Stephen Gruppetta

@stephengruppetta
Rethinking how to teach coding to adults and children
London, UK

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Hello. Following a first career as a research scientist and University academic, I now focus on teaching coding in Python to children and adults.

I enjoy finding new ways of teaching complex and abstract concepts, and this helps me understand them better myself.

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and speaking on twitter spaces.

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Resume

May 2021 - Present

Author of The Python Coding Book, codetoday

Oct 2015 - Present

Director of Studies, codetoday

Links

The Python Coding Place

The Python Coding Stack - Weekly Articles

The Python Coding Book — A relaxed and friendly textbook

Portfolio

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Breaking the Rules - My thoughts on adding more narration to technical writing. And how

Harry Potter and The Object-Oriented Programming Paradigm

The Python Coding Stack

The Python Coding Place

My Real Python articles

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My latest article for Real Python is out today Image Processing With the Python Pillow Library

Using Python's `len()` function - my latest article on Real Python is out today

My latest article on Real Python iis now out. It's about using plt.scatter

My latest tutorial on Real Python was published today Using Python Optional Arguments When Defining Functions

Blogs about Python

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New blog post: a step by step tutorial to write a Python turtle animation which uses named tuples: https://thepythoncodingbook.com/2022/06/12/python-turtle-animation-using-named-tuples-sunrise/

• Do you use `numpy.meshgrid()`? • Do you fully understand it? Even if you do, you may get significant performance improvements if you ditch `meshgrid()` Read the article to find out more… numpy.me...

How are Python iterators dependent on the iterables they were created from? Wait a second, what's the difference between an iterator and an iterable? Here's the article on The Python Coding Book bl...

New blog post just out: Visualising Maths Using Python and Turtle

The Python Coding Book

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We often jump in and out of Matplotlib and find the minimum we need to create the plot we want. However, getting an understanding of what's happening behind the scenes in the library can be very fr...

Published Chapter 9 of The Python Coding Book about Dealing With Dates and Times in Python

When we learn a new topic, it becomes an "acquaintance" of ours. It's only when it becomes our "best friend" that we can truly say we've mastered the topic. In this standalone Chapter of The Python...

The next chapter of The Python Coding Book is now live. Chapter 8: Numerical Python for Quantitative Applications Using NumPy The aim of the Chapter is to introduce the module, show why it's needed...