pykc_coffee_20150613.markdown

PythonKC June 2015 Coffee & Code

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-


def greetings():
    print("Welcome to PythonKC Coffee & Code.")
    print("Today is Saturday 13 June 2015.")
    print("Thanks to Sprint Accelerator.")


if __name__ == '__main__':
    greetings()

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July PyKC Coffee & Code

• 11 July 2015
• Disruption Institute

PythonKC Summer Meetup

• Thursday 27 August 2015
• Minted
• A software engineer from Minted will be giving a presentation
• Still looking for two other presentations

Python News

• Marina Mele: TaskBuster Django Tutorial
• Quantified Code: Django Anti-Patterns
• Arun Ravindran: Python 3 Cheatsheet for Djangonauts
• Owais Lone: Let's modernize the way we handle frontend code with Django
• Richard Xie: Open-Sourcing Your Own Python Library 101
• Julien Danjou: Get back up and try again: retrying in Python
• Ryan Brown: Optimizing Python - a Case Study
• Daniel Roy Greenfeld: Why Doesn't Python Have Switch/Case?

Homework

• Listen to Podcast.__init__ Episode 5
• Visit Boston Python's Meetup.com page
• Visit ChiPy's website
• Think about what PythonKC could do to get more of our 700+ members involved