Next meeting: Tue October 6th, RealVNC offices

[Tom Lynn]

Sorry about the delay in confirming this, but yes, RealVNC are still
happy to be hosting.

For those who haven't been before, the location is "Betjeman House",
the other end of Station Road from the railway station, as shown here:
http://tinyurl.com/realvncoffices

We have slides from some previous talks on our wiki here:
http://www.campug.org.uk:8100/wiki/Talks

Unfortunately there are several past talks we don't have details or
slides for. If anyone who talked would like to add details of their
talk (preferably with slides if you still have them), that would be
great. You'll need to log in as "campug" with a password of your
favourite programming language :-)

Tom

[Tibs]

On Oct 1, 2:31 pm, Tom Lynn <tom.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry about the delay in confirming this, but yes, RealVNC are still
> happy to be hosting.

Thanks Tom.

So, the next meetings is:

* Tuesday 6th October, at 7.30pm, at RealVNC

Volunteers to talk so far are David Guaraglia (on Twisted, and maybe
Tornado) and Bryan Cole (on Co-routines and Data Acquisition).

The following meetings are then scheduled to be:

* Tuesday 3rd November, pub meeting
* Tuesday 1st December, talks meeting
* Tuesday 5th January, pub meeting

Tibs

[Tom Lynn]

On Oct 1, 7:53 pm, Tibs <t...@tibsnjoan.co.uk> wrote:
> So, the next meetings is:
>
> * Tuesday 6th October, at 7.30pm, at RealVNC
>
> Volunteers to talk so far are David Guaraglia (on Twisted, and maybe
> Tornado) and Bryan Cole (on Co-routines and Data Acquisition).

I'm also happy to talk. Topics that spring to mind that I could
probably say something about:

* "Why [Not] Python?" (Python compared to other languages)
* "Debugging Python" (basic, console, web apps, vs. other
languages)
* "[Not] Teaching Programming" (attempts so far, my ideas)
* "Railroad syntax diagrams" (plug for some code for generating
these)

I probably don't have time to prepare enough to do the first two
justice, but the latter two are only mini-talks. So unless other
people volunteer (please do!), I'll do "[Not] Teaching Programming"
and maybe shoe-horn in the last one if we have time. (I've kept the
whole list here in case we're low on speakers in the future and I need
some ideas.)

Tom

[Robin Newton]

>    * "[Not] Teaching Programming" (attempts so far, my ideas)

After Tom's talk I mentioned that there were people trying to do this
without the use of computers. Here's the URL:

http://csunplugged.org/

[Note: although when I stumbled across this I found it intriguing, I
have absolutely no idea - being neither a parent nor a teacher - how
well this works in practice.]

Robin