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Hi all,
You've all been approved for the Dive into Python course. This is going to be a fairly casual course but the first thing we should nail down is the syllabus. I was thinking we might want to just pick 9 chapters of the 18 we're most interested in.
Chapter 3. Native Datatypes- due 05/01/11
Chapter 4. The Power Of Introspection- due 05/08/11
Chapter 5. Objects and Object−Orientation- due 05/15/11
Chapter 6. Exceptions and File Handling- due 05/22/11
Chapter 7. Regular Expressions
Chapter 8. HTML Processing
Chapter 9. XML Processing
Chapter 10. Scripts and Streams
Chapter 11. HTTP Web Services
Chapter 12. SOAP Web Services
Chapter 13. Unit Testing
Chapter 14. Test−First Programming
Chapter 15. Refactoring
Chapter 16. Functional Programming
Chapter 17. Dynamic functions
Chapter 18. Performance Tuning
We are definitely covering 3-6 since those are the core of python language itself, but 7-18 are more interest specific and not as dependant on each other. I would appreciate a post on this forum from everyone about which 6 of the remaining 12 chapters you're most interested in covering.
Thanks!
M.V.
Hello,
I vote for chapters 7, 8, 9, 11, 17, 18
Thanks
Hi, my vote is for
7, 16, 17, 18 and 11 & 12.
Hey hi,
I almost agree with Caronte,
I too vote for 8, 9, 11, 12, 17, 18
I vote for 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15
Hi!
My vote goes to 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
Hi all,
my vote: 7,9,10,11,17,18
Hi!!
My vote goes to:
Chapter 7. Regular Expressions
Chapter 13. Unit Testing
Chapter 14. Test−First Programming
Chapter 15. Refactoring
Chapter 17. Dynamic functions
Chapter 18. Performance Tuning
Thanks
8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15
Thanks
Howdy, all.
My vote goes for:
Chapter 8,
Chapter 10,
Chapter 11,
Chapter 12,
Chapter 16,
Chapter 17
Cheers
Hello!
My vote goes to: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 18.
Thanks!
My preference would be:
Chapter 7. Regular Expressions
Chapter 8. HTML Processing
Chapter 9. XML Processing
Chapter 10. Scripts and Streams
Chapter 11. HTTP Web Services
Chapter 18. Performance Tuning
My Preference:
Chapter 8. HTML Processing
Chapter 10. Scripts and Streams
Chapter 11. HTTP Web Services
Chapter 14. Test−First Programming
Chapter 16. Functional Programming
Chapter 17. Dynamic functions
Hello,
I would be most interested in covering the following chapters:
Chapter 7. Regular Expressions
Chapter 10. Scripts and Streams
Chapter 13. Unit Testing
Chapter 16. Functional Programming
Chapter 17. Dynamic functions
Chapter 18. Performance Tuning
-Tim
Hello everyone!
My pick is the following:
Chapters 7,8,9,11,16,17
Cheers!
Hey guys,
my votes go to chapters: 8, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18.
Silver.
Hi all.
My vote goes to 7, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17
Hey all, the (mostly) finalized syllabus is posted at http://p2pu.org/node/25730/document/25731
One more thing we might want to think about is having projects along with this course- is anyone interested in doing something like that? When I was leading Learn Python The Hard Way the major project was to write a simple text based game. If we did that in this course we could start writing it now and improving it as we went through the first 6 chapters, and share them May 1st. Does this sound like something we'd want to do?
I think that sounds like a great idea. In order to learn something well it helps to have practical application of the topics to apply the knowledge to and practice. I'm all for it.
-Tim
Yes that is the sort of thing I was hoping we could do during the course. A friend of mine was showing me an interactive game he had written in a couple of days using a toolkit called pygame. He had not written anything in Python before. That might be worth a look at.
I think it's a great idea, yes. If we don't practice enough what we learn... it's like we never learned at all :)
I think that building scripts while we go/a small app through the course is a great idea. But May 1? Did you want a working script, or an idea to work on? Or is that June 1?
I've come across Python scripts before that seemed familiar but when every I'd try to dig into them I always ended up shaking my head and stopping after a little bit of time. I'm most interested in learning Python to help script GIMP, tweak G-Edit plugins/sysadmin scripts I come across and maybe be able to work on some Django projects.
I'd like to work on a project that included something along those lines.
Whoops! I meant June 1st. I picked a text based game because they can be as complicated (or uncomplicated) as your skill level, but obviously people can pick different projects if they really want to.