April Monthly Meet

[Vijay Kumar]

= April Monthly Meet

== Date & Time

26th April
3:00pm to 5:00pm

== Venue

Zilogic Systems,
Fourth Main Road,
Kamaraj Nagar,
Thiruvanmiyur,
Chennai

Location map: http://www.zilogic.com/contact.html

== Agenda

Talk: Mining Twitter with Python
Speaker: Dorai Thodla
Duration: 45 min

Twitter is increasingly becoming a great resource for a variety of
information. Python is rapidly raising as the preferred language for
data gathering and analysis. This talk will demonstrate how to use
Python to gather tweet and do simple analysis.

Talk: Hacking Python: Adding a new Python Statement
Speaker: Vijay Kumar
Duration: 45 min

Python is a very good beginner's language. The 'turtle' module
enables, Python to be taught to school students. But there is one
difficulty in using Python as a beginner's language -- the higher
barrier to writing simple loops. 'while' loops require the
knowledge of variables, 'for' loops require the knowledge of lists!

LOGO has a loop statement called 'repeat <n>', that simplifies loops
to a great extent. This talk will show how to hack Python to add a
'repeat' statement to Python, like the one shown below. This talk
is based on the Stack Overflow response http://stackoverflow.com/a/215697

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# Draw Square
repeat 4:
turtle.fd(100)
turtle.rt(90)
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If you would like to give a lightning talk, just come prepared, we
will be able to accommodate you.

If you are new to Python, the tutorial at
http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python/ will give you a quick
overview of what Python is all about.

Regards,
Vijay