Python Project Night
Details
Come work on Python projects, get programming help, help others, and hang out. Everything is self-paced. Bring your own project or work on one of the suggested projects below. Everyone is welcome, all skill levels are encouraged. Friendly people will be here to help beginning Python programmers with language basics and practice. If you prefer to work on things on your own, that is okay too!
OpenShop - Bring your own project!
GuidedShop - We will have a project for you. You'll be working in team.
Things to bring: a wireless-enabled laptop and power cord.
Some of us chat on #pythonprojectnight on freenode. It is handy for sharing links to information and pastebins. If you don't have an irc client, you can connect to the channel via a web client, like #pythonprojectnight (https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/?nick=pyproj%7C?#pythonprojectnight)
The Python Office Hours wiki (https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Python_Office_Hours) has links to projects and tutorials. Here are some of the links:
Projects
http://bit.ly/intermediate-python-projects Practice the language and practical Python applications through bite-sized projects with scaffolding provided.
http://newcoder.io/ NewCoder is for when you get to the point where you say “Well, I worked through this beginner book. Now what?” It has tutorials on Data Visualization, APIs, Web Scraping, Networking
Tutorials
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
Interactive Tutorials
Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures (http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/index.html)
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/thinkcspy/index.html)
Online Python Consoles
https://www.pythonanywhere.com
Try Jupyter (https://try.jupyter.org)