Students from my first-year Object-Oriented Programming class managed to do some interesting things with JavaFX this semester.

Python proved to be an ideal tool when I needed to scrobble music tracks from a media player lacking native Last.fm support.

Despite its general elegance, there are still a few design warts lurking in Python. One surprising omission is a direct equivalent to the printf found in C, Java, etc.

Reflections on my first experience of participating in the Nesta Open Data Challenge Series.

Part 3 of the series considers how programs can be written in Python to acquire and process data from the sources discussed in earlier articles.

Part 2 of the series discusses some other sources of web-accessible data and gives examples that will be used in the final article of the series.

First in a series of articles looking at web-accessible data and how it can be acquired and processed using Python. Part 1 focuses on how data from devices is made available over the web and considers the different data formats that are used.