July Meetup

Schedule

• Introduction

• Using the Hypothesis package to solve the Fox-Hen-Grain problem (20 min)

• Write code for humans, not machines (20 min)

• Networking Tea Break sponsored by Soul Scientific (30 min)

• Building a Chatbot for Slack using Stanford NLP (20 min)

• Lightning Talks (20 min)

• Discussions (20 min)

Using the Hypothesis package to solve the Fox-Hen-Grain problem

Speaker: Suresh VV

Hypothesis is a Python package that helps in "property based testing".
You can use it test your software by finding edge cases in your code you wouldn’t have thought to look for.

One of the powerful features of Hypothesis is Stateful Testing - which helps in testing state machines.
We will see how we can use Hypothesis to solve a couple of popular puzzles.

Write code for humans, not machines.

Speaker: Naren (https://www.meetup.com/Chennaipy/members/190997105/)

Any average programmer can write code by sitting hours and hours, pushing themselves through the sleepless nights but what it takes to write a better readable software?.
Forget about the design patterns, I will be talking ground zero from naming variables to handling errors in your python code. At the end of my talk the audience should be able to read their own code after 6 months without uttering the words "why did I write like this?"

Building a Chatbot for Slack using Stanford NLP

Speaker: Prabakaran Kumaresshan (https://www.meetup.com/Chennaipy/members/213608230/)

We will build a custom Chatbot backend with Django (not using wit.ai (http://wit.ai/), api.ai (http://api.ai/), etc.) to respond to user queries using Stanford NLP to analyze and extract intent.