From davidkunio at gmail.com Fri Dec 8 00:38:30 2017 From: davidkunio at gmail.com (David Matsumura) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 05:38:30 +0000 Subject: [Chicago] FinSIG - Wrap up from today's meeting Message-ID: Hi ChiPy, Had a great meeting today! Pretty big crowd too. Here is the code from the meeting. Please let me know if you have any questions. https://github.com/Chipy-Finance/CryptoTechnicals Here is some more information on the FinSIG Hedge fund. Please consider signing up if you are interested. Mission Statement: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gPPfI-sQRhoy49U7evTtZ3u2aclalldE6VLWTA1FGfo/edit?usp=sharing Application: *https://goo.gl/forms/jysqbc37oifQQSSE3* Best Regards, David -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Also thank you to our Platinum sponsors: Braintree, Imaginary Landscape, Procured Health, Signature Consultants, and Telnyx. Also, thank you to our Silver sponsor: Markit. Please be aware of our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/ -- Joe J. Jasinski www.joejasinski.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anjali.deolapure at gmail.com Wed Dec 13 08:14:01 2017 From: anjali.deolapure at gmail.com (Anjali Deolapure) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 07:14:01 -0600 Subject: [Chicago] ChiPy Survey - Win a Prize! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Happy Holidays ChiPynistas! It's that time of year for chestnuts on an open fire, bells that jingle, and gift cards! All you have to do is take a quick survey for ChiPy, and you could win one of *two Amazon $50 gift cards*. That's right, we're making it rain [two whole drops] in prizes. We really enjoyed this year with all of y'all and would love to know what you think. 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URL: From m-rich at northwestern.edu Wed Dec 13 12:04:55 2017 From: m-rich at northwestern.edu (Matthew T Rich) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 17:04:55 +0000 Subject: [Chicago] Weekend Instructors Needed: Computer Science & Technology In-Reply-To: References: <8902EA56-7C01-4229-8168-9D186D07F60F@northwestern.edu> <274479F7-D52F-413C-8E43-FB8021FC975A@northwestern.edu> <1512600501479.30942@northwestern.edu> <1513104853299.89500@northwestern.edu> Message-ID: <1511cd5d73244afa83b887545ad02345@evcspmbx01.ads.northwestern.edu> Northwestern University?s Center for Talent Development is currently hiring computer science and technology instructors for the Weekend Enrichment Program?s (WEP) eight-week Winter 2018 session. Students in WEP courses range in age from pre-kindergarten to grade 8, and are performing about 1 ? 2 years above grade level. Instructors are responsible for curriculum design and implementation with the support of CTD Staff. Successful execution of these courses requires deep content knowledge in these subject areas, the ability to challenge each student, the development of an inclusive and engaging classroom community, and integration of real-world knowledge with hands-on activities and labs. A sample of our winter courses in computer science & technology are at the bottom of this message. View our winter session brochure for a complete list of courses and course descriptions: http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/sites/default/files/Winter2018_wep.pdf Pay: $840 stipend per course Locations: Evanston (NU campus), Naperville (North Central College), Palatine (500 N. Benton), and Chicago (751 N. State) Times: Courses are held in the mornings (9:00-11:30am) and afternoons (12:00-2:30pm). Instructors teach during one or both of these time frames depending on location and course assignment, and must be on site 30 minutes prior to the start of the course. Dates: This position requires attendance on eight Saturdays from 1/20/18 ? 3/10/18. Selected additional Sunday positions may be available in Evanston. Minimum Experience and Skills: Bachelor?s degree required. Instructors are experts in the subject matter, as well as in classroom communication and management. Instructors must use a variety of best instructional practices, assess student need and progress, and appropriately differentiate instruction for gifted learners. Preferred Qualifications: Master?s degree and/or experience working with a gifted education program preferred. Experience with twice exceptional students and with compacted curriculum is a plus. To be considered for a position: Apply to available positions via the Northwestern Human Resources Job Search Site. Search by entering CTD in the keywords field, and all available CTD positions will be returned. You may also enter the "Job ID" to locate the specific position (must click "More Options" and then enter the Job Opening ID #32426). Please read the full job posting for instructions on indicating your site preference(s) (Evanston, Chicago, Palatine, Naperville). For application or technical support questions, please contact tcadministration at northwestern.edu Computer Science and Technology Courses for Winter 2018: Tangible Programming: Coding with Your Hands, Grades K-1 Sunday - Evanston (AM & PM) How do you control a robot without written code? Control robots like Primo Cubetto and KIBO using colorful block commands. Learn how to make your code more elegant and efficient using interactive tools like the function block. Explore fundamental computer science concepts such as symbol and algorithm through dramatic play, construction, literature, and more! SUBJECT: