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"ACM seminar in the HP Oak room in Cupertino. Presenter Wesley Chun has written 3 books on Python Register here: http://www.sfbayacm.o... ... MoreACM Python Professional Development Seminar We are very excited about having one a major trainer and book author on the subject, Wesley Chun. Location: HP Cupertino, Pruneridge & Wolfe Hewlett Packard, Building 48, Oak Room, 19483 Pruneridge Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014 Date & Duration: November 7, 2009; 8:30 am – 4:00pm Cost: SFBAY local chapter member $125, non-member $145 Prerequisites: Programming basics SIGN UP NOW! at the web site Trainer bio: WESLEY J. CHUN, MSCS, is the author of Prentice Hall’s bestseller, “Core Python Programming” (http://corepython.com..., its video training course, “Python Fundamentals” (LiveLessons DVD), and co-author of “Python Web Development with Django” (http://withdjango.com.... In addition to being a senior software architect, he also runs CyberWeb (http://cyberwebconsul..., a consulting business specializing in Python software engineering and technical training. He has over 25 years of programming, teaching, and writing experience, including more than a decade of Python. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Music from the University of California. Seminar Details Introduction to Python Wesley J. Chun Python is an agile object-oriented programming language that is continuing to build momentum… popular with open source developers as one incarnation of LAMP for applications and web development, especially for Python’s web frameworks that are similar to Rails: Django (including Google App Engine), TurboGears, Pylons, Zope and Plone (all RIA platforms), plus Trac and Mailman, the wiki+issue-tracker and popular mailing list manager, respectively. Web developers know about JSON already, but did you know that it maps nearly identically to Python’s dictionary/hash type? Of course Python can do XML/ReST/XSLT for the web too, but there are also numerous libraries for: multithreading, SQL/databases, GUIs, math/science/numerical processing, Internet client/server systems and networking (heard of Twisted?), GIS/ESRI, QA/test, automation frameworks, plus system administration tasks too! If Python doesn’t do what you want, you can extend it in C/C++, Java, or C# (and even VB.NET)! Have you noticed the huge growth in the number of jobs on Monster and Dice that list Python as a desired skill? With Python, you can create just about any app that most modern languages (i.e., Java, C/C++/C#, Ruby, PHP, and Perl) enable, but it’s more fun and intuitive! You can code as fast as you think! Because of Python’s simple yet robust syntax, it’s a great tool to teach programming (heard of Alice?) with as well as a solid (first) language to learn for non-programmers and other technical staff. Come find out why Google, Yahoo!, Disney, Cisco, YouTube, BitTorrent, LucasFilm/ILM, VMware, NASA, Ubuntu, and Red Hat all use Python! Covered in the seminar: - Getting Started - Background & Resources - Language Introduction - Importing: Modules & Packages - Standard Data Types, Operators & Built-ins - Files and Input/Output - Flow Control: Loops and Conditionals - Errors and Exceptions - Creating & Calling Functions & Methods - Python Object-Oriented Programming - Recent Updates to Python - Python 2 vs. Python 3 (the next generation) "

"http://sfbayacm.org/e... Presented by:Sean K. Murphy, SKMurphy, Inc. ... MoreDate: Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 6:30 PM Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions), Bldg. 48, Oak Room Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, CA Topic How can teams become more effective at making decisions quickly and reaching a working consensus? Join us as we explore team decision making, the challenges in blending human expertise, and the use of software tools to maintain a shared situational awareness and improve the timeliness and quality of decisions. This talk explores problems that engineering teams and startups wrestle with as they move from hunches to working technology to product to repeatable, scalable processes. This talk will cover how groups make decisions and how to systemically approach the management of exploration and verification cycles in product and customer development situations. Whether you are a solo entrepreneur, a talented engineer, a manager or a CEO you will learn some practical tips for leading your team to successful decision making. About the Speaker Sean Murphy has taken an entrepreneurial approach to life since he could drive. His firm, SKMurphy, Inc. helps software startups transform their technology development focus to a customer development focus and accelerate their business with scalable sales, marketing, and business operations. SKMurphy, Inc. specializes in early stage and emerging market software companies who are challenged either by new product introduction or the need to diversify beyond their initial success. Some clients are in transition from delivering their technology primarily as consulting to a full product. "