lives on to this day. Adeline “Addy” Svendsen was founding editor of Muni’s first internal newsletter, “ Trolley Topics .” Adeline Svendsen sits at her desk in the Geneva Carhouse office building in this 1949 shot. Trolley Topics was a new venture when it started in February 1946. As Svendsen wrote in the first issue it was created, “to bring a little fun, a little news, and a lot of good will to all our fellow employees in the Railway.” Just two years prior in 1944, Muni merged with the Market Street Railway Company, expanding the small municipal operation into the largest transit provider in the city with hundreds of employees, vehicles of every shape and size, and dozens of facilities scattered across town. The newsletter was meant to help unite ...
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