[omaha] Idea for Multi - meeting/person/topic presentations

[Steve Young]

I love the idea.  Sounds like a great way to learn Python and much more.  I
must say a ToDo app isn't very exciting - but I can't think of anything
better at the moment...

Next meeting is this Monday.

Steve


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T
<jeffh at dundeemt.com>wrote:

> There have been requests for a beginning Python topic for each meeting in
> addition to the current type of topics.  From prior presentations on
> beginning topics, they are usually quite dry, running down a laundry list
> of topics from dictionaries, to PEP8 to iterators, etc.  The presentations
> are ok but I was thinking about a way to have a multi-focus project that
> would cover the spectrum.  Something completely different...
>
> As a thought experiment, pick a slightly more than trivial project -- say
> Gina Trapani's Todo.txt  http://todotxt.com/  -- a nifty idea for a
> simplistic but workable todo list app.  But built on a hodge podge of bash,
> awk, sed with plugin's using programming langauges all over the universe.
> Say we agreed to re-implement the app in Python.  It's GPL we can do that.
>  It is flat file based with lots of string processing and user interaction
> -- just the kind of stuff that make for a decent first program.  We can
> show off file handling, iterators, etc.    Pretty good topics for beginning
> pythonistas.
>
> Now we have also had requests for presentations on testing.   This would
> make a good vehicle for demonstrating unit tests, smoke tests, integration
> tests and acceptance testing.
>
> Every meeting we would have someone volunteer to give a talk on topic X and
> use this on-going project as the guinea pig for demonstrating.
>
>
>   - We would host the code up on a public repository, say bitbucket and
>   then people could demo using mercurial and git.
>   - It would be a candidate for using Tox http://pypi.python.org/pypi/toxto
>   assist in making it 2/3 compatible
>   - Documenting your project with sphinx and/or read the docs
>   http://readthedocs.org/
>      - checking your documentation examples with doctests
>   - Packaging your app for Linux, Mac, Windows and putting it up on pypi
>   - Using nosetest   w/wo coverage.py
>   - The list goes on, webify it, make a gui, etc, etc.
>
> Now not every talk would be using this "group project" as the example -- a
> lot of times it just wouldn't make sense, but when it did make sense, we
> would have a common code base that all were familiar with or could get
> familiar with quickly.
>
> I look forward to your responses -- I hope you get my angle on this, but I
> think we could make this or something like this a real win for the group.
>
> --
> Best,
>
> Jeff Hinrichs
> 402.218.1473
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