Intermediate Python Workshop

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 demos of awesome Python libraries and applications.

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://meetup.bostonpython.com/events/72888922/

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

Prerequisites
This event is perfect for you if: and at least one of the following is true:
 * 1) You know Python language basics, including dictionaries, lists, for loops, and writing functions
 * 2) You are comfortable with looking up Python information when you need it (example: if you needed to learn about generating random numbers in Python, you'd be comfortable with Googling for and reading through the relevant documentation)
 * 1) You want to practice writing programs in Python from scratch
 * 2) You want to learn about and practice more advanced Python/CS concepts, like classes and object-oriented programming
 * 3) You want to learn about and practice using useful Python libraries, for example to talk to a database, make graphs, or create graphical games

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: Projects
 * 12:00pm - 12:45pm: Lunch: meet fellow Pythonistas over pizza (sponsored by the Python Software Foundation!)
 * 12:45pm - 1:00pm: Demos
 * 1pm - 2:30pm: Projects
 * 2:30pm - 2:45pm: Demos
 * 2:45pm - 4:15pm: Projects
 * 4:15pm - 4:30pm: Wrap-up

Projects
Please visit our project page for the full list of projects we've curated for this event.
 * | Intro slides
 * | Wrap-up slides

Venue and Logistics
If you have questions about the event, please get in touch with us by sending mail to [mailto:bpw-staff@lists.openhatch.org bpw-staff@lists.openhatch.org].

Location
This event is at Microsoft New England, on One Memorial Drive in Cambridge.

http://microsoftcambridge.com/About/Directions/tabid/89/Default.aspx has extensive directions to the venue.

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 [mailto:bpw-staff@lists.openhatch.org get in touch with us].

Dietary restrictions
We are providing lunch. If you have dietary restrictions, please include them with your RSVP to the event or [mailto:bpw-staff@lists.openhatch.org e-mail] us as you RSVP.

Social media

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