I recently became aware of this resource, which may be of interest to beginners: http://www.pythonrag.org/ -- -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.secoora.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
I first heard about this book from Joel Burton over two years ago. It was finally released today. Amazon has it for a dollar less than the O'Reilly user group discount price, and with free shipping: http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Programming-Learners-Language/dp/0596802374 Head First Programming is a book for people who aren't just new to Python, but new to programming. And it's written in Python 3. On the one hand, it seems to assume that you already have Python 3 installed on your machine and that you know how to fire up IDLE. On the other hand, it says in the intro that the book is *not* for you if 1) you already know how to program or 2) are looking for a quick Python introduction or reference book. If you are trying to teach someone completely new to programming, this book might help. It seems to really assume the reader knows nothing about programming. However, be aware that it does carry some warts common to teaching Python, like the use of the word "variable." It also uses the "you already know how to read Python" approach to explaining Python code, too, if you like that approach. -- -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.secoora.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530(Continue reading)
Hi All,
Just wanted to let you know that we'll be hosting a local Django Development sprint in the Triangle area of North Carolina next weekend (Dec 12 and 13). A development sprint is an excuse to get together, write some code, and have a good time doing it. The purpose of this sprint will be to help finish features and push out bug fixes in preparation for the Django 1.2 release. If you're interested in coming to work on other open source Django-based projects, that's welcome too.
We'll be meeting in Carrboro Creative Coworking (205 Lloyd St, Carrboro, NC 27510) and we'll be there to open the doors at 9am both days.
For more information, please check out the corresponding wiki page and RSVP via Eventbrite if you're interested:
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Sprint200912TriangleNC
http://django-triangle-dec-09.eventbrite.com/
We have a couple sponsors so far, but there's still room for more, so check out the sponsors section of the wiki and add yourself (or your company) if you'd like to bring something.
Hope to see you there!
Cheers,
Tobias
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Tobias McNulty
Caktus Consulting Group, LLC
P.O. Box 1454
Carrboro, NC 27510
(919) 951-0052
http://www.caktusgroup.com
<div><p>Hi All,<br><br>Just wanted to let you know that we'll be hosting a local Django Development sprint in the Triangle area of North Carolina next weekend (Dec 12 and 13). A development sprint is an excuse to get together, write some code, and have a good time doing it. The purpose of this sprint will be to help finish features and push out bug fixes in preparation for the Django 1.2 release. If you're interested in coming to work on other open source Django-based projects, that's welcome too.<br><br>We'll be meeting in Carrboro Creative Coworking (205 Lloyd St, Carrboro, NC 27510) and we'll be there to open the doors at 9am both days.<br><br>For more information, please check out the corresponding wiki page and RSVP via Eventbrite if you're interested:<br><br><a href="http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Sprint200912TriangleNC">http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Sprint200912TriangleNC</a><br><br><a href="http://django-triangle-dec-09.eventbrite.com/">http://django-triangle-dec-09.eventbrite.com/</a><br><br>We have a couple sponsors so far, but there's still room for more, so check out the sponsors section of the wiki and add yourself (or your company) if you'd like to bring something.<br><br>Hope to see you there!<br><br>Cheers,<br>Tobias<br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Tobias McNulty<br>Caktus Consulting Group, LLC<br>P.O. Box 1454<br>Carrboro, NC 27510<br>(919) 951-0052<br><a href="http://www.caktusgroup.com">http://www.caktusgroup.com</a><br></p></div>
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Chris Calloway <cbc-gpQNmkgQrW4@public.gmane.org> wrote:
I still want to talk to Robert about this coming Dec 17th, because we might
be able to have some, uh, holiday "punch" at the Franklin Center. We have
in the past at Nicholas School, too.
Yeah, there's no punch allowed in the North Pavilion, so that'd be great if it was the case else where. I don't need to have the lock on Duke locations if Ben or Robert would like to host, but I'd like to keep Duke in the rotation.
