From: Ted Roche Subject: PySIG, 25-May-2006: Bill Sconce and Python Generators Date: Monday, May 15, 2006 21:09:39 WHEN: May 25th, 7 PM WHERE: Amoskeag Business Incubator, Manchester (directions at bottom) WHO: Bill Sconce, Fearless PySIG Leader WHAT: Generators in Python The next meeting of the Greater New Hampshire Python & Milk/ Cookies SIG will be one week from this Thursday's fine MerriLUG meeting -- Thursday, May 25th, at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 7:00 P.M. (the usual place, the usual time). Bill Sconce will be the featured speaker, on "Why Python is Neat, Part IX -- Generators" Python has a wealth of features which are designed to make your life easier as a programmer, and to improve the chances that code which "looks right" to you IS right. The savings can be tremendous, especially when "right" code avoids pernicious but common problems such as picket-fence errors. This presentation discusses one of the powerful structures which every Python programmer uses daily: the humble "for" loop. There's a lot more going on in a "for" loop than meets the eye! We'll examine what Python does for you behind the scenes, and demystify how generators let you easily and transparently help Python help you -- that is, how to capitalize on built-in generalized structures to create nearly-bugproof specific structures which solve YOUR problems. Bill has been using high- and low-level programming languages since learning about Fortran as a TA. (We're not saying how long ago that was, but Fortran II was very new.) He claims to have achieved or faked proficiency in another 20 or so languages since then, and almost every week finds new evidence that Python is the best one so far. We'll also have our usual Q&A, and Python trivia. Because several people asked us about Python at LinuxWorld last month we'll include some material for newbies. (Please be thinking about that - should we have a newbies segment EVERY meeting?) There may also be cookies and milk again, depending... :) Directions: http://www.snhu.edu/amoskeagincubator/directions.html Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce