Three members of the Real Python team are joining us this week: Kate Finegan, Tappan Moore, and Philipp Acsany. We wanted to share a year-end wrap-up with tutorials, step-by-step projects, code conversations, and video courses that showcase what our team created this year.

Kate helps to shepherd articles through the multi-stage editing process. She and the rest of the team ensure these resources impart crucial Python knowledge and provide a thorough didactic experience. Kate was also instrumental in helping introduce a new group of tutorial authors to the Real Python editorial process and house style.

Philipp returns to the podcast after our conversation earlier this year, and it was great to talk to him about onboarding new video instructors. Tappan edits all our video courses and ensures that the sound, picture, and animations are just right. He also helped provide feedback to the new instructors on our video creation process.

We hope you enjoy this review! We look forward to bringing you another year full of great guests, articles, and topics.

Course Spotlight: Recursion in Python

A recursive function is one that calls itself. In this video course, you’ll see what recursion is, how it works in Python, and under what circumstances you should use it.

Topics:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction
• 00:02:50 – New Video Instructors
• 00:05:31 – New Tutorial Authors
• 00:07:37 – Shout-out to Aldren Santos
• 00:09:27 – Build a Wordle Clone With Python and Rich
• 00:11:37 – Python Classes: The Power of Object-Oriented Programming
• 00:13:43 – SOLID Principles: Improve Object-Oriented Design in Python
• 00:14:47 – Using the NumPy Random Number Generator
• 00:17:58 – Recursion in Python
• 00:19:44 – Filtering Iterables With Python
• 00:21:04 – Creating Web Maps From Your Data With Python Folium
• 00:24:51 – Video Course Spotlight
• 00:26:13 – Python Basics Exercises: Building Systems With Classes
• 00:31:00 – Real Python Quizzes
• 00:33:53 – Process Images Using the Pillow Library and Python
• 00:36:00 – How to Sort Unicode Strings Alphabetically in Python
• 00:38:36 – The Python Rich Package: Unleash the Power of Console Text
• 00:42:31 – Embeddings and Vector Databases With ChromaDB
• 00:46:41 – Advent of Code: Solving Puzzles With Python
• 00:51:07 – Thanks and goodbye

Show Links:

• Build a Wordle Clone With Python and Rich – Step-by-Step Project
• Python Classes: The Power of Object-Oriented Programming – Tutorial
• SOLID Principles: Improve Object-Oriented Design in Python – Tutorial
• Using the NumPy Random Number Generator – Tutorial
• Recursion in Python – Video Course
• Filtering Iterables With Python – Video Course
• Creating Web Maps From Your Data With Python Folium – Video Course
• Python Basics Exercises: Building Systems With Classes – Video Course
• Process Images Using the Pillow Library and Python – Video Course
• How to Sort Unicode Strings Alphabetically in Python – Tutorial
• The Python Rich Package: Unleash the Power of Console Text – Showcase
• Embeddings and Vector Databases With ChromaDB – Tutorial
• Advent of Code: Solving Puzzles With Python – Code Conversation

Additional Links:

• Create a Python Wordle Clone With Rich – Video Course
• Class Concepts: Object-Oriented Programming in Python – Video Course
• Inheritance and Internals: Object-Oriented Programming in Python – Video Course
• Design and Guidance: Object-Oriented Programming in Python – Video Course
• FTX Python code ‘allowed’ Alameda Research to spend deposits - The Register
• Recursion in Python: An Introduction – Tutorial
• Python’s filter(): Extract Values From Iterables – Tutorial
• Python Folium: Create Web Maps From Your Data – Step-by-Step Project
• Episode #12: Web Scraping in Python: Tools, Techniques, and Legality – The Real Python Podcast
• Python Basics: Building Systems With Classes – Video Course
• Image Processing With the Python Pillow Library – Tutorial
• Episode #80: Make Your Python App Interactive With a Text User Interface (TUI) – The Real Python Podcast

Level up your Python skills with our expert-led courses:

• Recursion in Python
• Process Images Using the Pillow Library and Python
• Python Basics Exercises: Building Systems With Classes

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