If you would like me to speak at your event – be it a local meetup or an international conference –, drop me a line! Sharing knowledge is a passion of mine and public speaking is an excellent outlet for that.
This practical workshop presented the audience with several exercises on comprehensions (list, set, dictionary & generator expressions) and idioms around their usage.
After my first lightning talk was so well-received, I came back to show a different type of animation where we make a recursive drawing that zooms in infinitely.
In this talk I helped the audience discover the immense potential of Python's list comprehensions, dictionary comprehensions, set comprehensions, and generator expressions, as I presented them as an idiom that focuses on data transformations.
This talk complemented my tutorial on the same subject, but the talk hadn't been accepted for the original schedule. However, I stepped in when a speaker had to cancel a few days before the conference.
In this lightning talk I show how to create simple animations in Python and pygame from first principles, from drawing a circle to morphing it into a figure eight.
This talk is a personal account of the things that I do differently in Python after having learned APL, a language that seemingly had nothing to do with Python and nothing to offer with respect to my Python code.
In this lightning talk I wanted to share my personal story of how learning how to program in APL ended up teaching me things about Python.
In this poster session, I make the claim that the vast majority of people don't know comprehensions well enough! Thankfully, this is very easy to fix!
Dozens approached me during my poster presentation – which I repeated tirelessly from noon until 3 pm because people just kept showing up – and I am very proud to say that my poster (presentation) got a lot of praise.
But, most importantly, I got feedback from people that learned new things about list comprehensions thanks to my poster.
In this impromptu talk, I gave an introduction to dunder methods for a beginner audience.
__init__
, and about __str__
and __repr__
This talk had not been scheduled in advance! There was a last-minute cancellation and the organisation reached out to me to fill in the slot.
In this impromptu Python tutorial, I gave a practical introduction to descriptors.
This tutorial had not been scheduled in advance. The day before, I noticed there was an empty slot in the schedule. After talking to the organisers, we concluded it was OK for me to use that slot and so I whipped up a short, practical tutorial for descriptors!
I got incredible feedback! A participant, Sofia, wrote:
“Fantastic workshop about descriptors! I came out of it having learnt a lot about what goes on in the background. Really loved the friendly approach and the practical exercises with solutions so that everyone can follow. Keep going 🚀”
In this Python tutorial, I introduce people to Textual by building a TODO that runs in a terminal.
Alexander attended my tutorial and he wrote “Rodrigo did a really good job with the tutorial. I hope he starts teaching more regularly because his tutorial was fun and I learned a lot.”
Original photo by Braulio Lara.
In this Python talk, I introduce descriptors and show they are not black magic.
I was scheduled to give this talk in person but I had a family emergency and couldn't attend. Later, I recorded the talk at home and made it unofficially available online.
In this Python talk, I continuously refactored a piece of code by using Python features elegantly.
In this Python talk, I teach the key ideas necessary for you to finally understand list, dict, and set comprehensions, and generator expressions.
In this lightning talk, I show how functools.reduce
is such an important function that we use implicitly when we call built-ins like sum
and all
.
This was my very first appearance at an in-person conference... And I just loved it...
In this Python tutorial, I show how Python uses dunder methods to define how objects (built-ins and custom objects) interact with the Python syntax.
In this Python talk I share some insights on how to avoid learning plateaus in Python.
In this talk I show how learning APL influenced the way I write Python code. For example, I show how APL helped me understand how list comprehensions work.
In this Python talk, I continuously refactored a piece of code by using Python features elegantly.
In this Python talk, I went over +10 implementations of a very simple function while exploring elegance, simplicity, and some intricate Python subtleties.
In this 2-part Python tutorial, I introduce classes in Python and then proceed to show how Python uses dunder methods to define how objects (built-ins and custom objects) interact with the Python syntax.
In this Python talk, I continuously refactored a piece of code by using Python features elegantly.
In this Python talk, I continuously refactored a piece of code by using Python features elegantly.
This was my very first conference talk and what I consider a great milestone in my career.
In this Python talk, I continuously refactored a piece of code by using Python features elegantly.
This was my very first conference appearance and a moment I have very fond memories of!
In this Python tutorial, I guided attendees in their journey to implementing a full neural network with nothing but NumPy.