From kirby.urner at gmail.com Sat Sep 17 15:02:21 2016 From: kirby.urner at gmail.com (kirby urner) Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 12:02:21 -0700 Subject: [Edu-sig] update from Portland... Message-ID: Greeting edu-sig subscribers -- News from PDX (Portland) is: * I've been taking R-Pi around town, showing off this nifty "Py machine", great intro to bash shell world http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2016/09/wanderers-201696.html * Hedron, local Maker Space, exhibitor at Maker Faire, 3D prints polyhedrons our math teachers need... http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2016/09/art-car.html * ...Python already has the computing culture to make itself known through Jupyter Notebooks etc., yay http://4dsolutions.net/ocn/ * I'm back to teaching night school next week, Python 3.x in five weeks (40 hours). If you visit Portland: Python User Group meets c/o @UrbanAirship in Meir & Frank building on SW Everett. The group is well-organized and active. PDX Code Guild, Flying Circus, is every Monday (almost) and happens in a Python-based code school but features talks more all over the map. 2626 SW Corbett. Calagator is our most used geek events resource: http://calagator.org/ Also, Mercury just put out a helpful newcomers guide: http://www.portlandmercury.com/Newcomers-Guide-2016/2016/09/14/18565180/a-newcomer-helping-newcomers Kirby -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kirby.urner at gmail.com Thu Sep 22 12:57:43 2016 From: kirby.urner at gmail.com (kirby urner) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 09:57:43 -0700 Subject: [Edu-sig] a thirty minute interview of Kirby (courtesy of Nepris) Message-ID: If curious, here's a trail head with the actual link: https://twitter.com/4DsolutionsPDX/status/778998480874250241 This was my session with the Austin Texas high school kids, mentioned here: http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2016/09/talk-like-pirate.html Kirby -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kirby.urner at gmail.com Thu Sep 22 13:58:24 2016 From: kirby.urner at gmail.com (kirby urner) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:58:24 -0700 Subject: [Edu-sig] a thirty minute interview of Kirby (courtesy of Nepris) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ... sorry about all the squinting, that's probably why the students looked so blurry. :-D PS: I proposed tying off python-cuba as we achieved our goal of fully integrating Cuba into the Python ecosystem. http://conf.scipyla.org/ Our grand strategy work is done. The rest of the work is details details. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kirby.urner at gmail.com Tue Sep 27 16:12:24 2016 From: kirby.urner at gmail.com (kirby urner) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:12:24 -0700 Subject: [Edu-sig] a thirty minute interview of Kirby (courtesy of Nepris) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Also, I say web applications are a "core" application of Python, not a "poor" one -- the Bluetooth microphone tends to cut out on those sibilants, if that's what they're called; I'm not a linguist. >From this morning: Kirby Urner about 2 hours ago I much enjoyed an opportunity to yak with students in Austin, TX on Sept > 19, about my career in industry as a computer programmer and Python > teacher. Thanks to Nepris for facilitating these types of meetups. You'll > find I've posted about my Raspberry Pi focus here as well (Python and R-Pi > overlap) however that's a vast territory, like I've barely ever played > MineCraft (there's a toy version installed, use Python to control it). In > other words, I'm always learning from industry as well, can't pretend to be > some "know it all" (which I'm not!). > https://oregonconnections.nepris.com/sessions/session/detail/47501 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kirby.urner at gmail.com Tue Sep 27 16:17:40 2016 From: kirby.urner at gmail.com (kirby urner) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:17:40 -0700 Subject: [Edu-sig] more Silicon Forest slant... Message-ID: If you wanna get more nitty gritty details on our work in Portland, and Oregon (a US state, Portland not the capital), here's a recent link, a good trail head: http://mail.geneseo.edu/pipermail/math-thinking-l/2016-September/000785.html Looking ahead to Pycon 2017: Those who say "Pythun", UKers mostly, are already ahead in saying "Orygun" the way we do. Portlanders make fun of out-of-towners who say "Ore-Gone" as they say "Poly-Gone" (as in "Where has Polly gone?"). Our insiders say "Oregun" as in "Where did Polly leave her gun this time? What a ditz!" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: