I would love to see a compendium of links or tutorials, especially with a
section for us beginners.
The thought of no need for a "local user group" was interesting. I live in
the middle of nowhere (that's East of the Cascades for you rain soaked
people) and never get a chance to go to a class or interact with anyone and
find it frustrating. I will never get past beginner without some one on one
time. That's okay though because it is a pseudo-hobby that will always take
second seat to motorcycles, wine, and my day job. But like my day job, I
constantly seek out new information to help me do it better; I was hoping
Python would fill a gap but it hasn't so far. Face to face usually works
best for me but I must be getting old since I now live a time where people
text and email more than they talk (even when sitting next to each other or
in the same office). You might as well automate and remove all contact but
then again, that's why our IT group can't deliver a product that is usable
to us - they won't come and see the need in the field. I hope you keep up
with meetings.
I use stackoverflow and a number of the vb/vba sites and find answers for
specific questions (since I don't have a face to call). It would be
interesting to see a Python specific forum similar in nature.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin LaTona
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 8:37 PM
To: Seattle Python Interest Group
Subject: Re: [SEAPY] no February meeting scheduled
On Feb 18, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Mike Orr wrote:
One idea might be to write tutorials together. Or, since there are a lot
of tutorials already scattered on blogs and the like, organize them into
a "Best of the net" index on the SeaPIG site. That would help both our
future members and others. To focus the work, each person could pick a
few topics and then scour the net for the best two tutorials on those
topics. Or if you can't find two that you consider "best" or "high
quality", that tells us what's missing
While I think that that is a darn good idea for a meeting this site is
all ready pretty close to doing it.
http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/
http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/systems-programming/regular-expressions-in-python/
Thinking out loud here but I wonder if the need for a "local user
group" has come to end of life?
As it feels like everyone has moved over to places like stackoverflow,
reddit, hackernews, twitter, linkedin, irc, etc, etc.
Maybe it time to ask folks what you want or need from a local group vs
waiting for a once a year event like PyCon for a little face to face
time.
-Kevin
