[002] Python Development with IPython (4 videos)
a series of video-tutorials by Ian Ozsvald
Four videos leading you through the installation and basic mastery of the powerful IPython interactive Python environment

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[002] Ian Ozsvald
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51 months
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181 videos
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I am the co-founder of ShowMeDo (see http://showmedo.com/about), author of `The Screencasting Handbook <http://thescreencastinghandbook.com>`_ and the founder of the professional screencast production company `ProCasts <http://procasts.co.uk>`_:
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Four videos leading you through the installation and basic mastery of the powerful IPython interactive Python environment
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John Willden yesterdaySounds good up front. I want to use this to run a distance model --from sample plot points (dependant point in the math equation)--over imagery and 'unweight' more distant pixels, say with a gaussian filter. Similar to inverse distance weighting but with (i dont completeley understand) --an adptive search grid or kernel over the image. Its a saptial thing if you will.
Regards.
Steve 4 days agoUseful for the people like me - but still must be complemented with books
evaristo.c 4 days agoThe video was well presented and I actually find myself learning the concepts of general GUI development faster than I expected. Also I'm wanting to create a simple address book application that stores information in a small SQLite database. I look forward to the next presentations.
eddings.molly 4 days agoA very good introduction. Showing the example, then making changes on the fly really shows off how simple it is to code in python.
eddings.molly 4 days agoNice introduction to the series. I really like how you demonstrate the final product in the beginning to leave us with something to look forward to.
eddings.molly 5 days agoExcellent, Ian! I live in the US, Reno, Nevada (Tahoe area) working for Washoe County Library System. The economic downturn has been hard on the library and as a result we are looking for alternatives to the MS proprietary solutions. OO seems to be a good fit for both patrons and staff. With your training videos I hope to expedite this move straight away.
Thank you!
Todd Goatley 8 days agoVery nice - thank you - very clear, and your voice is so very nice to listen to. :)
student of python 8 days agoVery useful thanks. I'm actually installing onto a Unix box but was under the impression that the result of installing easy_install was a python script and Ikept looking for "something".py. Your video set me straight and I'm now able to use it - I appreciate it - thanks.
Richard Shea 10 days agoVery good tutorial. Thanks for taking the time to create.
Bob Pauls 10 days agoexcellent video.
voice quality, easy to listen to. problem set up well placed (user can determine if s/he is experiencing issue, ie is this relevant).
not really a python video but nice gentle video like this are great for people becoming acquainted with python from the windows side
hovwvr not keen on speel check in comment section like to mispell its me being human
none given 13 days agoUseful. It seems more simplier than Eclipse. Where can I learn techniques of debugging?
Geissbühler 16 days agoI am just starting to learn this. The recommendations help. I will comment once I get into it a little. kevin
kevin 17 days agoNice clear video - not quite what I was looking for but very useful nonetheless.
Stewart Johnston 18 days agoThis series has sparked my interest, which brings me to the fact that a image sizer wasn't created for the image viewer.
In which case I am now working on an image sizer that will sense the size of the image uploaded and if it is bigger than a set default it will resize the image to that default. You can then resize the image to your liking using a Image > Resize > 10% - 100% MenuBar option.
Would I be allowed to post a video or two explaining how to make that once it's done?
Bloodrun 18 days agoYou certainly got my attention with the "big exercise". I found it rather amusing.
Bloodrun 18 days agoThank you, I had a problem with deleting the old bitmaps stored by my program. As its intention is to be open while the user opens and closes several images.
Bloodrun 18 days agoThank you so much, this video explained two very important details I needed for a project of mine.
Bloodrun 18 days agogreat, thanks
Christoph Dreiser 20 days agovery helpful, thanks
Christoph Dreiser 20 days agoI love your website and that you guys have lots of video tutorials
Kamaal Franklin 22 days agoThank You for telling
Stefan Kluska 23 days agoGood Tutorial!
Jiawei Zhang 24 days agoThank you - this is a lovely clear explanation of how to do this.
Hugh Shanahan 24 days agoThis intro looks promising.
John Arnold 26 days agoJust found the site. this seems to be a good start
Dave Vigliotti 27 days agoJust found the site. this seems to be a good start
Dave Vigliotti 27 days agoVery short, quick and good introduction. Go straight to the main points. Thanks.
