[CentralOH] 2016-09-09 道場 Scribbles 落書/惡文? 2016-09-27 CARPPE pawpaw dabeaz superheroes repl python playground & Pocket Reference CORDIC wildcard imports pep8 well tempered api catb square roots wifi bsod herbs grammar rst heapq pychecker pylint stock market analytics buckminsterfullovit rgb v cmyk challenge release early release often pillow lp update

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

CARPE meeting moved to 2016-09-27
http://www.meetup.com/techlifecolumbus/events/233747098/

Many Pawpaws were given out at the dojo.
wp:Asimina triloba
Big day for pawpaw festival is 2016-09-17.
http://ohiopawpawfest.com/
rusted root will be there

wp: prefix means Wikipedia
To get good answers, consider following the advice in the links below.
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20090627155454/www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html

Thanks to PyOhio for donating "Python Playground"
"Python Pocket Reference" 4th ed to the dojo library.

Bean counters must watch:

    Builtin Superheroes (Screencast) by David Beazley
    PyData Chicago 2016-08-28
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6VSAsKAj98

Are words beans?

What did Dave do to his REPL to cause long strings
to appear in substrings that each fit within a line?

Mine:

    >>> a
    ['word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word ']
    >>>

Dave's

    >>> a
    ['word word word word word word word word word word word word word word '
     'word word word word word word word word word word word word word word '
     'word word word word word word word word word word word word ']
    >>>

Python Playground
Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer
Mahesh Venkitachalam
https://www.nostarch.com/pythonplayground

Python Pocket Reference, 4th ed
by Mark Lutz
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596158095.do

multiplication is just repeated addition
wp:CORDIC

Wildcard imports (from <module> import *) should be avoided,
as they make it unclear which names are present in the namespace,
confusing both readers and many automated tools.

    PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code
    https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#imports

The Well Tempered API
http://pyvideo.org/pyohio-2015/the-well-tempered-api.html
    wp:Hey Nineteen
    wp:Epiphany (feeling)
    wp:recursion
    wp:Gödel, Escher, Bach

The Cathedral and the Bazaar
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

wp:Methods of computing square roots

On 2016-09-02, the Wifi at Panera worked, then stopped working,
then disappeared altogether.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/using_wi-fi_sig.html
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/keystroke_recog.html

Using Wi-Fi Signals to Identify People by Body Shape
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/using_wi-fi_sig.html

schadenfraude
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/05/im_sorry_your_lift_has_had_a_problem_and_had_to_shut_down/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/22/fivestorey_blue_screen_of_death_spotted_in_thailand/

wp:Melissa officinalis

7 tips for learning how to give a technical talk
https://opensource.com/life/16/9/7-tips-learning-how-give-technical-talk

Damian Conway's Talk: "Fun With Dead Languages"
https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=damian+conway+fun+with+dead+languages
wp:Van Wijngaarden grammar
wp:Van Emde Boas tree
wp:Bodhi Tree

wp:Priority queue
wp:Heap (data structure)
wp:Tree traversal
wp:Parse tree
wp:Uriah Heep
wp:Pink Floyd
wp:Robert W. Floyd
wp:Heapsort
wp:Tree sort
wp:Dijkstra's algorithm

https://docs.python.org/3/library/heapq.html
So, a heap is a good structure for implementing schedulers
(this is what I used for my MIDI sequencer :-).

Where [reStucturedText] shines is using Sphinx to auto-generate module
documentation for Python
https://opensource.com/life/16/8/why-i-love-these-markup-languages

wp:Bukovina
wp:Shantel
wp:Fanfare Ciocărlia
wp:Balkan Beat Box
wp:Analogik
wp:Gypsy Beats and Balkan Bangers

"yes and" versus "yes but"

PyChecker
PyLint

150 years ago:
The metric system has been officially sanctioned for use in the
United States since 1866, ...
http://www.us-metric.org/h-r-596-39th-congress/

Identity: Our Last Stand
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/identity-our-last-stand

audiogon.com high end audio gear

Modern Day Alchemy: Using Python to Analyze the Stock Market
http://pyohio.org/schedule/presentation/213/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw6dls3FEUs

Building an Analytics Platform
http://pyohio.org/schedule/presentation/247/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjOjc9457DY

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dodgy
End of the road for those silly walks:
John Cleese can’t perform Monty Python stunt anymore
because he has a dodgy knee
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2647745/John-Cleese-perform-Monty-Python-stunt-anymore-dodgy-knee.html

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
http://learnyouahaskell.com/
http://tryhaskell.org/

Gil Martin

wp:C (programming language)
wp:Buckminsterfullerene
wp:Buckminster Fuller

RGB v CMYK for challenge
    does CMYK make sense for tkinter?

RGB and CMYK have different gamuts.
wp:gamut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CIE1931xy_gamut_comparison.svg

The challenge currently has two entries.
https://github.com/cohpy/challenge-201608-refactor
    https://github.com/cohpy/challenge-201608-refactor/tree/master/Deeppunster
    https://github.com/cohpy/challenge-201608-refactor/tree/master/james-prior
In earlier challenges, some entrants submitted their code at the last moment to
keep others from seeing their code until it was too late for others to use it.
Three folks have adopted a different tact, publishing code early.
Of those, one has not entered their code in the challenge.
At least one of the early entrants deliberately released incomplete code.
wp:Release early, release often

pillow is a fork of and has superceded PIL
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PIL
    The newest free version of PIL is 1.1.7 from 2009-11-15,
    so do not use PIL. Use pillow instead.
Friends don't let friends use PIL.

The electronic version of Learning Python 5th ed by Mark Lutz
was updated 2016-09-06.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028154.do