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Besides teaching Python at Treehouse, Kenneth Love is a husband & father. He created a few popular Python libraries, worked at most levels of the web stack, & was the Creative Director of a newspaper. He likes board games, whiskey, activism, & dry humor.
January 18, 2023 in Learn
It’s safe to say that us developers enjoy programming day in and day out. We also really like making money and being able to feed ourselves and our families. But, we may not want to necessarily work in an office…
October 19, 2016 in Learn
A friend of mine messaged me the other day. Even though they’ve been in the technology industry for awhile, they just recently landed their first engineering job. So, with this first job, they’re feeling pressure to look like they know…
October 13, 2015 in Learn
The tech world can be amazing. The open source community gives us thousands of useful tools, there are countless meetups every day for any language you want, and, thanks to sites like Stack Overflow, whatever problem you’re having right now…
July 27, 2015 in Learn
Django Girls Installathon at Treehouse headquarters in Portland, Ore., July 17, 2015. (Kenneth Love) I recently released Treehouse’s first Django course. So, I thought it might be a good idea to talk about why you’d choose Django over other frameworks. Django is my favorite framework…
May 18, 2015 in Learn
A few weeks ago, I watched an episode of Numberphile about the Monty Hall problem. This happens to be one of my favorite little “that-doesn’t-seem-right” statistics things, and I thought it would be a great way to play with Python….
October 27, 2014 in Learn
Operator Overloading in Python Python is an interesting language. It’s meant to be very explicit and easy to work with. But what happens when how you want or need to work with Python isn’t just what the native types expose?…
September 15, 2014 in Learn
Learn in-demand programming skills and become a certified Python Developer with the Treehouse Techdegree Program. Start your free seven days of learning now. Simplify your Python loops If you’re like most programmers, you know that, eventually, once you have an array,…
August 11, 2014 in Learn
When I started at Treehouse, I only had one mission: Teach Python. Seems easy enough. But I was immediately hit with a bit of a problem. Which version of Python should I teach? Python 2, started in 2000 and slated…
July 8, 2014 in Learn
Learn in-demand programming skills and become a certified Python Developer with the Treehouse Techdegree Program. Learn more and enroll today. When I need to build a web app, I reach for the Python programming language. When I need to automate some small task…