I’ve just had confirmation that Jim Jackson can definitely open up the room for us (thanks, Jim).
The meeting will, therefore, definitely go ahead at the usual time and place (see details in the original announcement below).
It may be a brief affair, if no-one has much to say, with a swift departure to the pub.
Tom Hall is unable to deliver the planned talk, and we have yet to confirm a replacement.
In addition to that problem, we have also been unable to confirm that someone will be around to open the room at the University.
This warning is a only precaution. The meeting will go ahead, if we can open the room, and if someone volunteers to provide one or more, off-the-cuff, short talks.
Talk:
A talk on the programming language Python, in 3 parts (feel free to leave in the interludes if you have had enough)
A bit of history and the design of the language, a look at all the implementations available today, quick tour of built-in and commonly used modules and future plans.
A quick tour of the language: builtin types, control structures, using modules etc.
Some relatively recent changes that make programming Python even more pleasurable. Decorators, Generators, List comprehensions, Iterators, Functools and anything else I can fit in. Again a whirlwind tour, but you should be impressed and want to read up on these some more.
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Location:
Active Learning Lab., (Level 9, near staircase 2)Directions: