My objective with this campaign is to raise funds to turn my book, Python 101, into a series of videos. The book, and consequently the video series, is aimed at beginners and intermediate level programmers. 

Note that this series will be based on Python 3

Each of the chapters of the book will be turned into one or more screencasts for a total of at least 44 videos. The first 11 videos will be given away free of charge.

Here is what will be covered:

Part I: Learning the Basics

  • Chapter 1 - IDLE 
  • Chapter 2 - Strings 
  • Chapter 3 - Lists, Tuples and Dictionaries 
  • Chapter 4 - Conditional Statements 
  • Chapter 5 - Loops 
  • Chapter 6 - Python Comprehensions 
  • Chapter 7 - Exception Handling 
  • Chapter 8 - Working with Files 
  • Chapter 9 - Importing 
  • Chapter 10 - Functions 
  • Chapter 11 - Classes

Part II: Learning from the Library 

  • Chapter 12 - Introspection 
  • Chapter 13 - The csv Module 
  • Chapter 14 - The ConfigParser Module 
  • Chapter 15 - The logging Module 
  • Chapter 16 - The os Module 
  • Chapter 17 - The email and smtplib Modules 
  • Chapter 18 - The sqlite Module 
  • Chapter 19 - The subprocess Module
  • Chapter 20 - The sys Module 
  • Chapter 21 - The threading Module 
  • Chapter 22 - The datetime and time Modules 
  • Chapter 23 - The xml Modules 

Part III - Intermediate Odds and Ends 

  • Chapter 24 - The Python Debugger  • Chapter 25 - Decorators 
  • Chapter 26 - The lambda 
  • Chapter 27 - Code Profiling 
  • Chapter 28 - An Intro to Testing 

Part IV - Tips, Tricks and Tutorials 

  • Chapter 29 - Installing Modules 
  • Chapter 30 - ConfigObj
  • Chapter 31 - Parsing XML with lxml 
  • Chapter 32 - Python Code Analysis 
  • Chapter 33 - The requests package 
  • Chapter 34 - SQLAlchemy
  • Chapter 35 - virtualenv 

Part V - Packaging and Distribution

  • Chapter 36 - Creating Modules and Packages 
  • Chapter 37 - How to Add Your Code to PyPI
  • Chapter 38 - The Python egg  
  • Chapter 39 - Python wheels 
  • Chapter 40 - py2exe 
  • Chapter 41 - bbfreeze 
  • Chapter 42 - cx_Freeze 
  • Chapter 43 - PyInstaller
  • Chapter 44 - Creating an Installer

What I Need & What You Get

I have run a successful campaign in the past when I raised funds for the Python 101 book. My biggest challenge is that I work full time, so I will need to carve out some time to get things done. However, I believe I can do this successfully and produce a product that you will enjoy.

Other Ways You Can Help

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About the author

I'm a professional full time Python programmer by day and Python blogger by night. I've been programming almost exclusively in Python for 9 years. Last year I wrote the book, Python 101, which was successfully funded through Kickstarter . I write for the Python Software Foundation from time to time. I also write articles for DZone and i-programmer every now and then. I also co-authored Core Python for DZone.