#006 - The PyBites Python Tips Book

Happy New Year all! A new year, new opportunities :)In this episode we talk about our Python Tips book:1. Why did we write this book?Python books, albeit great, can be pretty dense and time consuming, we wanted to make Python more digestible.We want to instil the the habit of reading code (tool mentioned: https://grep.app/)We want to motivate you to try out code / new libraries.Lastly, we always said we would write a book as PyBites, now at the 4 years mark (19th of Dec 2020) it was about time :)2. What was the mindset / process behind writing this book?We applied the “eat an elephant a bite at a time” famous saying. We launched at 100 tips (= one third of the end goal).We went to market fast, dropping perfectionism.We posted tips to social media for years getting great feedback/ confirmation people actually appreciated / wanted this.Lesson for you: if there is something you want to do, getting started is the hardest, but once you gain momentum it gets easier (tweet: https://twitter.com/bbelderbos/status/1336571553635594243)Productivity, how deep work and time chunking helped in the process.3. Some of our favourite tips from the standard library and external modules.4. What’s next.Get to a physical edition when we hit 300 tips!Make an accompanying Mindset/ Career book (you can get these already subscribing here: https://codechalleng.es/tips)5. Get the book here: https://pybit.es/tips