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+title: "Lecture updates — August 2–9, 2026"
+author: QuantEcon
+excerpt: "Updates to the QuantEcon lectures."
+tag: [lectures]
+---
+
+- 📚 **[lecture-intro.zh-cn](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-intro.zh-cn/releases/tag/publish-2026aug07b)** — Added Google Analytics tracking to the Chinese-language introductory lecture materials.
+  - [Enable Google Analytics](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-intro.zh-cn/pull/289)
+
+- 📚 **[A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python](https://intro.quantecon.org/)** — Added a new lecture covering statistical distribution fitting techniques, expanding the course's applied statistics content with practical Python-based data analysis methods.
+  - [New lecture: Fitting Distributions to Data](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-intro/pull/814)
+
+- 📚 **[lecture-python-programming.fr](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fr/releases/tag/publish-2026aug03)** — Enabled the language switcher for the French edition of the lecture-python-programming site, allowing users to navigate between language versions.
+  - [Enable the language switcher for the French edition](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fr/pull/21)
+
+- 📚 **[lecture-python-programming.fa](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fa/releases/tag/publish-2026aug03)** — Added language switcher support and corrected site URLs for the Persian (`fa`) edition of the lecture-python-programming course.
+  - [Enable the language switcher and fix this edition's site URLs](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fa/pull/145)
+
+- 📚 **[lecture-python-programming.zh-cn](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.zh-cn/releases/tag/publish-2026aug03)** — Fixed the language switcher functionality and corrected URLs in the Chinese configuration for the `lecture-python-programming.zh-cn` site.
+  - [Enable the language switcher and fix URLs copied from the English config](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.zh-cn/pull/80)
+
+- 📚 **[Python Programming for Economics and Finance](https://python-programming.quantecon.org/)** — Added language switcher support for Persian, French, and Simplified Chinese editions of the Python Programming for Economics and Finance lecture series.
+  - [Add language switcher support for fa, fr and zh-cn editions](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming/pull/490)