What’s on the Pythonista menu? Yep, sliders! Side dish of booleans, integers and floats Dec 2018

I built this app and am running this app on my iPad. Credit to: mikaelho / pythonista – gestures tdamdouni / Pythonista Pythonista / slider / SliderWithLabel_danrcook.py The video shows an app with 8 inputs — 2 integer, 4 float, 2 boolean. Numeric input is tedious — at best; slider input is easier and offers positive feedback. In this […]

I decided to try out Jupyter using Microsoft Azure (currently a free trial). I’ve invested a couple of days on this project including learning new notebook extensions and Interact widgets. And so far, so good. Pros Easy to use Well-documented Relatively trouble-free Cons Could have faster response times

Visionary Alan Kay Sep 2018

Excellent! https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-about-the-iphone-and-technology-now https://twitter.com/khoitsma/status/1041412147962687488

get_next, get_prev, in Python OrderedDict Aug 2018

I provide an example class based on an OrderedDict — with an adjunct dictionary to index to the next and prev OrderedDict entry. In my case, I have a rather static OrderedDict: it is a dictionary of AISC shape objects. The function set_prev_next() must be called after each operation that modifies OrderedDict. class MyClass(coll.OrderedDict): mynpdict […]