Philadelphia Python Workshop

We organize and teach Python workshops in Philadelphia. Questions? Email us at [mailto:phlpw-staff@lists.openhatch.org phlpw-staff@lists.openhatch.org].

An updated curriculum can be found here New curriculum

Workshop Resources

 * Friday Setup
 * Coding Bat exercises
 * Codeacademy exercises
 * Saturday Lecture
 * Saturday Projects
 * Mad Lib Samples from Sarah's Lightening Talk
 * Etherpad from the April 5/6 workshop

Pythonista Communities

 * Philadelphia Python User Group -- monthly technical talks, projects nights, workshops
 * Pystar -- Python events for diverse audiences

Previous Python Workshops & Project Nights

 * Intro to Python Part 2 on July 27, 2013
 * Philadelphia Python Workshop 8 (Girl Develop It Philly event) on June 29, 2013 at First Round Capital
 * Philadelphia Python Workshop 7 (Girl Develop It Philly event) on June 15, 2013 at First Round Capital
 * Philadelphia Python Workshop 6 on April 20, 2013 at the Women in Tech Summit
 * Philadelphia Python Workshop 5 on April 5 & 6, 2013 at Monetate
 * Philadelphia Python Workshop 4 on June 22 & 23, 2012 at Drexel University
 * Philadelphia Python Workshop 3 on February 3 & 4, 2012 at DevNuts
 * Philadelphia Python Workshop 2 (PyStar Philly event) on September 24, 2011 at The Hacktory
 * Philadelphia Python Workshop 1 (PyStar Philly event) on June 18, 2011 at Azavea

Additional Learning Resources
Python tutorials Coding Bat -- http://codingbat.com/home/bostonpythonworkshop@gmail.com/

Learning Python the Hard Way: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

CoderSumo, Learn by solving problems: http://codersumo.com/

The Programming Historian: http://programminghistorian.org/

The Python Tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/

Think Python: http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/. This tutorial does a particularly good job of introducing programming concepts and terminology.

An introduction to Python through writing games: http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/

MIT Python course: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-189-a-gentle-introduction-to-programming-using-python-january-iap-2011/

Codeacademy-Python: http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python

Other useful tutorials (not just about Python)

command line: http://bit.ly/PM0QZi

Try git: http://try.github.com/levels/1/challenges/1

Virtualenv and pip basics: http://jontourage.com/2011/02/09/virtualenv-pip-basics/

Awesome package management helper: virtualenvwrapper: http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/virtualenvwrapper/

Using APIs with Python Tutorial (Sunlight Foundation data!) http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/sunlight

Resources from PhillyPUG Project Nights:

https://pystarphilly.etherpad.mozilla.org/7

Code of Conduct
Our goal is to create a welcoming environment for all members and visitors of the Python community in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Python Workshop staff and the organizers of PhillyPUG and Pystar Philly fully support the Code of Conduct adopted by the Python Software Foundation in 2012. The CoC is available on GitHub:


 * Code of Conduct


 * Staff Procedure for Incident Handling


 * Attendee Procedure for Incident Handling