ShowMeDo
Today I subscribed to ShowMeDo, a web site dedicated to providing tutorials in the format of screencasts. The tutorials cover many programming topics with Python being the one that got me to get a paid subscription. I managed to watch a few episodes during my lunch break… and was blown away at how easy it is to follow the sessions!
Before anyone ask, I’m not getting paid for this plug… I know quite a few people who have shown interest in learning Python but didn’t know how to get started. If you follow a tutorial series, not only will you learn some valuable skills, but you’ll also have a working project to play with.
I highly recommend it!
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April 22nd, 2008 at 10:54 am
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.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:03 am
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.
Og
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
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?
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
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.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
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!
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:42 am
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.
April 27th, 2008 at 7:26 am
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