[ddj] self-education python study group anyone?

[Lorenz Matzat]

Hi Andreas, Momoko and all,

thanx for the fast feedback. Maybe we wait until next week; after that
we can slowly outline a curriculum in an etherpad etc.

Best

Lorenz

Am 22.09.11 16:00, schrieb Andreas Trawoeger:
> Hi Lorenz!
> 
> I would actually love to contribute to that course. I did some pretty
> advanced stuff in Python to clean up and combine statistic and
> geospatial data published by the cities of Vienna [0] and Berlin [1].
> 
> With people now being interested in databases and Python it would be a
> pleasure for me to contribute on a topic like Python database
> programming or howto properly handle spatial data in Python.
> 
> cu andreas
> 
> 
> [0] http://www.kartenwerkstatt.at/#!/map/austria-wien-regdistrict-osm-imposm-bright-01
> [1] http://www.kartenwerkstatt.at/#!/map/germany-berlin-regdistrict-osm-imposm-bright-01
> 
> 
> 2011/9/22 Lorenz Matzat <matzat at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> since everyone here seems to be into learning about databases, I wonder
>> if somebody is interested in learning Python in a self-organized way, too?
>>
>> What is the plan? We meet once a week online in the evening to study
>> together.
>>
>> The Peer-to-Peer-University platform will be used for self-education
>> Python course starting on November 1st, 2011.
>>
>> The course is self-organized and thus free. But its very important you
>> are motivated to learn together with others and be an engaging member of
>> the group.
>>
>> Every week we decide on how much exercices out of the course book
>> "Learning Python the hard way"  we are going to work on the coming week.
>> ( http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ The html-version of the book is for
>> free; pdf/ePub avaible for 3 USD.)
>>
>> Sign-up - press “Participate” on the left of the screen.
>> http://p2pu.org/en/groups/python-for-journalists-20112012/content/start-1st-of-november/
>>
>> Read this about Why Journalists Should Learn Computer Programming
>> http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/06/why-journalists-should-learn-computer-programming153.html
>>
>> This is about how to install Python on your computer.
>> http://diveintopython.org/installing_python/
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Lorenz
>>
>>
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