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by jventura 9y ago
I've included a pandoc generated epub and it seems ok on my computer, would anyone be able to test it on a epub device to see if it works ok? https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python/releases/
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by jventura 9y ago
I will check if i can produce an epub easily! Thanks for all sugestions..
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by jventura 9y ago
Definitely, the problem with leanpub is that they ask for 99$ to start a book. I thought about that before, but i don't know if i could sell enough books to recover at least that inital value..
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by jventura 9y ago
If enough people are interested, i may try to do something with pandoc to generate an ebook!
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At full speed with Python: a book for self-learners(github.com)
304 points by jventura 9y ago|50 comments
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by jventura 9y ago
Hi HN, this is a book with some programming exercises that I have been using on my classes so that students can get up-to speed with python. It is quite incomplete and with a lot of errors. Since my available time is short, and I'm no
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Python programming exercises [pdf](joaoventura.net)
3 points by jventura 9y ago|1 comments
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by jventura 9y ago
Lots of good stuff already in the comments! Here are some examples/tutorials I wrote on my blog: - A TDD approach for building a simple microprocessor model in Python: http://joaoventura.net/blog/2017/simple-m
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by jventura 9y ago
I'm a university professor, and there's no way i can afford personally 1$/month per student. And definitely the school won't allow me the budget. "Use the lab computers", they'll say.. So I don't know
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A blog post similar to this one (same content) that I did last year. I use it as basis for a small project on how to implement an http server from scratch in my distributed computing classes: http://joaoventura.net/blog&#x2F
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by jventura 9y ago
What is so interesting about amateur radio, besides talking to other people? Could you expand a little bit on this? This is an honest question, as I used to be a licensed user of CB radios but the bad mood of truck drivers and mIRC (interne
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by jventura 9y ago
Agree.. There's also some things that you can't do with "bag-of-words" methods, such as handling multi-words because for those, the order of words is relevant.
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by jventura 9y ago
One thing that I don't know if it's possible with homebrew is installing previous versions of packages. For instance, brew install python3 installs python 3.6. How can I install python3.5?
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by jventura 9y ago
Two years ago I did something similar to what you've done, ie drop sugar, but I never stopped eating pasta, bread or white potatoes (although I dropped considerably my intake of bread), and I still did lose some weight. I did not incre
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Ask HN: Any single developers or small teams making a living from desktop apps?
1 points by jventura 9y ago|1 comments
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by jventura 9y ago
Lots of things but regarding side projects I built http://mockrest.com which allows people to implement json APIs for testing. It doesn't have much traction but works by itself and I use it for my web development classes..
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by jventura 9y ago
Hi there, I'm assuming TA means Teaching Assistant. I'm a CS teacher on a small polytechnic university and I'm looking for ways to transition some of my current courses from lecture-based with labs to project-based like this
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by jventura 9y ago
Could it be that it happens only on Macbooks? Maybe someone with a Macbook will still read this and answers..
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> This mentality is the reason why... The way I see the post you're replying to is either you learn to cope with these things or you'll burn out faster. Since there's no accountability, if you want to do things the right w
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by jventura 9y ago
Done, thanks! https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/issues/63
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by jventura 9y ago
Thanks for your suggestion. So I've tested on a Xubuntu 16.04 installation on VirtualBox, and it takes 3-4 seconds to boot LibreOffice Writer. It has something to do with macOS X...
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by jventura 9y ago
I have been using LibreOffice for three years on my Mac (retina MacBook Pro 13", ssd and all) and it usually takes more than 20 seconds to start. It has been happening ever since the change to the new GUI. Is it just me? I've sinc
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by jventura 9y ago
Thanks for your project, I've downloaded some ebooks and it was great to read them. I would just like to let you that, at least on my ereader (sony prs t1), the book covers do not show at all. I looked at the epub source and I think I
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by jventura 9y ago
Yours remind me when I was also a radio aficionado many years ago, one night my upstairs neighbor called me because each time I pressed the button to talk, my voice would come out from her TV. I was basically ruining her favorite soap opera
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by jventura 9y ago
> This thinking is hurting me though because it makes every job I ever had barely tolerable, slowly creeping towards miserable after enough time. Profound changes in life are not easy, and feeling miserable is a sign that you probably ha
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by jventura 9y ago
> Bad sleep (I now use the calculator at sleepyti.me and have had great results) Interesting site, didn't knew about it! I've checked it out, and as I wake everyday at 7am, it suggests me four different hours: 10pm, 11:30pm, 1a
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> Support brains and developer brains are actually not that different. Others have already commented on this sentence, but I would like to add that the real problem is context switching. For instance, because I know I take too much time
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by jventura 9y ago
Most of my facebook "friends" didn't even noticed I've quit some months ago. For those that ask, I say that it consumed too much battery..
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by jventura 9y ago
In my opinion, and assuming the author is talking about learning C as first language, my answer is that it depends. It depends on what you're trying to do with what you're learning, and what you will do after. Basically, if you&#x
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by jventura 9y ago
It seems quite good but I'm very intolerant of 16:9 screens. It's a no-go for me..

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