Talks: Building Visual Novels in Python / Concurrency 101

Hello Pythonistas!

Come bring your dinner and join us at the Downtown Huntsville Library for two talks this month. We'll be featuring Joy Pinckard and (TBD) as our two speakers this month

Renpy Development by Joy Pinckard

An investigation of the Renpy game development tool for creating simple, fun visual novels with Python! This course will take your through the development of your first RenPy game.

Joy Pinckard is a Sr. Specialist Manufacturing engineer at Aerojet Rocketdyne. She has worked in defense for three years and previously worked at Amazon Games. She makes videogames for fun.

Concurrency 101 by Pat Viafore

Have you ever wondered how to get more done at once? How to get the most out of your processors? What the GIL is and why it is a nuisance? This talk will give an introductory talk to the concurrency (and parallelism) primitives in Python, including upcoming work and asynchronous programming.

Pat Viafore is a Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox and the organizer of HSV.py. He speaks at various conferences, has authored video courses, and is the author of Robust Python by O'Reilly. He enjoys cooking, board games, and being outside.

As always, we welcome speakers of all experience levels so if you have something you want to share with our awesome community, let us know!

* Note that we are not affiliated with the Huntsville Library in any way.