Computer Science & Technology, Design & Engineering Introduction to Python Programming AM, Grades 3-4 Saturday - Evanston (AM & PM) How do you build original animations and game elements using simple code? Python is a powerful, flexible, yet simple object-oriented programming language with applications across fields from gaming to Google. Develop essential text-based coding skills while using lists, loops, if statements, and functions, for example. In a collaborative setting, workshop original images and patterns using Turtle Graphics with fellow coders. Add your own elements to computer games in order to see the power of Python at work. SUBJECT: Computer Science & Technology Java: Advanced Game Development Gr. 6-8 Sunday - Evaston (AM) Why is human understanding important when we write programs to be run by computers? In this next-level programming course, take basic Java programming principles and knowledge and apply it to more advanced projects. 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URL: From lane at strapr.com Thu Dec 14 22:59:12 2017 From: lane at strapr.com (Lane Campbell) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:59:12 -0800 Subject: [Chicago] Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Excel had some bad press lately about being difficult to connect with outside data sources for real time reporting. This is likely the most reasonable approach to solving that while simultaneously embracing and extending the open source ecosystem they so badly wanted to extinguish in the past. These days though cloud is a cash cow for them and I think it?s reasonable they would support python for the long term in multiple aspects with regard to their office suite. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 14, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Joshua Herman wrote: > > Not at all > I think they are actually making an upgrade path from VBA to python > > Making magic spreadsheets is nearly every job in a corporation >> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 6:08 PM Jeremy McMillan wrote: >> This looks like Microsoft realizing they are losing to Jupyter Notebook and Pandas + Matpotlib. >> >>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 4:38 PM, JP Bader wrote: >>> http://hn.premii.com/#/comments/15927132 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mikaeltamillow96 at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 08:21:09 2017 From: mikaeltamillow96 at gmail.com (Michael Tamillow) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 07:21:09 -0600 Subject: [Chicago] Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: My feedback: this should have been a conversation 20 years ago. Or as Anatoly Petrosyan always said: "Why must why, just do" On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Lane Campbell wrote: > Excel had some bad press lately about being difficult to connect with > outside data sources for real time reporting. This is likely the most > reasonable approach to solving that while simultaneously embracing and > extending the open source ecosystem they so badly wanted to extinguish in > the past. > > These days though cloud is a cash cow for them and I think it?s reasonable > they would support python for the long term in multiple aspects with regard > to their office suite. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 14, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Joshua Herman > wrote: > > Not at all > I think they are actually making an upgrade path from VBA to python > > Making magic spreadsheets is nearly every job in a corporation > On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 6:08 PM Jeremy McMillan > wrote: > >> This looks like Microsoft realizing they are losing to Jupyter Notebook >> and Pandas + Matpotlib. >> >> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 4:38 PM, JP Bader wrote: >> >>> http://hn.premii.com/#/comments/15927132 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zitterbewegung at gmail.com Mon Dec 18 20:12:17 2017 From: zitterbewegung at gmail.com (Joshua Herman) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 01:12:17 +0000 Subject: [Chicago] Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: It?s not like they haven?t tried to replace Visual Basic though. On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 7:24 AM Michael Tamillow wrote: > My feedback: this should have been a conversation 20 years ago. > > Or as Anatoly Petrosyan > always said: "Why must why, just do" > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Lane Campbell wrote: > >> Excel had some bad press lately about being difficult to connect with >> outside data sources for real time reporting. This is likely the most >> reasonable approach to solving that while simultaneously embracing and >> extending the open source ecosystem they so badly wanted to extinguish in >> the past. >> >> These days though cloud is a cash cow for them and I think it?s >> reasonable they would support python for the long term in multiple aspects >> with regard to their office suite. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Dec 14, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Joshua Herman >> wrote: >> >> Not at all >> I think they are actually making an upgrade path from VBA to python >> >> Making magic spreadsheets is nearly every job in a corporation >> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 6:08 PM Jeremy McMillan < >> jeremy.