From marilyn at deliberate.com  Fri Jun  6 17:50:58 2008
From: marilyn at deliberate.com (Marilyn Davis)
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 08:50:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [PyOP] This weekend -- A Beginners' Class
Message-ID: <40799.66.218.47.125.1212767458.squirrel@mail.tigertech.net>

This weekend is a 2-day hands-on lab class to learn how to program.  This
class is for people, all ages, who have never programmed before.

We'll be practicing a few powerful engineering concepts and using Python.

It'll be fun.

http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/ucsc/public/category/courseDetails.do?method=load&courseId=3576274&selectedCategoryId=1000075&selectedProgramAreaId=1000171&selectedProgramStreamId=1528553

Thanks from the instructor,

Marilyn Davis


From jim at well.com  Tue Jun 10 06:15:10 2008
From: jim at well.com (jim)
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:15:10 -0700
Subject: [PyOP] bayPIGgies meeting Thursday June 12--Alex Martelli on
	callbacks, 7:30 PM
Message-ID: <1213071310.6307.19.camel@ubuntu>




bayPIGgies meeting Thursday 6/12:  Don't call us, we'll call you: 
callback patterns and idioms in Python

Callbacks (the general "Don't call us, we'll call you" pattern) 
are a crucial technique for concurrency, event-drivenprogramming 
(in a disparate variety of fields, from GUIs to parsing),
and advanced customization of library and system behavior. 

This talk covers callback patterns and idioms, their use in the 
Standard Python library, and best practices in designing and 
using callback-based interfaces.

This talk will be a variant on Alex' Pycon 2008 talk. see
http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/talks/?search=Callbacks ...:



Location: Google Campus 
Building 42, the Parimaribo room (second floor) 
check in at the lobby in bldg 43 

bayPIGgies meeting information: 
http://baypiggies.net/new/plone

* Please sign up in advance to have your google access 
badge ready: 
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BayPiggiesGoogleMeetings
(no later than close of business on Wednesday.) 


Agenda

..... 7:30 PM ...........................
General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, 
any first-minute announcements. 


..... 7:35 PM to 8:45 PM ................

The Talk 

..... 8:45 PM to 9:00 PM or After The Talk ................
Mapping and Random Access

Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics 
the announcers are interested in. 

Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up 
individually on the announcements and other topics of 
interest.


..... Thursday, July 10 ................
7:30 PM BayPIGgies Niall O'Higgins 
   p2p quantitive analysis and asynchronous BitTorrent 
   implementation in Python and C 

..... Thursday, August 14 ................
7:30 PM BayPIGgies Steven Knight on SCons 



From marilyn at deliberate.com  Sun Jun 15 18:49:54 2008
From: marilyn at deliberate.com (Marilyn Davis)
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:49:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [PyOP] Sunnyvale Python Training for Programmers
Message-ID: <36302.66.218.47.125.1213548594.squirrel@mail.tigertech.net>

Hi,

A Python class starts tomorrow.  It's an intense, but low-pressure,
learning experience, designed for programmers of other languages:

http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/ucsc/public/category/courseDetails.do;jsessionid=D264C38973BB0A8D201B76D500F33B5D?method=load&courseId=1531625&selectedCategoryId=1000075&selectedProgramAreaId=3785130&selectedProgramStreamId=1535344

It'll be Monday through Thursday this week.  Four days in the lab,
practicing the core of Python, especially Pythonic thinking.

I hope to see you there.

Marilyn Davis, Ph.D.