@ntoll visits Adafruit and talks with Ladyada about all things Python, education, communities, and the Mu editor.

Mu is a simple code editor for beginner programmers based on the feedback given to and experiences of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s education team. Having said that, Mu is for anyone who wants to use a simple “no frills” editor.

Mu is a modal editor with modes for Adafruit’s CircuitPython, the micro:bit’s version of MicroPython and standard Python 3 (including a graphical debugger). All modes make available a REPL (either running on the connected CircuitPython or MicroPython device or as a Jupyter based iPython session in Python3 mode).

It’s written in Python and works on Windows, OSX, Linux and Raspberry Pi.

Nicholas Tollervey is a classically trained musician, philosophy graduate, teacher, writer and software developer. Nicholas has been programming since 1984 when he taught himself using his school’s BBC B. He’s been online since 1994 and made software development his career in 2002 & is a Python fellow.

Mu is a simple code editor for beginner programmers. It’s written in Python and works on Windows, OSX, Linux and Raspberry Pi.

Code With Mu

mu-editor/mu (GitHub)

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@pdxpython @gizm0_0 informative talk on MicroPython

Getting started guide for the ESP32 using MicroPython & Adafruit HUZZAH32

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CircuitPython Weekly for March 26th, 2018

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May 2018 – The PyCon 2018 conference, which will take place in Cleveland, is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. It is produced and underwritten by the Python Software Foundation, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing and promoting Python. Through PyCon, the PSF advances its mission of growing the international community of Python programmers. Adafruit is a sponsor, we’ll see you in the goodie bag 🙂

Latest releases

CircuitPython’s stable release is 2.2.4 and its unstable release is 3.0.0-alpha.3. New to CircuitPython? Start with our Welcome to CircuitPython Guide.

20180324 is the latest CircuitPython library bundle.

v1.9.3 is the latest MicroPython release. Documentation for it is here.

3.6.4 is the latest Python release.

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