1. BayPIGgies (San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley Python Interest Group) monthly meeting... if you're in the Northern California area tonite, you can come to Mountain View, CA to hear Guido give his talk on CP4E as well as Python Futures and Q&A: When: (today) Wednesday, March 15, 2000, 8pm Where: Mountain View, CA Who: special guest speaker, Guido van Rossum, creator of Python! What: Guido will discuss the following topics: 1. Computer Programming For Everybody 2. Python Futures (1.6, etc.) 3. Python Q&A Info: for more, see the BayPIGgies website: http://www.baypiggies.org/ public transit directions and map can be found at: http://linuxmafia.com/bale/ 2. another UC Santa Cruz Extension Python course in Silicon Valley, Spring quarter 2000: speaking of teaching/learning Python... for those of you interested Python training and are able to make it to Northern California, due to the popularity of its first Python course, UC Santa Cruz has decided to offer this course again in Silicon Valley, so if you know anyone who wishes to get up-to-speed quickly on Python or those self-taught who perhaps would like to fill-in any missing gaps, this would be a good opportunity. the maximum enrollment is set at 50, and their rate ($400) is pretty reasonable, being a public institution and all. (shameless plug: i am also available to contract for corporate training services too if there too many people from your company or if you're too far away!) the website below is not 100% accurate but close enough! When: Tuesdays, April 4 - May 30, 2000, 6:30pm-9:30pm Where: Sunnyvale, CA Who: Wesley Chun What: intro to Python, data types, statements, errors and exception handling, functions and modules, OOP and classes, execution environment, regular expressions, network/Internet progamming, inter- facing to your operating system, creating GUIs with Tkinter, intro to JPython, and Extending Python Info: for more info, see the UCSC Extension website for the next Python course: http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/knowledge_is_timeless/qd/softlist.taf?function=detail&X_Number=X444.3