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From: Rocco Marras <roboc...@gmail.com>
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I'm in!

On Nov 8, 8:22=A0pm, Michael S <senk...@umich.edu> wrote:
> Thought I'd throw it out there, if you're looking for something sorta fun
> to play with while learning python's workflow more, the 3D modeling progr=
am
> Rhino recently upgraded and its scripting methods are in python now rathe=
r
> than visual basic. Just google Rhinoscripting to see what can result from
> this, might not be super useful per se but i3 does have a laser cutter an=
d
> cnc mill, you could use it as a learning excercise and get some cool stuf=
f
> in the mean time.
>
> Michael Senkow
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Aaron Dubin <aarondu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just to whet folk's appetite if anyone's a real eager beaver, you might
> > want to check out the MIT Opencourseware page for their introductory
> > Computer Science course which is taught entirely in Python. It's far le=
ss
> > about the language and more about PLC, but it's a good way to brush up =
on
> > your skills if they've been sitting idle for too long as well as a good=
 way
> > to get your feet wet in Python before a class.
>
> > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:50 PM, eric=A9 <ericli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> I would be closest to "don't know jack", yes :P =A0Like many kids, I d=
id
> >> BASIC/QBASIC in high school, but that was well over a decade ago, and
> >> I doubt I'd be able to do much beyond the Hello World program now (not
> >> to mention it really doesn't compare much to modern languages
> >> anyways).
>
> >> I'm not expecting college level educations here, just kind of a rough
> >> intro, get the basics down kinda thing.
> >> Eric
>
> >> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Matt Oehrlein <matt.oehrl...@gmail.com=
>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Depends what you mean by "non programmer".
> >> > if you don't know any computer language, it's probably doable if we =
go
> >> > slowly.
> >> > If you know a bit of any other language (c, java, whatever) but don'=
t
> >> really
> >> > program as your day-job, you can pick this up easily.
> >> > The class basically just teaches you how to hack together simple
> >> scripts to
> >> > scrape webpages, or parse and sort text files, etc. Very quick-n-dir=
ty
> >> but
> >> > practical stuff.
> >> > -Matt
>
> >> > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:28 PM, eric=A9 <ericli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> >> Don't have the time to look at the links right now, but am
> >> curious...would
> >> >> this be suitable for the non programmers as well?
>
> >> >> Eric
>
> >> >> On Nov 7, 2011 4:20 PM, "Matt Oehrlein" <matt.oehrl...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
>
> >> >>> Anyone interested in a python class + hack session? Maybe a 2 day
> >> thing?
> >> >>> We can just steal the videos
> >> >>> from:http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/and
> >> work
> >> >>> through the exercises as a group. I think I could host it, but I
> >> would need
> >> >>> a few python experts on hand to answer questions. I've taken this
> >> before and
> >> >>> it's a great crash course. I'm still very much a python
> >> >>> beginner-intermediate though.
> >> >>> Who are our python gurus?
>
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