Project night

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Python Project Night

Come work on Python projects, get programming help, help others, and hang out. Bring your own project or work on one of the suggested projects below. Staff from the Boston Python Workshop will be here to help beginning Python programmers with language basics and practice.

Audience: everyone! We'll have something for all Python experience levels.

Signup: you must register for this event on the Boston Python Meetup.

Location: Microsoft New England, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142

Food: Pizza will be provided.

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Projects

Need some project ideas? How about:

Learning Python

  • The official Python tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/. This tutorial is very comprehensive, but it sometimes throws in unnecessarily advanced concepts. This is a solid tutorial for people with prior programming experience, and is still a good tutorial for new programmers if you are willing to skip over the advanced concepts and come back to them later.
  • How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python: http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/. This tutorial does a particularly good job of introducing programming concepts and terminology.
  • Learn Python the Hard Way: http://learnpythonthehardway.org. Despite the name, some people find this to be a gentler introduction than the official Python tutorial.
  • An introduction to Python through writing games: http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/.
  • A project/lecture on object oriented programming run by Anna Callahan. Download files here: Object Orientation for beginners

Practicing Python

  • Practice Python online with bite-sized exercises: http://codingbat.com/python.
  • Staff from the Boston Python Workshop will be here to help work through practice projects from the Workshop, including:
    • using the Twitter API to write parts of a Twitter client
    • wordplay and the power of regular expressions
    • programming graphical effects for a ColorWall
    • music remixing with the Echo Nest Remix API
  • Practice writing code to solve a problem from scratch with the Scrabble challenge.

Projects and competitions

Have more project suggestions? Add them to this wiki page!