What are the new ways we can teach and share our knowledge about Python? How can we improve the structure of our current offerings and build new educational resources for our audience of Python learners? This week on the show, Real Python core team members Stephen Gruppetta and Martin Breuss join us to discuss enhancements to the site and new ways to learn Python.

Stephen has recently joined the team, bringing years of online training expertise. He discusses our new offering of cohort-based courses, which combine live expert instruction, hands-on exercises, and a supportive community.

Martin has been busy leading the effort to create quizzes for our written tutorials to test your knowledge and Python skills. He’s also restructuring the learning paths to provide a more consistent way to navigate your journey learning Python.

Stephen is currently working on new Real Python books. These books will be collections of our tutorials based on specific Python topics and edited to provide a more structured learning experience. The first book, which covers object-oriented programming in Python, will be available in the next few months.

This episode is sponsored by Sentry.

Course Spotlight: Handling or Preventing Errors in Python: LBYL vs EAFP

In this video course, you’ll explore two popular coding styles in Python: Look Before You Leap (LBYL) and Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission (EAFP). These approaches help you handle errors and exceptional situations in your code effectively. You’ll dive into the key differences between LBYL and EAFP and learn when to use each one.

Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:02:29 – What Stephen has been up to
00:03:31 – What’s new for Martin
00:04:07 – Bringing on new team members
00:06:09 – Cohort-based courses
00:19:25 – Sponsor: Sentry
00:20:27 – Restructured and new learning paths
00:30:50 – Video Course Spotlight
00:32:19 – New Real Python Books
00:38:57 – A destination for learning
00:40:46 – Quizzes for tutorials and courses
00:44:58 – Video courses and updating content
00:47:52 – Code Mentor
00:49:45 – Code challenges
00:51:06 – Thanks and goodbye

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