From Classes to Turtles via Functools and more | May in Review

I kept myself quite busy May. Not only did I finish running the first The Python Coding Programme cohort and starting running the second. I published seven new articles on The Python Coding Stack. Here’s a roundup:

• The second and third Years at Hogwarts School of Codecraft and Algorithmancy are now out. Year 2 deals with defining classes and data attributes and was published on the 2nd of May: Let The Real Magic Begin • Creating Classes in Python. Year 3 focuses on creating methods within those classes and was published on the 17th of May: There’s A Method To The Madness • Defining Methods In Python Classes
• The other ongoing series on The Stack at the moment is about data structure categories. The third instalment in the series was published on the 11th of May and dealt with mappings: Finding Your Way To The Right Value • Python’s Mappings (Data Structure Categories #3)
• Mappings also featured in another article on the 24th of May. This visualised mappings in the context of a real world scenario: The One About The Taxi Driver, Mappings, and Sequences • A Short Trip to 42 Python Street
• On the 7th of May I published a deep dive into the partial() and partialmethod() functions you’ll find in the functools module: Python’s functools.partial() Lets You Pre-Fill A Function
• Most articles on The Python Coding Stack are available for free. However, I occasionally publish articles exclusively for the paid subscribers on the stack. I talked about Deconstructing Ideas And Constructing Code • Using the Store-Repeat-Decide-Reuse Concept on the 20th of May
• And finally, on the 28th of May, I published a step-by-step tutorial using turtle. Those who follow my writing long enough know that I love the turtle module and will return to it from time to time: Zen and The Art of Python `turtle` Animations • A Step-by-Step Guide

Here’s what the animation looks like: