Re: EuroPython 2015: Beginner’s Day

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:06 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at europython.eu> wrote:
> * A high-level introduction to Python and programming in general.
>    Where did Python come from, what is programming all about, and what
>    do I need to know to understand all these in-jokes about cheese
>    shops?
>
>  * A session on the Python “ecosystem”  An introduction to the Python
>    ecosystem: some topics and bits of jargon that are bound to come up
>    this week: open source, free software, github, packages, pip, pypi,
>    scientific computing, scipy, numpy, pandas, ipython notebook, web
>    frameworks, django, flask, asyncio, the BDFL, the Zen of Python,
>    etc etc.  What are the tools, areas of interest, in-jokes, people
>    of note.

Heh, I wish this had been available when I started digging into
Python. Took me ages to figure out some of the in-jokes....

ChrisA