ChiPy March 2017 Meeting: Python Beginner Theme

All, the ChiPy March meetup is upcoming and we have a great meeting planned. This month the talk theme is Beginning Python. However, whether you are new to Python or are a Python veteran, this meeting has some planned talks that you will surely enjoy. Also, if you are new to ChiPy, look for our Welcome Table, to meet some ChiPy members and get oriented. Hope to see you there!

Schedule:
6:00pm: doors open (food arrives)
6:30pm: Chipy Welcome table
7:00pm: Talks Start

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How I Taught My Dog To Text Selfies
By: Greg Baugues
Experience Level: Novice
This talk is is for Python developers who would like to get started with hardware hacking but have been too intimidated in the past to do so. Also, it's for people who like dogs and/or selfies. Using a Raspberry Pi, Python, Twilio, and a big red button, I taught my dog to text selfies. In this talk, which features 25 minutes of live coding, we'll build the hardware hack from scratch. Developers will walk away knowing how to use Python to interact with Twilio and the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins. A video of this hack was featured on Mashable and was watched over 2.5M times.

How To Develop and Deploy Faster using Python APIs
By: Paul Ebreo
Experience Level: Intermediate
Building and deploying applications has never been easier, especially with the proliferation of APIs. In this talk, I will share the 4 concepts that will allow Python developers to quickly learn and use any Python-based API. The target audience for this talk are intermediate newbies who have a couple of projects under their belt.

Quick prototyping with redis-helper
By: Kenneth Wade
Experience Level: Novice
In this talk, I will demonstrate some uses of https://pypi.python.org/pypi/redis-helper and how you can easily store, index, and modify Python dicts in Redis. Some asciinema demos are available at https://asciinema.org/~kenjyco