Alexandre 27 days agothank you for telling
Stefan Kluska 28 days agoVery informative about python. Clear, Concise and I will be referring back to this site in the future.
Thank you for your efforts Ian (and the rest of the Showmedo team)
Akin 29 days agoAgain, nice presentation of resources.
brian 29 days agoGreet this could help me to learn new program such as python.
Adam Simon 30 days agoBig THANK YOU for this. It's a wonderful world that has people like you in it. Concise to the point instructions to boot.
Suzanne D'Aoust 30 days agoI am a newbie when it comes to command line input, am finding these videos beneficial as preparing me to set-up A.P.A. 6 formatting for my word documents for my college research papers. I made the switch to Linux Ubuntu from windows 7 and now find myself unable to find A.P.A. referencing software due to the change.
obby Laye 31 days agoThis is a good first introduction - but it would be great to also talk about the benefits and user base of python.
Tristan Van Tilborgh 32 days agoThank you, that was very helpful. I would like to see some about basic programing.
anonymous 34 days agothanks - saved me a lot of time as I don't use windows much
anonymous 36 days agoFirst video at showmedo.com... great job! this site goes into my bookmark folder... we expect to see many such videos in the future, where we take a small problem and see how to solve that in python in 5 minutes, something like a cook book..
anonymous 37 days agoThanks for saving me a lot of time as you provided a great overview of the resources available for new python programmers!
anonymous 37 days agoYour video was very informative and has inspired me to create one for Windows 7 users as it is just slightly different (i.e. the control panel setup is different up to the point of clicking on Advance System Settings).
anonymous 37 days agothank you, good help to get started with python
anonymous 40 days agoThank you so much for these videos. I am completely new, and this is my second day with this stuff. I briefly brushed up against C++ 6 years ago and due to a bad teacher, and difficulty with the material, it scared me away from programming. I am now pursuing this purely as a hobby.
anonymous 42 days agoYou are really great at this! Thank you for your time.
anonymous 42 days agoNice demo. Looking for a nice GUI for actual application or"front end" to the Python shell - not just development
anonymous 42 days agoa good overview but where can i see the competed tutotial?
anonymous 43 days agoAll the tutorials in this website are awesome...i am new to python and programming and these tutorials are really good
anonymous 49 days agoGreat start, can't wait to learn more!
anonymous 52 days agoJust getting started here, but it looks great!
anonymous 52 days agoThank you very much for this video, it was really easy to follow and helpful.
anonymous 53 days agoI learned a lot about OpenOffice in this short tutorial that I didn't know. Thanks.
anonymous 53 days agovery nice introduction! Helps learn about great tools!
anonymous 53 days agoExcellent tutorial - thanks for your great presentation.
anonymous 54 days agoTY for this wonderful site, I Just stumbled across this today and will start using it to learn how to program in Python, I have never programed before but I have done some php work and opened up a lot of code in my life and i do have a great understanding of how things work. but now with this site I think I will be able to create, develop, and design some of my own work. TY
anonymous 55 days agoWonderufl
anonymous 55 days agoA well produced and great tutorial.
anonymous 56 days agowhat makes this ide stand out from other products,e.g. eric4, also freely available on linux
anonymous 58 days agoSeems like a good video. It is my first one.
anonymous 61 days agoGood introduction. I'm looking forward to the rest of the video series!
anonymous 61 days agoGreat - just the right bite-sized bit of knowhow, and whets my appetite for more
anonymous 2 months agoThank You very much. I need such tutorial because I am tottaly nob in Python.
anonymous 2 months agoStepping through the debug probe was very helpful.
anonymous 2 months agoNice intro... I've been using Wing for a month now and this short video showed me a few more tidbits. Thx.
anonymous 2 months agoThanks Ian! Didn't know the modules interacted with the python shell. Good to know.
anonymous 2 months agoGood video. Might be a little redundant, but makes everything very thorough. Thanks!
anonymous 2 months agoAnswered my query about how ipython chooses an editor - great. Thanks
anonymous 2 months agoThank you very much for the video. It would be helpful if you could show the example script in the video also. Best wishes, Y.
anonymous 2 months agoGreat, I'm just starting but it is really helpfull.
anonymous 2 months agoNice and clear although it is marked as deprecated.
