Sept Project Night

Come work on Python projects, get programming help, help others, and hang out. Food will be provided by CloudLock (http://cloudlock.com)!

Bring your own project or work on one of the suggested projects below. Everyone is welcome, all skill levels are encouraged. Tell your friends: http://meetu.ps/jCTYj

Staff from the Boston Python Workshop (http://openhatch.org/wiki/Boston_Python_Workshop) will be here to help beginning Python programmers with language basics and practice.

Audience: Everyone! All Python experience levels are welcome, and everything is self-paced.

When: 6:30pm - 9:30pm on Wednesday, September 5th.

Location: Microsoft NERD

One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142

Food: Pizza will be provided.

Things to bring: a wireless-enabled laptop and power cord

Need some project ideas? How about:

Learning Python

The official Python tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python: http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/ An introduction to Python through writing games: http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/ Learn Python the Hard Way: http://learnpythonthehardway.org (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/) Projects and competitions

Try some of our Intermediate Workshop projects (http://bit.ly/intermediate-python-projects). Contribute to an open-source project that uses Python. Developers from OpenHatch (http://openhatch.org/), Twisted (http://twistedmatrix.com/), and other projects are often here. If you contribute to an open source project that uses Python and want to help new contributors, let us know in a comment! Use Python to participate in space exploration:http://spacehack.org (http://spacehack.org/) Unleash your inner DJ with the Echo Nest (http://code.google.com/p/pyechonest/) and Echo Nest Remix (http://code.google.com/p/echo-nest-remix/) APIs Want to learn a Python web framework? Check out the Django tutorial: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/ (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/intro/tutorial01/)