From Marisa.Soares at atkinsglobal.com  Fri Jul 14 10:33:31 2017
From: Marisa.Soares at atkinsglobal.com (Soares, Marisa)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:33:31 +0000
Subject: [Python Glasgow] Glasgow python events
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Dear all,

I just jumped across your events after knowing that my company is implementing python to solve some of our work.
I'm a geotechnical engineer (specialization of civil engineer) and I was wondering if, for a person that hardly knows how to program (except for a bit of VBA and Matlab), is worth to attend to this group sessions.
If not is any course you would recommend?

Thank you,

Marisa Soares
Geotechnical Engineer: Infrastructure

ATKINS
75 years of design, engineering and project management excellence

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From afshaw8 at gmail.com  Sun Jul 16 08:18:19 2017
From: afshaw8 at gmail.com (Alison Shaw)
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:18:19 +0100
Subject: [Python Glasgow] Glasgow python events and learning Python
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Hi Marisa,

I can't speak for attending the meetings since my own attendance has been
somewhat minimal (judge me, not the meetings ;-) ).
However, I started learning Python myself a couple of years ago and thought
it might be useful to share the resources that I used most when getting
started.

Codecademy is good for getting a feel for the basics of the language,
although be aware that it uses Python 2.7, whereas your company might be
using Python 3.x.
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python
I used this to get started, and once I felt it was getting a bit tedious
(perhaps because I have other programming experience) I started doing some
exercises from the daily programming subreddit, since I like to have clear
programming goals:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/
For solving issues that you encounter, the official Python documentation
and Stack Overflow are a great starting point:
https://www.python.org/doc/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python
And you might like to have a look at other Python-specific subreddits, e.g.:
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/top/?sort=top&t=all

I've also heard great things about this:
https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
Personally it wasn't to my tastes but you might like it more.

I hope that helps - good luck!
Alison


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From chris.hodder at beeksfx.com  Tue Jul 25 13:12:55 2017
From: chris.hodder at beeksfx.com (Chris Hodder)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 18:12:55 +0100
Subject: [Python Glasgow] Python Jobs in Glasgow
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Hi Everyone,

Thanks for adding me to the list. I know it looks pretty spammy to send 
a job recruitment message out as my first email, but I just wanted to 
try and get in touch with folks who might be interested in some jobs at 
the company I work for, as we're kind of struggling to get good developers.

We have 2 Python/Django Junior Web Developer roles, open to recent 
graduates or people with web developer experience looking to change 
languages. The plan is for one of these roles to be more back end or 
full stack, and the other to be more front end, which will mean getting 
stuck into Javascript and jQuery. I've attached a full job spec that 
we're using for the back end role.

To give you a little bit of a background, the company is Beeks Financial 
Cloud ( https://www.beeksfinancialcloud.com/ ). We do IaaS, providing 
VPS and DS and related services to the Forex (Foreign Exchange) market. 
We're fairly small (<40 people), but very dispersed (our lead developer 
is in New York for example). At the moment we're building a development 
team basically from scratch at our Glasgow (well... Paisley) HQ, to work 
on a web portal which customers can use to control and provision the 
servers we host (think AWS). The first version of the system is already 
in production, but we need to expand the functionality a lot, and there 
are further projects in the pipeline.

If you're interested, please drop myself an email ( 
chris.hodder at beeksfx.com ). If you know anyone who might be interested, 
please feel free to forward them this email/job spec.

We're also looking for a DevOps (as is everyone, I gather), so if you're 
looking to get into that or know anyone who is, get in touch or tell 
them to give me a shout and I can send a separate job spec.

Sorry again for the job spam (I'm not a recruiter, I swear! :) ), I hope 
to meet some of you at meet ups in the future.

Cheers

-Chris

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Dr. Chris Hodder

Software Engineer - Beeks Financial Cloud

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