anonymous 2 months agoGood!
anonymous 2 months agoGood!
anonymous 2 months agoClear & concise - ready to go on!
anonymous 2 months agoVery satisfying!!
anonymous 2 months agoThis is my first experience with Python. The tutorial is very clear and to the point. I find it very encouraging and helpful.
anonymous 2 months agoGlad I found your website. Thanks for the videos.
anonymous 2 months agoKeep the good work going.
anonymous 2 months agoVery nice introduction to your videos. I especially like the highlighting that follows you mouse pointer.
anonymous 2 months agoI like this video, and as a BASIC programmer myself (pun intended) and as someone who is keen to learn a non-Microsoft dependent programming language, this video has really helped me to understand the basics of python and where to go to learn more. Thank you very much Ian!
anonymous 2 months agoSold me on SPE. I'm a vim guy, but I'll give it a try.
anonymous 2 months agoIan,
Nice idea. Just installed and built my first Python program. It is critical for me to know asap if there are extension libraries for using IBM MQ, Oracle and SQL Server. Hooks into Webtrends web analytics I would need if I decided to go with Python as my choice.
Thanks again,
Marius
anonymous 2 months agogreat video - i didn't know how spe looks like and how to use it - i will give it a try now. thanks a lot!
anonymous 2 months agoExcellent instructional/demonstration videos. You have a wonderful voice, a good speech presentation (lacking the usual "..uh.."), and a good use of audio to augment the video.
anonymous 2 months agoInformative,... I was just wondering whether it would be more complicated but it seems like a peace of cake.
It has served me well.
Thank you.
anonymous 3 months agoVery nice English accent and good tutorial. Thanks.
anonymous 3 months agoLooks interesting, thanks!
anonymous 3 months agoPhenominal resource! Makes it so much easier to consider getting into python, very interesting too :)
anonymous 3 months agogreat videos. thanks for taking the time to do them.
anonymous 3 months agoGood job on this. Note: there is a newer version of python - 2.6.4
anonymous 3 months agoTransistion from MS Office
anonymous 3 months agoThis video was very informative. It pointed me in the right direction, as I'm not just a novice to python, I'm a novice to programming in general. Thank you for your efforts. I find more and more resources like this on the internet everyday, and it encourages me greatly that people in the world are freely sharing their knowledge and expertise for the betterment of us all.
anonymous 3 months agoFantastic job. thank you Ian. Thanks to your videos I was able to install CamStudio, configure it and record 3 short videos for my students before today's class.
anonymous 3 months agogreat!
anonymous 3 months agoIts really helpful for installing python on windows, thanks!
anonymous 3 months agoeven more useful than the first. can you do some more about transitioning from c# and MS-DOS
anonymous 3 months agovery good. helpful for those switching language
anonymous 3 months agoGood tutorials. Short and to the point is good. Nothing more daunting than a 2 hour video. The content is well done and direct and concise. Really appreciate your effort.
anonymous 3 months agoGood intro! I am actually looking for a tutorial on how to program Python programmings using Eclipse. All the scripts I have written in the past I was using Notepad++ or gVim, but now I need to evolve to a full featured IDE.
anonymous 3 months agogreat!!
anonymous 3 months agoI think the video showed what I need it is just that I am using Mac
anonymous 4 months agoThe video was very helpful and it teaches a lot, thank you.
anonymous 4 months agoThanks for the quick intro. Very usefull!!!
anonymous 4 months agoI`m totally new to python and find video tutorials much more convenient than text tutorials. Thanks for doing this!
anonymous 4 months agoVery hard to hear, and understand, and speaking way too fast, otherwise good video
anonymous 4 months agoNice intro to resources, and keeping the resources list up-to-date.
anonymous 4 months agoclear illustration , however a little bit fast for me.
anonymous 4 months agoThanks, good intro to debugging on ipython
anonymous 4 months agoI did not like the video of you as far as learning goes. It was a bit distracting. Following you voice and looking at text worked much better for me.
anonymous 4 months agoI like it but i wanted more. I would love to learn about using tk with python. Also does anyone at showmedo use python with "brl-cad." Look forward to using this site often
anonymous 4 months agoVery nice. I am putting together material for in-house training at my company and the videos in this series are quite helpful for those that don't know how to jump in the water.
