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ShowMeDo Blog » Blog Archive » ShowMeDo on the web — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:26:55 +0000

[...] had two great mentions in the last few days. The first was by Og Macial who posted after buying a Club subscription to learn Python: Today I subscribed to ShowMeDo, a web [...]

By: Ian Ozsvald

Ian Ozsvald — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:42:36 +0000

Christopher – above the Nav bar you’ll see a Club link, the Club page lists the current 6 series and talks about what we have planned next.

If you click through to each series the first video is a 3 minute overview which should give you a fair idea of what’s covered.

You can click into each episode and read the descriptive text and look at the source code – the only thing you can’t do is watch the video if you’re not a subscriber.

You can of course mail me, or post into the Learner’s Forum (linked via ‘resources’ in our nav bar) if you want to ask about the series.

The general aim now is to focus on new and intermediate Python programmers and help them to move forwards. Later we’ll focus on more advanced Python stuff but we figured that beginners would benefit the most from clear, pragmatic tutorials by those who have already been in the trenches.

Does that help?

Ian.

By: OgMaciel

OgMaciel — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:00:03 +0000

Hey Christopher,

Most of the videos/screencasts I’ve seen had pretty decent quality of video and audio, and you can download them too which is a big plus!

By: Ian Ozsvald

Ian Ozsvald — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:59:32 +0000

EasyGui is a *real simple* UI toolkit – it just gives you dialogs that you can use in serial with your code. It is really easy as it doesn’t give you a ‘proper’ UI like Gtk, Tk, wx etc.
I do have 1 series on starting with wx which is really basic. Kyran (co-founder) plans a follow-up series showing you how to do much more with wx. We’ve had a few requests for Gtk and QT so I guess we’ll cover those in the future.
John is covering CGI right now then he’ll build towards Django. Kyran is about to cover the Google App Engine (which uses CGI). We hadn’t planned on covering CherryPy just yet but I’m sure we will in the future.
Do feel very free to mail me feedback – we thrive on it and it helps point us in the right direction.
Cheers,
Ian.

By: Christopher Denter

Christopher Denter — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:41:19 +0000

Hey Og,

can you tell of what quality the screencasts are? (Both, Video/Audio-quality and judging from the contents.)

I don’t need another “This is Hello World.” or “This is what OO means.”.
I, personally, would like to have talks about advanced programming topics and techniques using the Python programming language. (Would be great to have an overview on what’s available if you sign up and pay for it.)

Is there such a thing, Ian?

By: OgMaciel

OgMaciel — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:03:17 +0000

Hi there Ian,

I’m actually planning to watch the series where you develop an app using WingIDE and EasyGui(?)… Even though I have solely used Gtk for my UI needs, some of the concepts you promised to cover are very interesting, specially unit testing.

If you’d allow me to make a suggestion for a future topic, something like creating GUI with Gtk (not Glade) and/or CherryPy and Python would be really interesting.

Anyhow, congrats on the project and I’m looking forward to watching more of your screencasts.

By: Ian Ozsvald

Ian Ozsvald — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:54:06 +0000

It is great to hear that you like our screencasts.

I’m one of the founders, we have more series planned including topics like the Google App Engine, wxPython and ‘Beginning with Python’.

Ian.