Free Python decorator workshops - Graham Dumpleton

I've been working on a set of interactive workshops on Python decorators and they are now available for free on the labs page of this site. There are 22 workshops in total, covering everything from the fundamentals of how decorators work through to advanced topics like the descriptor protocol, async decorators and metaclasses. The workshops are hosted on the Educates training platform and accessed through the browser, so there is nothing to install. An experiment in learning We are well into the age of AI at this point. Need to know how to write a decorator in Python? Just ask ChatGPT or Claude and you will get an answer in seconds. Want to refactor some code to use decorators? Let an AI agent do it for you. The tools are genuinely impressive and I use them myself every day. That said, as someone who spent years as a developer advocate helping people learn, the question that keeps coming up is whether there is still an appetite for actually learning how things work. Not just getting an