Python Code Lab

This day long workshop is for anyone who wants a crash course on Python. It will start with the basics and work its way up in to frameworks and making your code work with other systems.

Schedule

10:00-11:00 Setting up your environment (Ubuntu, Python)

11:30-13:00 Developing with Python

• Unit Tests by Peter:
• Interactive session with comments by the panel and some group-inspired test-driven coding
• Unicode by Rob

Why everyone needs to be aware of unicode, and how Python can make your life much easier. Useful URLs:

• http://chardet.feedparser.org
• http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html
• http://www.atm.ox.ac.uk/user/iwi/charmap.html
• http://jtauber.com/2006/02/13/pyuca.py PLUS:
• http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCA/latest/allkeys.txt
• SLIDES: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~azaroth/papers/unicode.pdf

• Python 2.x vs Python 3.x by all (Panel Dicussion)
• http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html
• SLIDES: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~azaroth/papers/python3.pdf

13.00-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-16.30 Frameworks and Tools

• DjangoGAE by Brian

Useful URL's

• http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html - Google app engine SDK
• http://code.google.com/p/app-engine-patch/ - Google app engine patch
• eclipse.org - An IDE that does python

• Data Mining by Rob

Discovering hidden, interesting patterns in your data! Practical focus on several tools that you can use. Useful URLs:

• http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/
• http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/cluto/cluto/download
• http://fimi.cs.helsinki.fi/src/fimi01.tgz
• SLIDES: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~azaroth/papers/datamining.pdf

• Web Services by Ben
• Slides and screencast examples - http://developerhappinessdays.googlecode.com/files/dev8d-presentation.pdf

Related Links

• Pre Print of O'Reilly Google App Engine Book - Python/Django (on loan from the author Dr. Chuck Severance)