February Project Night

February 05, 2013

   

Come work on Python projects, get programming help, help others, and hang out.

Bring your own project or work on one of the suggested projects below. Everyone is welcome, all skill levels are encouraged. Tell your friends: http://meetup.bostonpython.com/events/77939352/

Staff from the Boston Python Workshop (http://openhatch.org/wiki/Boston_Python_Workshop) will be here to help beginning Python programmers with language basics and practice.

Thanks to Digitas (http://digitas.com/) for sponsoring the night!

Audience: Everyone! All Python experience levels are welcome, and everything is self-paced.

When: 6:30pm - 9:30pm on Tuesday, February 5th.

Location: Microsoft NERD

One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142

Food: Pizza will be provided.

Things to bring: a wireless-enabled laptop and power cord.

Need some project ideas? How about:

Learning Python

The official Python tutorial (http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/introduction.html) How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python (http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/) An introduction to Python through writing games (http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/) Learn Python the Hard Way (http://learnpythonthehardway.org) Projects and competitions

Try some of our Intermediate Workshop projects (http://bit.ly/intermediate-python-projects). Contribute to an open-source project that uses Python. Developers from OpenHatch (http://openhatch.org/), Twisted (http://twistedmatrix.com/), and other projects are often here. If you contribute to an open source project that uses Python and want to help new contributors, let us know in a comment! Use Python to participate in space exploration (http://spacehack.org) Unleash your inner DJ with the Echo Nest (http://code.google.com/p/pyechonest/) and Echo Nest Remix (http://code.google.com/p/echo-nest-remix/) APIs Want to learn a Python web framework? Check out the Django tutorial (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/)

Meetup link: https://www.meetup.com/bostonpython/events/77939352/

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