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All,

Thank you!

We're at the homestretch, and things look in great shape for tomorrow. 🍰

As an aid to keeping things focused today, I strongly recommend that the workshop content be frozen as of 4 am Friday morning.

Today is a day for janitorial tasks and keeping zen.

• Review and merge open pull requests

To simplify, keep communication focused, and hopefully avoid any git snafus with IPython notebook, these sub-teams are responsible for merging PRs in the following parts:

[ ] Part 0: @alaindomissy, @macro1, @jkrooskos
[ ] Part 1: @treyhunner, @riseriyo, @willingc
[ ] Part 2: @pydanny, @treyhunner, @willingc
[ ] Part 3: @audreyr, @pydanny, @willingc
[ ] Part 4: @treyhunner, @alaindomissy, @jkrooskos
[ ] Part 5: @audreyr, @pydanny, @willingc

• Address any known bugs with one of two options: a) fix and submit PR or b) remove troublemaking code, submit PR, and create an "enhancement issue" for a future workshop
• Sit back, relax, and marvel at the sunset :)

Rock on,
Carol

Add under the sponsors list:
"Special thanks to the sponsors of this free workshop:"

• Ansir Innovation Center
• Python Software Foundation
• OpenHatch

part2 : tungsten (I think) is much more desirable then tungston for a wedding ring

I read Some Suggestions for Teaching Python and one of the suggestions regarded teaching the distinction between the return statement and the print function. I think we should make this clear if possible.

After the exercises for dictionaries, let's mention that typing out the sets section is optional and we suggest that students sit back and relax because. Sets are great to know about, but you can always look up how they work when you need them.

Currently missing from the list, Inland Empire Python sponsors Inland Empire Pyladies and should get credit for it's support of Python and diversity in Southern California.

If there are issues in the future with launching ipython notebook when using Anaconda on a Mac and you receive a value error for utf-8, the solution is documented here by Aaron Meuer of Continuum:

http://conda.pydata.org/docs/troubleshooting.html#issue-valueerror-unknown-locale-utf-8-on-mac-os-x

simplify windows install instructions
guide user to general download page and big yellow button for py3.4.1
appropriate version for user's windows version will get downloaded

part1 is showing py2.7 code:
3 / 2 returns 1
3.0 / 2 returns 1.5
different results for integers and floats
this is no longer the case with python3

that was how the notion of type was introduced last time we ran that workshop : int versus float and the type() function

we need to update that part and possibly change the flow to introduce the notion of type in a differnet manner

Just opening an issue to note that there's still a TODO in part 3:

Raise your hand if you felt like this exercise was repetitive...TODO

By the way, the new explanations and examples in part 3 are great! I found them very entertaining. 👍

Audrey will have a slide presentation on the 20 cool things that Python can do.
Suggestion: Remove this section, "Why Python is so Great" from Part 1

• Just do a quick check-in by asking if everyone has the Python Environment setup on their computers. Next, talk about the Post-its that are being handed out as a way of asking questions or raise your hand and volunteers will come around to assist you. Then dive into the lecture....

I've got this 100% covered. Please give me room to finish :)

Definition of list comprehension. A bit confusing with statement, "inside-out for loop".

Suggestion: Explain term differently or add more to what you are defining it is as an 'inside-out for loop".

Change "Let's revisit a problem we've already solved:"

to "Let's revisit a problem we've already solved during Danny's lecture:"

Currently we show 5 examples of division in part 1. We did this originally to show the difference between integer/float division. In Python 3 all division results in a float, so I think we can reduce the number of examples.

Currently we have:

4 / 2
1 / 2
3 / 2
15 / 2
1.0 / 2

Maybe we should change this to just a couple. I propose:

4 / 2
3 / 2

This is a reminder (mainly for me) to check where would be a good spot to add a link to the official Python Tutorial https://docs.python.org/3.4/tutorial/index.html

I did a quick search of the repo and didn't see it included. Seems reasonable to include.

@treyhunner I merged your changes. I noticed one technical issue when running under 3.4.1.

This line below only outputs the words to stdout and does not place word into translated words dictionary:
translated_words = [print(words[spanish_word]) for spanish_word in sentence_words]

When I executed next line:
translated_words
the dictionary contains 6 elements with the value 'None'

Removing print correctly creates translated_words.

Do we need to do the Welcome, The Game Plan, and Python Setup in Part 1? In the Google docs outline for the day: these sections seem to be covered under:
9:30 - Welcome/Intros
and then in Part 0 - the environment setup which is from 9:00am - 9:30am.

Suggestion: Remove The Welcome, The Game Plan, and Python Setup from Part 1.

• Just introduce yourself as Presenter and Typist, check if everyone is setup with their python environments on their computes, go over post-its and the greeters/helpers who will assist participants, Do a quick outline of what peeps will learn in Part 1, Then dive into material...

Just a heads up that I'm adding a big section to "Instructions For Students" in the README with the agenda, links to slides, etc.

The purpose is so they can follow along locally with our slides/notes in case they fall behind.

If anyone would be willing to fix my revert mess, I would be most appreciative.

I would like to roll back to this commit 3ef06df

Thanks
@treyhunner, @macro1 ???

There's a great simple sets example in part 2 and I have sets in part 4 also.

I the example in part 2 better than the one in part 4. For how infrequently I use sets, mine is a little too in-depth I think (we go over intersection and such).

I think I should remove sets from part 4. I could replace the example with tuples or just leave it out and we could give more time for exercises.

What does everyone else think?

Concerning the squared_numbers example:
Ok, I'm assuming that you are going to go over how the list comprehension is written out differently from a for-loop, correct? e.g., what part of the for-loop is where in the list comprehension, etc.

Not an issue but an idea may be:
We are going to mention different resources available for learners beyond this workshop
(at end of part 5?)
Would this one be nice to have as a resource: ?
http://pythontutor.com/ "LEARN programming by visualizing code execution"

Possibly public domain or other Creative Commons license. Actually, when I use Creative Commons licensed materials, I enjoy the attribution part because it encourages friendly sharing and crediting between projects, and also it makes it easy to track down original sources.

For example, I attributed our Part 0 section here to DjangoGirls Tutorial: Python Installation, who attributed it in turn to Geek Girls Carrots. It's really cool to trace back and discover that our setup instructions were originally written in Polish for women programmers in Warsaw! Attribution history can be fun to read.

We should add Mac install instructions.

I realized this evening that multiple Python versions installed on Windows coexist nicely as documented here: https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html

For this workshop, using 3.4 installed through the official installation package is done by using py -3 instead of python.exe.

I know for Ubuntu, python usually indicates 2.7 usage while python3 is linked to the latest version of 3.