[Chicago] New to python : Suggestions

[Daniel Galtieri]

This list is mostly geared towards the scientific python community, but
there are a couple sections with links for general introduction to Python:

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-IPython-Notebooks

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Ashwin,
> It sounds like to your original email your trying to copy reddit?
> There is a reason for reddit failure and it happens nearly to any social
> news site. Eventually it becomes so big that the users hate it.
>
> Multiple boards etc... at first you have to have nearly no rules and once
> you get big you will have many rules.
>
> I suggest you implement some way to reward two groups of people.
> Content creators (people who create posts on social news)
> Moderators (people who manage the boards)
>
> Those groups of people basically use reddit for either promotion of their
> product or to have a sense of power over the content creators.
>
> Reddits biggest success was the IAMA board. It allowed celebrities to have
> conversations with others.
>
> The big problem is that reddit may or may not make money at this point.
> They are shuffling upper management a bunch of times. This makes me believe
> that even the best people can't manage reddit anymore and it is ripe for
> disruption.
>
> You don't even have to follow the rules in this email. Possibly even
> making something different will make you successful.
>
> Regardless it is a good learning experience to try to make something you
> actually care about. That is the most important part about programming.
>
> Sincerely,
> Joshua Herman
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Tanya Schlusser <tanya at tickel.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Welcome to Python Aswin -- here's to many years of fun and productivity!
>>
>>
>> I should plug the Django special interest group -- Django is like
>> Python's version of Ruby on Rails -- it's a web framework. The next meeting
>> is tomorrow (Sunday):
>>
>> http://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/events/224681564/
>>
>> Also, you may be looking for a platform to host your creation for free.
>> The two I know of are Heroku, which has great tutorials and free Postgres
>> database (up to 10,000 rows of data), and PythonAnywhere which allows MySQL
>> for free.
>>
>>
>>    - Heroku: https://www.pythonanywhere.com/
>>    - PythonAnywhere: https://www.pythonanywhere.com/
>>
>>
>> Happy coding!
>>
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