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Topic: Getting started with Python
When: Saturday, June 18, 2011 1:00 PM

Where: Tom Bradley Youth and Family Center
5213 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019
213-915-4402

By Solomon Chang

Python is an interpreted (as opposed to compiled) language created by Guido Van Rossum. Unlike most modern scripting languages, which can trace their heritage to C, Python has a number of unorthodox syntax idiosyncrasies, such as lines of code being terminated by newline characters (most of us are used to semicolons) and discrete blocks of code defined by indentation (most of us are used to putting them in curly braces). Despite these odd-seeming rules, Python is remarkably easy to learn, and flexible enough to accommodate anything between a quick and dirty service script to full blown object oriented projects.

This tutorial will focus on getting started with Python, with all the basics of any scripting language: I/O, loops, control structures. Any remaining time after that will be used for showing you how to do those things most people use a scripting language for: connecting to databases, sending out emails, requesting webpages, and other network operations.
Solomon is a fully certified MySQL DBA and former president of LAMPSIG. He uses Python in building a scalable storage engine for his current company. He spends too much time chasing after the latest geek toys.



Show up or RSVP at:

http://www.meetup.com/LAMPsig/events/21697631/


See you there,

Jorge Garifuna
LAMPsig President
Tel: 213-915-4402