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> This looks like Microsoft realizing they are losing to Jupyter Notebook >>> and Pandas + Matpotlib. >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 4:38 PM, JP Bader wrote: >>> >>>> http://hn.premii.com/#/comments/15927132 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Chicago mailing list >>>> Chicago at python.org >>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From mgraves87 at gmail.com Tue Dec 19 21:15:39 2017 From: mgraves87 at gmail.com (Mark Graves) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:15:39 -0600 Subject: [Chicago] Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: No surprise here. Hell froze over a year ago: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/239616-hell-freezes-microsoft-joins-linux-foundation On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Joshua Herman wrote: > It?s not like they haven?t tried to replace Visual Basic though. > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 7:24 AM Michael Tamillow < > mikaeltamillow96 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> My feedback: this should have been a conversation 20 years ago. >> >> Or as Anatoly Petrosyan >> always said: "Why must why, just do" >> >> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Lane Campbell wrote: >> >>> Excel had some bad press lately about being difficult to connect with >>> outside data sources for real time reporting. This is likely the most >>> reasonable approach to solving that while simultaneously embracing and >>> extending the open source ecosystem they so badly wanted to extinguish in >>> the past. >>> >>> These days though cloud is a cash cow for them and I think it?s >>> reasonable they would support python for the long term in multiple aspects >>> with regard to their office suite. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Dec 14, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Joshua Herman >>> wrote: >>> >>> Not at all >>> I think they are actually making an upgrade path from VBA to python >>> >>> Making magic spreadsheets is nearly every job in a corporation >>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 6:08 PM Jeremy McMillan < >>> jeremy.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> This looks like Microsoft realizing they are losing to Jupyter Notebook >>>> and Pandas + Matpotlib. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 4:38 PM, JP Bader wrote: >>>> >>>>> http://hn.premii.com/#/comments/15927132 >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Chicago mailing list >>>> Chicago at python.org >>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 19, 2017, at 8:15 PM, Mark Graves wrote: > > No surprise here. > > Hell froze over a year ago: > > https://www.extremetech.com/computing/239616-hell-freezes-microsoft-joins-linux-foundation > >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Joshua Herman wrote: >> It?s not like they haven?t tried to replace Visual Basic though. >> >>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 7:24 AM Michael Tamillow wrote: >>> My feedback: this should have been a conversation 20 years ago. >>> >>> Or as Anatoly Petrosyan always said: "Why must why, just do" >>> >>>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Lane Campbell wrote: >>>> Excel had some bad press lately about being difficult to connect with outside data sources for real time reporting. This is likely the most reasonable approach to solving that while simultaneously embracing and extending the open source ecosystem they so badly wanted to extinguish in the past. >>>> >>>> These days though cloud is a cash cow for them and I think it?s reasonable they would support python for the long term in multiple aspects with regard to their office suite. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>>> On Dec 14, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Joshua Herman wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Not at all >>>>> I think they are actually making an upgrade path from VBA to python >>>>> >>>>> Making magic spreadsheets is nearly every job in a corporation >>>>>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 6:08 PM Jeremy McMillan wrote: >>>>>> This looks like Microsoft realizing they are losing to Jupyter Notebook and Pandas + Matpotlib. >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 4:38 PM, JP Bader wrote: >>>>>>> http://hn.premii.com/#/comments/15927132 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Chicago mailing list >>>> Chicago at python.org >>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From zitterbewegung at gmail.com Mon Dec 25 11:25:24 2017 From: zitterbewegung at gmail.com (Joshua Herman) Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 16:25:24 +0000 Subject: [Chicago] A mini-tutorial on deploying smart contracts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This is neat! I'm interested in learning smart contracts also. I have been only using solidity and I have gone through the tutorials. What did you think about using python vs using javascript and or solidity in this setting? On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 8:01 AM Adam Yala wrote: > Hey everyone! > > I wanted to learn smart contract development for work and started off with > a simple tutorial that was in javascript. To challenge myself I started > converting the tutorial to python. > > https://github.com/adamyala/Your_First_Decentralized_Application_Python > > I tried to make it as simple as possible and added lots of notes I wish I > had when I was learning. > > I'd love to know if there is anything I can add/change to make it clearer > and more simple. My goal is to eventually convert the entire thing to 100% > python. > > Cheers, > Adam > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adamkyala at gmail.com Mon Dec 25 13:54:47 2017 From: adamkyala at gmail.com (Adam Yala) Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 20:54:47 +0200 Subject: [Chicago] A mini-tutorial on deploying smart contracts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I first began learning about smart contracts ~2 months ago. At that time I made the first version of this python tutorial. 