Python Ireland April 2025 Meetup

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The Flask Mega-Tutorial: A detailed look at a successful project that helped many developers learn web development with Python. (suitable for everyone)

The Flask Mega-Tutorial was born as a series of blog posts in 2012, and from there it went on to become one of the most used and referenced by developers learning this framework. In this post I'll go over the history of this tutorial and why it is still relevant in 2025.

Author: Miguel Grinberg
[Miguel Grinberg has over 25 years of experience as a software engineer. He is the author of several books and he maintains a blog at miguelgrinberg.com about a variety of topics including Web development, Python, JavaScript and robotics. Miguel currently lives in Ireland.]

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Introduction to Pytch: Many young people start coding with block-based systems like MIT’s Scratch. When the time comes to move to a text-based language like Python, they often struggle to express themselves in text at the same time as they have to leave behind the familiar sprite-based world.
We have developed Pytch, a free online system to bridge the gap from Scratch to Python. In Pytch, you can create games, animations, and so on, using Scratch’s ideas of sprites and scripts. In this presentation, we will explain Pytch in more detail, and live-code a simple game. Bring a laptop and follow along!

Author: Ben North
[Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin.
Helping people to create their own technology, not just consume technology made by others. Free/open-source software, in education in particular.]

Big thanks to our sponsor for this edition, Workday