<div> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Mike Revoir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrevoir@..." target="_blank">mrevoir@...</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote"> <br><div class="gmail_quote"> <div>On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Chris Calloway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbc@..." target="_blank">cbc@...</a>></span> wrote:<br><div></div> </div> <div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote"></blockquote> </div> </div> </blockquote> <div> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote"> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote">I still want to talk to Robert about this coming Dec 17th, because we might<br> be able to have some, uh, holiday "punch" at the Franklin Center. We have<br> in the past at Nicholas School, too.<br> </blockquote> <div><br></div> </div> <div>Yeah, there's no punch allowed in the North Pavilion, so that'd be great if it was the case else where. I don't need to have the lock on Duke locations if Ben or Robert would like to host, but I'd like to keep Duke in the rotation.</div> </div> </blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Has a location been set for a special Christmas TriZPUG meeting? We could meet at The Federal where I believe they have several varieties of punch on tap if that's desired. I haven't been but I know that's the spot for the after-meeting meeting in Durham :)</div> <div><br></div> <div>I'd love to hear about the Djanjo sprint that will have happened the week prior.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Have a nice day,</div> <div><br></div> <div>Mike</div> </div> </div>
I'd been talking to CC about hosting the Holiday meeting at the Nicholas School at Duke again- tho' just yesterday, my group scheduled a last minute meeting at Rutgers, so there's a good chance I'll be out of town now. If there's another location, it might be better to go with that. Bendy On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Mike Revoir <mrevoir@...> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Mike Revoir <mrevoir@...> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Chris Calloway <cbc@...> wrote: > > >>> >>> I still want to talk to Robert about this coming Dec 17th, because we >>> might >>> be able to have some, uh, holiday "punch" at the Franklin Center. We have >>> in the past at Nicholas School, too. >> >> Yeah, there's no punch allowed in the North Pavilion, so that'd be great >> if it was the case else where. I don't need to have the lock on Duke >> locations if Ben or Robert would like to host, but I'd like to keep Duke in >> the rotation. > > Has a location been set for a special Christmas TriZPUG meeting? We could > meet at The Federal where I believe they have several varieties of punch on > tap if that's desired. I haven't been but I know that's the spot for the > after-meeting meeting in Durham :) > I'd love to hear about the Djanjo sprint that will have happened the week > prior. > Have a nice day, > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG@... > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group >
On 12/2/2009 12:08 PM, Mike Revoir wrote: > Has a location been set for a special Christmas TriZPUG meeting? We could > meet at The Federal where I believe they have several varieties of punch on > tap if that's desired. I haven't been but I know that's the spot for the > after-meeting meeting in Durham :) Yeah, I put a placeholder announcement up here a couple of weeks ago: http://trizpug.org/ Bendy said he could host at Nicholas school in a conference room. Still waiting to hear the room number from Bendy. > I'd love to hear about the Djanjo sprint that will have happened the week > prior. I'd think that would be a good possibility. :) -- -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.secoora.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
On 12/2/2009 12:32 PM, Ben Donnelly wrote: > I'd been talking to CC about hosting the Holiday meeting at the > Nicholas School at Duke again- tho' just yesterday, my group scheduled > a last minute meeting at Rutgers, so there's a good chance I'll be out > of town now. If there's another location, it might be better to go > with that. Ouch. OK. I'm checking on some alternate locations now. Thanks for the heads up. -- -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.secoora.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Just a friendly reminder about the Django sprint this weekend in the Triangle. If you haven't already, don't forget to RSVP so we can plan food, drinks, etc. accordingly: http://django-triangle-dec-09.eventbrite.com/ Hope to see you there! Cheers, Tobias On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Tobias McNulty <tobias@...> wrote: > Hi All, > > Just wanted to let you know that we'll be hosting a local Django Development > sprint in the Triangle area of North Carolina next weekend (Dec 12 and 13). > A development sprint is an excuse to get together, write some code, and have > a good time doing it. The purpose of this sprint will be to help finish > features and push out bug fixes in preparation for the Django 1.2 release. > If you're interested in coming to work on other open source Django-based > projects, that's welcome too. > > We'll be meeting in Carrboro Creative Coworking (205 Lloyd St, Carrboro, NC > 27510) and we'll be there to open the doors at 9am both days. > > For more information, please check out the corresponding wiki page and RSVP > via Eventbrite if you're interested: > > http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Sprint200912TriangleNC > > http://django-triangle-dec-09.eventbrite.com/ > > We have a couple sponsors so far, but there's still room for more, so check > out the sponsors section of the wiki and add yourself (or your company) if > you'd like to bring something. > > Hope to see you there! > > Cheers, > Tobias -- -- Tobias McNulty Caktus Consulting Group, LLC P.O. Box 1454 Carrboro, NC 27510 (919) 951-0052 http://www.caktusgroup.com
It turns out that Bendy can host our meeting at Duke after all. So here's the announcement: http://trizpug.org/Members/bendy/dec-09-mtg/ We will have a lot of food and beverage, plus at least six *substantial* door prizes. Unless someone steps forward with a feature presentation, this holiday party/meeting will be all about your lightning talks. Please think of something you learned about Python recently that you can show and tell about in five minutes or less. Some of the door prizes are going to be linked to best lightning talks. Or maybe you might need to give a lightning talk to get in on the door prize action. Either way, I'm sure there is *something* you learned in the month or so that is worth sharing. You might plan to arrive a little early to deal with the parking situation and the confusing hallways of the meeting location. Map: http://map.duke.edu/?x=355.06&y=-360.22&z=5&w=835&h=600&new.x=474&new.y=271 If you arrive late and can't get in the door, call 358-2662 or 613-8021x7. -- -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.secoora.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Reminder... Holiday party is tomorrow... details below... This holiday party is about sharing. Bring your lightning talk to share. There will be plenty of comestibles for sharing. Among the giveaways for people who share are the following brand new books: Natural Language Processing With Python Dive Into Python 3 (Completely revised) Beginning Python Visualization Programming Collective Intelligence (all example code in Python) Foundations of Agile Python Development Expert Python Programming On 12/11/2009 4:11 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > It turns out that Bendy can host our meeting at Duke after all. > > So here's the announcement: > > http://trizpug.org/Members/bendy/dec-09-mtg/ > > We will have a lot of food and beverage, plus at least six *substantial* > door prizes. > > Unless someone steps forward with a feature presentation, this holiday > party/meeting will be all about your lightning talks. Please think of > something you learned about Python recently that you can show and tell > about in five minutes or less. Some of the door prizes are going to be > linked to best lightning talks. Or maybe you might need to give a > lightning talk to get in on the door prize action. Either way, I'm sure > there is *something* you learned in the month or so that is worth sharing. > > You might plan to arrive a little early to deal with the parking > situation and the confusing hallways of the meeting location. > > Map: > http://map.duke.edu/?x=355.06&y=-360.22&z=5&w=835&h=600&new.x=474&new.y=271 > > If you arrive late and can't get in the door, call 358-2662 or 613-8021x7. >
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