Portland Python Workshop

Welcome to the first Portland Python Workshop: a project-driven introduction to Python for women and their friends!

This workshop is running on the evening of Friday, June 22nd, and all day Saturday, June 23rd at Idealist (Action Without Borders) in Portland, OR.

• Photos from previous Boston Python Workshops that inspired this event
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Check out more photos from past Boston Python Workshops on Flickr.

Registration

To attend the workshop, please RSVP through the Portland 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.

You must be able to attend both days of the workshop to participate.

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

• Friday evening, 6pm-9pm: set up your development environment, learn how to execute Python code from a file and interactively from a Python prompt, and learn about printing and using Python as a calculator.
• Saturday morning setup, 9:30am-10am: settle in, get your laptop set up, and review Friday's material. We will start the lecture promptly at 10.
• Saturday morning, 10am-noon: a 2 hour lecture-based introduction to the language.
• Saturday lunch, noon-1pm: we'll provide lunch. Please e-mail us with dietary restrictions as you RSVP.
• Saturday afternoon, 1pm-4pm: break out into groups to practice Python through short projects on a variety of fun and practical topics.
• Saturday wrap-up, 4pm-4:30pm: wrap-up, next steps, and upcoming opportunities for learning and practicing Python.

Resources

• Friday setup and tutorial
• Saturday lecture
• Saturday projects
• ColorWall slides
• wrap-up slides
• Friday CodingBat
• Saturday morning CodingBat
• Saturday afternoon CodingBat

Venue and Logistics

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

Location

Idealist (Action Without Borders) is hosting this event. Idealist is located at:

209 SW Oak St.
6th Floor
Portland, OR 97204

Transportation and Parking

• Nearest MAX station: Blue/Red line - Oak/SW 1st, Yellow/Green line - SW 5th & Oak St.
• Nearest Bus lines: Too many to list
• Plan your public transit trip at Trimet.
• On-street metered parking
• Parking lots/garages at 3rd & Oak, 3rd & Pine, 2nd & Oak, 2nd & Stark, 1st & Stark, 1st & Pine

Dietary restrictions

Idealist is 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 Portland Python Workshop runs under the auspices of the Portland Python user group, which you can find on Twitter as @pdxpython.
• We use the hashtag #pdxpythonworkshop.