Thanks for the kind words Kirby and Stephen! Looking up the PDX PUG was the best thing I did in this trip. I had I great time presenting to you and drinking beer afterwards.
I am specially grateful to Paul M who kindly hosted me at his place with his wonderful family. Also thanks to everyone else who offered me places to stay when I asked. You rock! And if you ever come to São Paulo, let me know. I hope to see you all next year at PyCon! Cheers, Luciano On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Stephen McCray <[email protected]> wrote: > I concur whole-heartedly. I really enjoyed Luciano's talk at the PDX > Python event night and immediately got Fluent Python afterwards. I haven't > gotten all the way through it but so far I think it's a great book for > taking people from "good Python programmers" to "excellent Python > programmers." > > As an aside, I'd also like to remind people that the Portland Python Users > Group works with O'Reilly and that you can get a 50% discount off of eBooks > and 40% off of print books (including Fluent Python) by using the discount > code PCBW on their site. > > -Bracket > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 9:41 AM, kirby urner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Followup: >> >> I really enjoyed both talks Luciano gave at OSCON. >> >> My college-age daughter is deeply into using Arduinos and such for serious >> science [1] and is studying Python both in her college and through O'Reilly >> where I work. I wrote to her about Pin.go right away. >> >> As a perk of my job I also get Safari Books On-Line where Luciano's new >> O'Reilly book, Fluent Python, has recently appeared. I'm finding it really >> useful and apropos given my day job as a Python mentor. Lots of details >> I've wanted to study up on but as too lazy to do so, are now succinctly >> summarized for me, such as how hashing works and the relationship of >> __hash__ and id etc. >> >> I've always been impressed by the emerging Pythonista subculture in Brazil >> and Luciano reinforces my admiration. Two OSCONs ago I hung out with Tatia >> from Brazil, who's dad is a professor of literature. She was really >> excited by my i18n focus and hopes of getting more of our own curriculum in >> Portuguese in a way customized for Brazilian mentors. >> >> Kirby >> >> >> [1] http://earlham.edu/news/article/?id=37371&r=14619 >> (that's my daughter holding the microphone) >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: < >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/portland/attachments/20150822/61250ff5/attachment.html >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Portland mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/portland/attachments/20150822/31ede8cd/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Portland mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland -- Luciano Ramalho | Author of Fluent Python (O'Reilly, 2015) | http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032519.do | Professor em: http://python.pro.br | Twitter: @ramalhoorg _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
