Video from this talk is now available to view or download, courtesy of Google Video.
Talk Details:
- Speaker: Christopher Neugebauer
- Skill Level: Any, Python knowledge desirable but not necessary
In October 2008, two new releases of Python will be unleashed on a mostly-suspecting public: Python 2.6, a continuation of the current Python series, and 3.0 (also known as Python3000), the release in which the Python Developers break your code, confuse your development processes, cause global chaos, destruction, and other exaggerated, not-generally-nice things.
In this talk, I’ll quickly cover some advanced Python techniques in the hope of making the rest of the talk more bearable; I’ll then discuss new additions to Python appearing in 2.6 and 3.0, the backwards-incompatible changes introduced in 3.0, and overview of the process of porting code from Python 2.6 to 3.x. The talk will be aimed at people who don’t necessarily have experience in Python, with a focus on learning Python in a world with parallel releases.
Our second tech talk for semester 2, 2008 on Strategy Gaming Concepts, presented by Alex Berry is now available online.
The talk was certainly one of our best-attended so far, but if you missed it, it’s well worth checking out. Aplogies for the low video quality, and the audio is slightly lacking in certain places, but it’s otherwise reasonably good.
Video is available for online streaming via Google Video: you can download the video for watching offline (or on your iPod) from the page.
–Chris
TUCS Had our Semester 2 launch today, including a barbecue and two short tech talks.
The two talks given by Chris are now available to view or download on Google Video:
Unfortunately, Jon did not record his presentation on Pretty Things for the Lazy, but slides will be available in the near future.
As part of our launch weekend, TUCS held its first tech talk, which, incidentally was delivered by me. The topic was Introductory Python.
I recorded the talk, with a screen dump, which is now available to view in your browser, thanks to Google Video, the video follow at the bottom of this post. You can also download the video.
Also available is a Flickr Stream from the talk.
