[Baypiggies] December BayPIGgies meeting: Thursday, December 15, 2011: What Is Pythonic?

[Venkatraman S]

I am visiting Bay Area for a few weeks and would love to attend this; but i
need a drive from Belmont - anyone driving through?
( i dont have a car :( )

-V
http://blizzardzblogs.blogspot.com/


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:42 PM, jim <jim at systemateka.com> wrote:

>
> December BayPIGgies meeting: Thursday, December 15, 2011: What Is
> Pythonic?
>
> Speaker Marilyn Davis
>
> Abstract:
>
> Marilyn will give a clear, succinct, and hopefully, thought-provoking,
> definition for the word "pythonic".  She'll explain a few concepts that
> help you to produce pythonic code. And, using her definition, she will
> give code examples and pythonic ratings, from 0 to 10, for various
> snippets of code.
>
> We'll leave time for others to share their snippets of code. So bring
> any code or thoughts that you consider to be particular pythonic, or
> un-pythonic, or that just leave you curious.  We'll try to work
> together to pythonisize any code example, and put a rating on it.
>
>
> Bio:
>
> Marilyn Davis earned a Ph.D. in Radio Astronomy from UCSD, and Master's
> degrees in Applied Physics from UCSD, and in Mathematics from Denver
> University. Computer programming and teaching captured her imagination
> and she has made significant contributions in scientific, environmental,
> statistical, operations research, test-development, and electronic
> democracy applications. After teaching C Programming at UCSC-Extension
> for many years, she met Python and immediately recognized it as a big
> boon to software engineering.  Marilyn currently conducts Python
> training classes in various companies through PythonTrainer.Com, and at
> UCSC-Extension in Santa Clara.
>
> http://pythontrainer.com
>
>
>
> .........................................
>
>
> LOCATION
> Symantec Corporation
> Symantec Vcafe
> 350 Ellis Street
> Mountain View, CA 94043
>
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>
> BayPIGgies meeting information is available at
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>
>
> ------------------------ Agenda ------------------------
>
>
> ..... 7:30 PM ...........................
> General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements,
> any first-minute announcements.
>
>
> ..... 7:35 PM to 8:25 PM (or so) ................
> The talk: What Is Pythonic?
>
>
> ..... 8:25 PM to 8:55 PM (or so) ................
> Questions and Answers
>
>
> ..... 8:55 PM to 9:30 PM (or so) ................
> Mapping and Random Access
>
> Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of issues,
> hiring, events, and other topics.
>
> Random Access follows people immediately to allow follow
> up on the announcements and other interests.
>
>
>
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