Welcome to Pydagogue

Pydagogue is a collection of tutorials that came to me while working on python things like nipy.

Some pages that started here, have moved to their own sites:

• the curious coder’s guide to git - understanding git from ideas to practice;

• pages about developing on macOS;

Contents:

• Notes and tutorials on Python
  • What is a decorator?
  • What is a decorator, really?
  • Python and unicode
  • Installing python scripts
  • Using Microsoft Visual C with Python
  • Using Pip on Debian / Ubuntu
  • Debian and Ubuntu Python package paths
  • Clean out packages installed with easy_install
• Notes and tutorials on git
  • The curious coder’s guide to git
  • Working with git remotes
  • Git push algorithm
  • Git object types
  • Reading git objects
  • Git foundations
  • Rebase without tears
  • Pain in the dots
  • Two and three dots with log
  • Two and three dots with diff
  • Git submodules
  • Using vim as a mergetool in git
  • Getting started with git gui on Windows
  • Deleting your master branch
  • Gitwash build
• General computing
  • Introducing Unicode
  • XML from absolutely nothing
  • Points on floats
  • Floating point error
  • Developing on windows
  • Developing on linux
  • Bare metal WAF
  • Windows DLLs - information
  • Notes on Windows containers
  • Notes on Python compiled with MinGW-w64