2 months ago the python tooling for solc (the solidity compiler python module) and web3py (the web3 python module) were awful compared to the javascript ones. I was actually really disappointed in how bad they were. In the two months that passed the python tools underwent huge changes and now I'd put them on par with the javascript tools. I'm completely blown away. I credit a lot of the speed to the folks at GitCoin . They create bots that put ethereum bounties on repo issues. They rely heavily on we3py so they encourage development on it and it shows. If anyone is looking to contribute to web3py and make a buck in the process the issues on the repo are sometimes given bounties of hundreds of dollars worth of ether. Python is going to be a great place to be for smart contract development! On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Joshua Herman wrote: > This is neat! I'm interested in learning smart contracts also. I have been > only using solidity and I have gone through the tutorials. What did you > think about using python vs using javascript and or solidity in this > setting? > > On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 8:01 AM Adam Yala wrote: > >> Hey everyone! >> >> I wanted to learn smart contract development for work and started off >> with a simple tutorial that was in javascript. To challenge myself I >> started converting the tutorial to python. >> >> https://github.com/adamyala/Your_First_Decentralized_Application_Python >> >> I tried to make it as simple as possible and added lots of notes I wish I >> had when I was learning. >> >> I'd love to know if there is anything I can add/change to make it clearer >> and more simple. My goal is to eventually convert the entire thing to 100% >> python. >> >> Cheers, >> Adam >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raymondwberg at gmail.com Fri Dec 29 13:23:33 2017 From: raymondwberg at gmail.com (Ray Berg) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:23:33 -0600 Subject: [Chicago] ChiPy Spring Mentorship Program! Message-ID: Happy Holidays Folks! As we go into some final celebrations and enjoy the last bits of holiday giving-ness...it's not too late to give your friends and family the most Pythonic gift of all: Tell them about the ChiPy Mentorship Program! https://chipymentor.org/ Hopefully, you've noticed how awesome this program has been for ChiPy and the Chicago Tech Community. Patrick Boland and I love this program with all our hearts, and we want it to flourish. But to keep it up, *we need Mentors and Mentees for our Spring session*. Forward this email to a couple people you think would do great as a Mentor or Mentee. We'll explain for them what we need: *Mentee*: You're anyone who wants to learn more Python than what you know. You've done at least some Python work (at least you have finished the CodeAcademy Python Course), and are looking for more help. Maybe you are new to programming or struggling with basic concepts (loops, conditionals, classes, building your first project). You could be a budding Web Developer that doesn't understand anything or as much as you'd like about building websites. Or you could be looking to become a better data analyst/scientist either coming from R or hoping to improve your chops. Really anything! If you've got the drive, we'll help you get where you're going. *Mentor*: See the above? If you could help a beginner get to building classes or doing an API call, you could be a mentor. If you have another skill set in Data Science or Web Development you could help someone orient themselves in this new environment. Rarely does a good mentor have all the answers, but they know enough about the landscape to show folks where resources are or to talk out problems with good principles and a bit of patience. You'll learn a lot in the process! It's winds up being one meeting a week plus 4 events over the year, and all on your schedule. If you are or know of a good person to become a Mentor or a Mentee, have them check out our application portal at https://chipymentor.org/portal. *We are taking applications until January 14th at 11:59PM. * All of the information on the Spring Term is available on the https://chipymentor.org site! Get answers to questions you might have about the program. Drop us a note on the site if you still have a question. This offering is again supported by our Featured Sponsor: *Twilio*. They've been an *awesome partner* to provide giveaways like T-Shirts, Raspberry Pis and paying for Pizza at our events. We love the folks at Twilio (and their great SMS/Voice APIs twilio.com) and appreciate their support for our program. We hope you'll join them in supporting our awesome program this spring. Become a Mentor or Mentee!! Respectfully, Ray Berg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: