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How do you become better at programming?

You get better at programming just like how you get better at anything else – by practicing. The question is: how to practice in an effective way?

Hands On: Higher Order Functions

In this exercise we are going to get some hands on practice using higher order functions. We are going to have a form simulating a ticket booking UI. The user can enter the number of tickets to book and submit the form to book the tickets. Problem Statement There are three pieces of code that we will deal with in this exercise: * A Form object that accepts the number of tickets to book from the user * A book_tickets function that simulates a call to the backend with the number of tickets t

Introducing Hand-on Exercises

When working on an exercise, you get a coding editor in your web browser where you can type the python code for the exercise, run it and see the output. You don't need to have python or any other software installed on your computer.

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Hands On: The Word Count Problem

We've integrated a python execution environment into the Playful Python site! Not only can you read code, you can now type it out and execute it, online, right here on the site 😎

Python on the browser? Yes, it works!!

Python on the browser? Yes, it works!!

So far, if you wanted to do web development, there was only one choice - Javascript. But that changed now. In this new series, we explore how to use pyscript to run python on the browser.

Understanding function composition

The foundation of programming is to take smaller abstractions and make bigger abstractions out of it. In the previous articles in this series, we learned about using functions to create abstractions. Now let us look at how to join them up together using functional composition.

Impure functions

Functions that return the same output when given the same input are called pure functions. Then what are impure functions?

Python Decorators

You come across decorators when working in many frameworks. Here is how they work.

Higher Order Functions

In this article we look at higher order functions, which are the bedrock of functional programming style

Tweeting sessions from PyCon US 2022

Tweeting sessions from PyCon US 2022

This is just a quick announcement that we will be tweeting session contents from PyCon US on the playful python twitter account. Follow the twitter account to keep up with the talks. Once the event is over we will do deep dives into some of the topics.

Functions as parameters

In this article we take a look at functional abstractions using filter and sorted as examples.

First class functions

Functions are "first class citizens" in python. In this article we will take a look at what that means.

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