Hi all I was asked at the end of my talk whether the code was available. At the time it wasn't but I've just published a new post on my blog [1] summarising my presentation and pushed the code to github [2]. Questions, suggestions and collaborators would all be warmly received.
For teaching programming, and specifically python programming, I remembered a few other resources after the meeting. Dive into Python [3] is focused more at experienced programmers but it might be worth taking a look at some of the links in the sidebar. I haven't read Python for Software Design [4] but I've found the Think Stats book by the same author to be good. Learn Python the Hard Way [5] is a relatively new book that seems to be getting good reviews. I'm not sure any of those will be better for teaching a class (I originally got into programming through game related projects) but they should give some more options [1] http://jonathanstreet.com/blog/full-text-visualisation/ [2] https://github.com/streety/Full-text-visualisation [3] http://diveintopython.org/ & http://diveintopython3.org/ [4] http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/index.html [5] http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ On 18 August 2011 15:32, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > > Tonight we're holding a Python Northwest talks meeting with bumper lineup > of interesting topics: > > - Jonathan Street: Building full text visualisations of PDF documents with > Python > - Alan O'Donohoe: GCSE Computing and Python > - Safe Hammad: Apache Thrift and Python > > Meeting details: > > * When: Tonight! Thursday 18th August @ 7pm. (Though some will be > probably there from 6:30pm). > > * Where: MadLab, Manchester > - URL: http://madlab.org.uk/ > - Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN in the Norther > Quarter (just opposite Common Bar/Cafe/Restaurant). > - Map: http://bit.ly/hgTNln > > Further details about today's meeting and past meetings can be found at > http://pynw.org.uk/. > > Look forward to seeing you later! > > Safe > > > Safe Hammad > http://safehammad.com > @safehammad > > -- > To post: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west > -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west