anonymous 4 months agoThanks for the good intro to SPE. I have a long way to go.
anonymous 4 months agoExcellent how to video. Really helped!!! Many thanks!!!!
anonymous 4 months agoWas looking for some very basic info on Python, preferably all-in-one place. This was very helpful. Thank you!
anonymous 4 months agoThanks Ian. You mention that it is possible to get up and running making screencasts, but then don't point to those resources. For example, what software actually records the screen image with that yellow dot??
anonymous 4 months agoThanks Ian. I'm wondering whether these screencasts can be edited at all.
anonymous 4 months agoThis video was handy, found some things to start fiddling with, I would like to get into programming, and learn more about different programming languages, also JAVA, but if you could continue making videos on how to do things with python, that would be great! Like examples and things as such...
anonymous 4 months agoThis tutorial has been extremely useful, we are looking at using screncasting to supplement written Help on some apps
anonymous 4 months agoI keep teetering back and forth between whether or not I want to dive into expanding my computer knowledge to the programming level. I'd keep reading reddit comments in great detail that were far over my head, but still interesting. This encouraged me to actually try out python, and hopefully move to an advanced level with it. Haha, this comment sounds fake, but it's not.
anonymous 4 months agoAlot of important information very understandable. Verygood!
anonymous 5 months agoVery nice demonstration; very succinct and clear
anonymous 5 months agoThe video tutorial was very informative and easy to understand and follow. Thank you
anonymous 5 months agoi've just started with python and i accumulate tons of pages with tutorials about it, yours are also part of it, so it's helpfull, although i did not know any othe language before, so the second one won't help me
anonymous 5 months agoGood set of vidoes ... i look forward to learning more python in the future.
anonymous 5 months agoI was struggling with the CamStudio configuration until I watched your tutorial. Great stuff! Thanks.
anonymous 5 months agoThanks for your help. I'm ten years old and I'm just learning. I want to learn to program games : ) From Henry.
anonymous 5 months agoNice tutorial, simple, to the point, introduced me to another useful tool. Thanks!
anonymous 5 months agoGreat intro can't wait to get into the meat of the python programming language
anonymous 5 months agoThanks for these videos. I am tryign to teach a co-worker how to code python and I hope that this will let her start to use the line-by-line debugging that will help her start figuring out for herself whats going wrong!
anonymous 5 months agoThanks a ton. Something as simple as this helped me a lot. I could not figure out for the life of me what most of my Google results were trying to explain.
anonymous 5 months agoThanks. Very good brief intro to debugging Python code.
anonymous 5 months agolike Open Office looking forward to learn how to open other Microsft documents with Open Office 3.1
anonymous 5 months agoGreat intro video. I was able to find this on the Django site itself, but still good intro.
anonymous 5 months agoI'm a new user of SPE. This video is very helpful to me
anonymous 5 months agoThanks - concise and informative demo.
anonymous 5 months agoI like the tutorials as they are giving me firm foundation to python programming
anonymous 5 months agoShort an sweet. I on to the next one.
anonymous 5 months agoThankyou voice nice and clear, which i find i take in more.
anonymous 5 months agoThis answered my questions about what larnguages are similar to python
anonymous 5 months agoVery good starter for SPE. I installed SPE for first time in Windows and was wondering how to use it. Thanks.
anonymous 5 months agoAnswered the question "what is Django" in under a minute. Great overview, well done.
anonymous 5 months agoI'm a VB developer just getting into Python. SPE looks like a cracking bit of kit. Thanks for a very useful into, Ian.
anonymous 5 months agoNice basic intro to ipython, haven't coded in over a year and this is helping me to remember.
anonymous 5 months agoOnly watched the intro so far, but looks good. Thanks!
anonymous 5 months agoThe overview shows the 101 series is what I can certainly use.
anonymous 5 months agoVery nice. Thanks for enriching the wxpython community thus.
anonymous 5 months agoGood Start!
anonymous 6 months agoIts great.I was unaware of you website. I just bookmarked it ; I intend to return and learn more.
anonymous 6 months agoLOOKING FORWARD TO VIEWING YOUR TUTORIAL. SO FAR, EXCELLENT
anonymous 6 months agoThanks for putting this together. I am encouraged by what I've seen and intend to purchase the series.
anonymous 6 months ago