Welcome to the Intermediate Python Workshop!

Date: Saturday, July 28th, 2012
Time: 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
Location: Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
Audience: Intermediate Python programmers
RSVP: http://bostonpython.com
Description: Level up your Python through your choice of a dozen bite-sized projects that introduce you to practical applications of the language. We’ll provide the projects and friendly helpers; you bring a laptop and enthusiasm. You’ll rotate through the projects that interest you the most at your own pace, and we’ll have breaks for lightning talks on awesome Python libraries and applications.

We’ll have bite-sized projects on the following topics, and more:

Building Web Applications with Django
Interacting with a Database in Python
Data Analysis with Matplotlib
The Twitter API
Regular Expressions and Cheating at Words with Friends

Registration

To attend the workshop, please RSVP through the Boston Python user group. You'll need to create a meetup.com account to RSVP. If you RSVP and then decide that you aren't attending, please update your status through the meetup.com interface so we can notify someone from the waitlist.

If the event is full, please sign up for the wait list. If spots open up, meetup.com will let you know. We'll also give priority to wait-listers for future workshops.

Schedule

10:30am - 12:00pm: Project #1
12:00pm - 1:00pm, lunch and demos: meet fellow Pythonistas over pizza (sponsored by the Python Software Foundation!) and watch some fun and practical Python demos
1pm - 2:30pm: Project #2
2:30pm - 4:00pm: Project #3
4:00pm - 4:30pm: Wrap-up

Resources

Venue and Logistics

If you have questions about the event, please get in touch with us by sending mail to bpw-staff@lists.openhatch.org.

Location

MIT is hosting this event.

We'll be in room 4-237 for both days of the event. That's MIT-speak for "building 4, room 237 on the 2nd floor". See this map of campus for where building 4 is.

Transportation and Parking

The closest T stop is the Kendall T stop on the Red Line.
The closest bus stop is the 84 Massachusetts Avenue stop on the #1.
There is paid garage parking at 5 Cambridge Center and at 1 Kendall Square (by the Kendall Square Cinema).

Childcare

If you need help making childcare arrangements to be able to attend this workshop, please get in touch with us.

Dietary restrictions

We are providing lunch on Saturday. If you have dietary restrictions, please include them with your RSVP to the event or e-mail us as you RSVP.

Social media

The Boston Python Workshop runs under the auspices of the Boston Python user group, which you can find on Twitter as @bostonpython.
We use the hashtag #bospythonworkshop.