Video version: Sometimes we want to run a code depending on if one or more conditions apply (the user’s age is more than 18 or the temperature is lower than a 100 degrees). That’s when we use conditionals. If Let’s…
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Beginner Python tutorial – 01 – Print, Variables & Input
This is your first approach to Python but don’t worry, it’s going to be easy. We will learn about how to print information, how to ask the user for information and how to store that information.
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Beginner Python tutorial – 00 – Introduction
In this video, I explain how the series is going to be structured and how we are going to learn.
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Let’s Learn About… Python!
Always wanted to learn Python? You tried to start but you always say “Tomorrow I’ll start” but then tomorrow never comes? Tired of tutorials with hundreds of minutes of theory and no real coding? Do you want to switch careers…
Continue ReadingScrapy: How to use the shell
After learning how to get the details of an item in the last post, we are done with the basics and now It’s time you learn how to do it on your own, with a website of your choosing. Today…
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Review: REST APIs with Django
Do you know what a REST API can do? You want to create them but don’t know where to start? Don’t worry: REST APIs with Django makes it easy.
Continue ReadingScrapy: Getting all the details
At the last post we used the pagination of the website, visiting all the pages it had to offer. But most of the times all the information isn’t displayed; for that you have to visit the details section of each…
Continue ReadingScrapy: Visiting ‘next’ pages
Last time we created our spider and scraped everything from the first page. But what when a website has more than one page? Let’s learn how we can send the bot to the next page until reaches the end. Our…
Continue ReadingScrapy: Setting up our first spider
We are going to set up and launch our very first spider (a bot) that will crawl quotes.toscrape and grab quotes from famous people right now, so grab yourself your favourite drink (hot or cold) and let’s have fun with…
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Review: A Smarter Way to Learn Python
Are you a Python beginner? Do you want to learn Python but you haven’t written the first line of code yet? If you need a jumpstart with Python, check this book.
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