Python Essentials (functions & classes)

Tonight we'll focus on a pretty broad range of topics, all dealing with Python essentials. Since functions and classes are where you'll spend much of your time when writing Python code, we're going to spend most of this Meetup working with concepts around those.

Before coming, make sure to work through as much of the Codecademy Python track (https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python) as you can. It will help us use time more effectively as a group if everyone has already worked through the very basics on their own. Of course, we'll be happy to answer any questions you have about those basics at the Meetup. :)

This meetup will cover a lot of material, but the idea is to give everybody a chance to dive in where they feel comfortable. I'll present from an IPython notebook for the first hour, and then set everybody loose to start coding and programming at their level. I'll plan on sending out the IPython notebook that I'll present from about a week before (sometime around the 11th).

It will probably be helpful to have a Python environment set up on your computer for this meetup. Please feel free to shoot me questions or post them in the channel if you have any!