I'm pleased to announce that over the weekend, I updated interactivepython.org to version 3.0. This release completes another summer of hacking, and integrating contributions from colleagues around the world.

My plan in this post is to briefly summarize some of the highlights of the new release and then …

I am going to have to go to PyCon. Not next year, as I'm going to be in Malta at the time, but hopefully in 2016. I don't know how many people attend, but the number is big, and they have sold old every year for the past three years …

When I moved this blog to Octopress in January, it was inspiring in many ways. There were two things that slightly bugged me.

• Octopress is entirely too ruby based. Rake, and all of that made me feel bad, like I was cheating on Python. Surely there must be a similar …

During my January travels, I also converted this blog from tubmlr, which had been frustrating me for a while, to Octopress, with which I have been very happy. Nothing like hacker level control of your own blog. But more, than just the switch in tools, the move to Octopress inspired …

Today I'm really pleased to announce that  have launched version 2.0 of our interactive computer science  textbooks:

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist:  Interactive Edition 2.0  (CS 1)
• Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python  (CS 2)

We first launched these books on our interactivepython …

I'm finally there.  After a long time of writing books using Python 3, and teaching in Python 3 on a daily basis, I'm finally at the point where I'm changing my work environment to use Python 3 by default.

Here are the signs that convinced me it was time:

• The …

We passed 3 million entries in our log data for InteractivePython.org which got me to wondering about how we are growing. The site has been live for 275 days. You can really see how the site took off after day 100, which makes sense because that was bout the …

I've decided that it will be best to keep my personal blog separate from the new Everyday Python blog project. All of the infrastructure to make the posts interactive just work so much better when I have control of the server and everything else. So You can head over to …

OK, here is the first installment of the new Everyday Python series. Today I'm just providing a link, as I still have some infrastructure work to get done in order to publish each installment both here and at Runestone Interactive.

Generating a password part 1