From chris at chrisarndt.de  Tue Feb  4 07:57:59 2014
From: chris at chrisarndt.de (Christopher Arndt)
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:57:59 +0100
Subject: [group-organizers] Python pub quiz
Message-ID: <52F08F77.6090201@chrisarndt.de>

Hi all,

at our next user group meeting (http://pycologne.de) I'd like to
organize a Python-themed pub quiz.

Has anybody ever done this? I'm currently collecting ideas for quiz
questions and tasks for the teams. If you have any good suggestions, I
would be very grateful to hear them!

I'm planning to have three rounds of about 8-10 questions each, for example:

* Normal text questions (short answer or multiple choice)
  * History of python
  * Knowledge about language features (e.g. "How many immutable types
are there in the language core? Name them all.")
  * Different Python implementations

* Multimedia supported questions (images, videos, audio):
  * recognize people, software logos
  * attribute quotes
  * ...?

* Code and algorithms:

  * Find the bug in the code
  * Name the standard library module that contains the shown code fragment
  * Predict the output of the shown code (without running it)
  * Find Python 2/3 incompatibilities


If you have any pointers where I can find collections of trivia
information about Python, historical info, sources of audio and video
material, etc. please let me know!


Cheers, Chris

From mal at egenix.com  Thu Feb  6 10:06:10 2014
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:06:10 +0100
Subject: [group-organizers] Python pub quiz
In-Reply-To: <52F08F77.6090201@chrisarndt.de>
References: <52F08F77.6090201@chrisarndt.de>
Message-ID: <52F35082.1040208@egenix.com>

On 04.02.2014 07:57, Christopher Arndt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> at our next user group meeting (http://pycologne.de) I'd like to
> organize a Python-themed pub quiz.
> 
> Has anybody ever done this? I'm currently collecting ideas for quiz
> questions and tasks for the teams. If you have any good suggestions, I
> would be very grateful to hear them!
> 
> I'm planning to have three rounds of about 8-10 questions each, for example:
> 
> * Normal text questions (short answer or multiple choice)
>   * History of python
>   * Knowledge about language features (e.g. "How many immutable types
> are there in the language core? Name them all.")
>   * Different Python implementations
> 
> * Multimedia supported questions (images, videos, audio):
>   * recognize people, software logos
>   * attribute quotes
>   * ...?
> 
> * Code and algorithms:
> 
>   * Find the bug in the code
>   * Name the standard library module that contains the shown code fragment
>   * Predict the output of the shown code (without running it)
>   * Find Python 2/3 incompatibilities
> 
> 
> If you have any pointers where I can find collections of trivia
> information about Python, historical info, sources of audio and video
> material, etc. please let me know!

Philipp Hagemeister gave a nice lightning talk about some Python 2
quirks in our Python Meeting D?sseldorf (PyDDF) user group which
you may be able to use:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNP4KHYvJqI

(the talk is in German)

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From chris at chrisarndt.de  Thu Feb  6 10:19:40 2014
From: chris at chrisarndt.de (Christopher Arndt)
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:19:40 +0100
Subject: [group-organizers] Python pub quiz
In-Reply-To: <52F35082.1040208@egenix.com>
References: <52F08F77.6090201@chrisarndt.de> <52F35082.1040208@egenix.com>
Message-ID: <52F353AC.2030202@chrisarndt.de>

On 06.02.2014 10:06, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Philipp Hagemeister gave a nice lightning talk about some Python 2
> quirks

Thanks, Marc-Andr?, I will watch this at the next opportunity.

Chir