Tag: Python

Cleveland, Where My Ladies At?

Posted on by Marissa Utterberg in Inspiration, Project-Based Learning

Tech Ladies, PyLadies, RLadies, DjangoGirls, BlackGirlsCode, WomenWhoCode, Women in Tech... It has been bugging me lately that there are no active women in tech groups near me. Girls Who Code seems to have a presence here, but the local chapter of Women Who Code has had no activity in almost a year. The closest consistently … Continue reading Cleveland, Where My Ladies At? →

Unexpectedly Open Source

Posted on by Marissa Utterberg in Development, Inspiration

Well...I finally made my first pull request to a public repo on GitHub. Fixing a typo in documentation isn't exactly coding, but it's still a contribution! Hopefully I will progress to intentionality in open source, but happening upon typos to correct is what I have time for until the school year ends. Baby steps.

Deep Magic

Posted on by Marissa Utterberg in Development, Project-Based Learning

I'm not sure exactly which turn in the rabbit hole led me to this point, but I spent my evening reading through the documentation and code in my forked & cloned copy of CPython in Atom. Who am I anymore??? Anyway, I find myself increasingly appreciative of the touches of whimsy in Python. The Zen … Continue reading Deep Magic →

Python on the Brain

Posted on by Marissa Utterberg in Data Science, Inspiration

From neuroscience data mining to simply sinking Battleships, Python is a versatile tool explicitly developed to maximize whimsy. For power or for play, no wonder I have Python on the brain.