[Meeting] Problem-solving, perspectives, programming, and presentation, 19Oct

[dn]

With all that "p"-alliteration, it must be a Pppresentation with the 
virtual-Auckland branch of NZPUG!

Wed 19 Oct,
1800 for 1830 ~ 2030 NZDT
0500, 0530, and 0730 UTC+13 resp
by web-conference

Nathan Smith had an 'itch' caused by a problem related to the game of 
Scrabble. Solving a problem with Python, from start-to-finish. A journey 
of challenges, a lesson of not giving in and hopefully a good story all 
round. Featuring, steps forwards, brick-walls, data-structures related 
to words, dictionaries (of both definitions) and Directed Acyclic Word 
Graphs (DAWG - application of DAG graph/network structures). Plus, a 
blind person's perspective on coding through the project, presenting 
overview information on the way a blind person may access code and what 
similarities or differences may crop up.


Creative Coding With Python: Learn how to code simple visuals in Python 
for games, innovative stats, simulations and generative art using a 
flavour of the processing library. This can be incredibly useful for 
teaching programming, visualising concepts and sharpening thinking 
skills. This list's own Abdur-Rahman Janhangeer organises the Python 
Mauritius User Group and FlaskCon* (amongst many other contributions to 
the Python Community including graphic presentation libraries)
* Flask is a very popular web framework


More info about the group, and to RSVP (and thus receive the meeting 
URL) see Meetup group at: 
https://www.meetup.com/nzpug-auckland/events/njdjssydcnbzb/


Regards =dn (Pete and DJ)