PythonWA Meetup March

Welcome to our March meeting! We will be meeting in the Town Hall at Spacecubed. Our seating capacity is 80, and we currently do not have a waitlist, however, please update your rsvp if you will not be able to attend.

So You Think You Know Python?
by Jordan Duabe

Diving into some of Python's easter eggs, oddities, and other interesting bits. Plus answers to the following questions (and more):

- Is midnight falsy?
- Why does ~True equal -2?
- What is the hash of infinity?
- How many references to xkcd webcomics are in the standard library?
- Why can't raw strings end with an odd number of backslashes?

Jordan is a software engineer with years of industry experience building web and mobile applications. His interests include building custom mechanical keyboards, playing video games, and hiking. He also dabbles in GIS (Geographic Information Systems), linguistics, and music theory.

Teaching Tech Things To Non Tech People
by Sabrina Seaver

Sooner or later, you’ll need to explain a technical concept to someone who doesn’t speak “tech.” It might be a junior developer, a stakeholder, a client, or a friend who’s just getting started, or maybe even me.

As Perth recruiter Douglas Robertson puts it, “You are hired to your level of communication.” Knowing something isn’t the same as being able to teach it.

In this ten minute talk, I’ll share practical steps to make technical ideas stick: how to engage your learner, connect new concepts to what they already know, get them doing instead of just watching, and help them when they get stuck — all without overwhelming or confusing them.

Sabrina is a former teacher turned data analyst. She enjoys gardening and riding her bike.

A big thanks to our
Food sponsor: Horizon Digital
Venue sponsor: Spacecubed
Hosting sponsor:Ben Fitzhardinge