[Chennaipy] November Meetup

[Kiran Gangadharan]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org>
wrote:

> # November Meetup
>
> ## Date & Time
>
>   * 29th November
>   * 3:00pm to 5:30pm
>
> ## Venue
>
> Classroom No 2,
> Aerospace Engineering,
> Near Gajendra Circle,
> IIT Madras, Guindy,
> Chennai
>
> Location map: [http://bit.ly/iitm-aero](http://bit.ly/iitm-aero)
>

There's a mistake in the link above. The correct one is
http://bit.ly/iitm-aero


>
> ## Schedule
>
>   * Introduction (15 min)
>   * Talk: Introduction to Selenium (20 min)
>   * Talk: A Gentle Introduction to Generators and Coroutines in Python (15
> min)
>   * Networking over Tea, sponsored by [Zilogic Systems](
> http://www.zilogic.com/) (15 min)
>   * Talk: Getting started with SQLAlchemy (30 min)
>   * Talk: Fun with Pandas (30 min)
>
> ## Details
>
> ### Introduction to Selenium
> Speaker: Mayur Shah
>
> Selenium is a portable software testing framework for web
> applications. Selenium provides a record/playback tool for authoring
> tests without learning a test scripting language. This talk will be an
> introduction to Selenium and its usage in Test Automation.
>
> ### A Gentle Introduction to Generators and Coroutines in Python
> Speaker: Kiran Gangadharan
>
> Though a lot of people know Python, very few people actually
> understand generators and coroutines enough to understand how awesome
> they can be. This talk aims to provide a basic understanding of how
> and when they can be used, and why they are an important utility in
> your Python toolkit.
>
> ### Getting started with SQLAlchemy
> Speaker: Shrayas Rajagopal
>
> SQLAlchemy is a really quirky and awesome way to do ORMs in
> python. And it has quite a learning curve at least at the initial
> stages. Once you get to know the general idea of how things work, it
> becomes pretty awesome. I've just started working with it and just
> want to talk about some things that'll help with getting started with
> SQLAlchemy.
>
> ### Fun with Pandas
> Speaker: Sharmila Gopirajan
>
> Pandas is Python's answer to R's Dataframes.  If that does not make
> sense, not to worry. Just think of Excel's functions in Python, only
> more versatile and able to handle much larger amounts of data. This
> will be a gentle introduction to Pandas, following which, we will try
> to apply the concepts to a Crunchbase's public dataset.
>
> ## RSVP
>
> This time again we are planning to serve tea and snacks during the
> meet. So please do [RSVP on our Meetup
> page](http://www.meetup.com/Chennaipy/events/217328422/) That way, we
> know how many people are coming and can arrange things accordingly.
>
> ## New to Python?
>
> If you are new to Python, the tutorial at
> [http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python/](http://
> learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python/)
> will give you a quick overview of what Python is all about.
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-- 
Cheers,
Kiran Gangadharan
http://kirang.in
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