[Chicago] My Tutorial!

[Matt Dennewitz]

This is one of the tutorials Im really looking forward to. It seems to  
be an excellent bridge from intermediate to "getting your feet wet in  
the more serious aspects of Python."



On Jan 11, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Feihong Hsu wrote:

> Although the PyCon 2008 talk schedule has not yet been finalized, the
> tutorial schedule has already been officially announced:
>
> http://pycon.blogspot.com/2008/01/pycon-tutorial-sessions-announced.html
>
> Kumar McMillan and I worked on a tutorial together, and it is titled
> "Secrets of the Framework Creators":
>
> http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/FrameworksHsu/
>
> Our target audience for the tutorial is intermediate Python
> programmers, see the "Requirements" section for more details.
>
> One thing that distinguishes our tutorial is that we look at a number
> of well-known python modules and discuss how they use advanced Python
> features to implement their APIs. We then go through a couple of
> targeted examples that show how to use a particular Python feature in
> a realistic usage scenario. Our goal is to help you understand how to
> write libraries/frameworks that have simpler, cleaner APIs, thus
> reducing the amount of code you write when you use your library.
> Quite a bit of the material in the tutorial is tied to what I learned
> as I was making wxPita, the programming of which really stretched the
> limits of my Python knowledge.
>
> I wouldn't go as far as calling myself an "educator", but I do have
> some background in teaching computer science at the college level and
> also English at the junior high level. So you can expect a reasonably
> polished presentation, not the fumbling-through-illegible-notes style
> you saw at the wxPita talk (I blame that one on lack of preparation,
> which won't be an issue here).
>
> I hope you'll consider signing up for our tutorial! And even if you
> don't, I hope to see you all at PyCon in March!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Feihong
>
>
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