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Dabeaz is David Beazley, a computer scientist, educator, and researcher with more than 35 years of experience. Dave has been most visible in the Python community where he has created various software packages, given conference talks, tutorials, and is known as the author of Python Distilled (Addison-Wesley), the Python Essential Reference (Addison-Wesley), and the Python Cookbook (O'Reilly Media). He supports this work by offering a variety of advanced computer science and programming courses.
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Upcoming Courses
- Rafting Trip, January 5-9, 2026. Learn about network programming, concurrency, distributed systems, and more as you tackle the challenge of implementing the Raft distributed consensus algorithm--and likely failing.
- Advanced Programming with Python, January 26-30, 2026. Take your programming and problem solving skills to the next level as I try to combine almost every difficult programming issue I've encountered over the years into a single course.
- Write a Compiler, February 16-20, 2026. Write a compiler for a new programming language.
- Ruckus, March 23-26, 2026. Get right to the heart of what Rust programming is all about by implementing the core of a small programming language in it. Not for the timid.
- Crusty Interpreter, April 20-24, 2026. Take on the challenge of writing an interpreter in Rust for the Lox language as presented in the Crafting Interpreters book.
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP), June 1-5, 2026. Shatter your brain into bits as you tackle one of the classic texts of computer science. Presented in the original Scheme programming language.
More information on courses can be found here.
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Ray Tracing in One Weekend
Published: September, 2025 • Part 1 • Part 2
In this seven hour video series, presented without commerical interruption, I work through Peter Shirley's Ray Tracing in One Weekend tutorial in Rust. If you're new to Rust, this might give you a nice taste for the basics of the language. The video captures every keystroke without edits--perfect if you want to work along with the project yourself.
The Python Programming Language
Published: August, 2016
Addison-Wesley.
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In this highly rated video training, David Beazley covers the essential features of Python programming through a series of practical programming examples. The course provides programmers with an accelerated introduction to the essential parts of Python. Those with some previous Python experience will benefit from being exposed to modern Python style and programming idioms used by experienced programmers.
Latest Talks and Tutorials
Dimensional Shifting
July 7, 2023
TNG Big Tech Day, Munich, Germany.
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An post-pandemic intersectional exploration of Raft, lambda calculus, and category theory. Do formal systems inform actual systems? I don't know, but this talk suggests that they might.
Keynote: The Problem with the Problem
February 22, 2022
PyCon Sri Lanka
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What happens when you give a problem for beginners to professionals? You might uncover a lot of problems.
Learn Python
For more than a decade, I developed and taught a pair of Python courses that were primarily used for corporate training. These were taught to more than 400 groups all over the world, by myself and some of Python's foremost experts. I've since released the courses under a Creative Commons license. Ad-free, SEO-free, AI-free. Simply click the link and go straight to the course!