[sf-lug] BayPIGgies meeting Thursday November 13, 2008: NumPy and SciPy

[jim]

BayPIGgies meeting Thursday November 13, 2008: 
NumPy and SciPy 
By Fernando Perez 

NumPy and SciPy: how python is becoming the dominant high-level language
for scientific work, who's using it, what we do with it, what the key
projects are, where we're headed, what challenges we have, and where
others can contribute.


Tonight's Newbie Nugget is... 
DocTest by Wesley Chun 

Documentation and testing are traditionally two areas that 
programmers shy away from. With one simple change, namely doctest 
integration, you can get both in a simplistic manner and improve the 
usability of your code as well as get free testing. That is what makes 
doctest so cool! 


Location: Google Campus 
Building 40, the Seville room 
(check in at the lobby in bldg 43)


bayPIGgies meeting information: 
http://baypiggies.net/new/plone

* Please sign up in advance to have your google access badge ready: 
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BayPiggiesGoogleMeetings
(no later than close of business on Wednesday.) 


Agenda

..... 7:30 PM ...........................
General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, 
any first-minute announcements. 


..... 7:35 PM to 7:45 PM ................
Newbie Nugget: Doctest 
by Wesley Chun 
 

..... 7:45 PM to 8:45 PM ................
Talk 
by Whom 


..... 8:45 PM to 9:00 PM -- After The Talk ................
Mapping and Random Access

Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics 
the announcers are interested in. 

Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up 
individually on the announcements and other topics of 
interest.