Learn how to visualize algorithms with LEDs, dodge bugs with MyPy, and more

On April May 9th, join ~150 devs at SF Python's presentation night to hear a few short talks and one more PyCon talks from local speakers :) Our generous sponsor Yelp will also provide pizza and beer for the evening.

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If you'd like to present a 5 mins Lightning talk or a 10-15 mins Short Talk at a future meetup, please submit your talk ideas here.

PROGRAM

Lightning talks

• Jardin, the friendly and lightweight ORM for Python, by Emmanuel Turlay
• Deploying SciKit Learn Models in Flask, by Ben Aaron
• Moving a Python Colossus at Pinterest, Slowly, by Jordan Adler

Short talk(~10 mins + Q&A)

Making the most out of Mypy by Phil Nachum

Mypy is great for avoiding bugs, but with tweaks to how we model our data, we can often produce more reliable and clearer code. The talk covers some of these techniques.

Bio of Phil Nachum

I'm a software engineer at Freenome, a biotech startup on a mission to cure cancer. I'm new to Python, but I'm a big fan of typed functional programming and bringing ideas from that world into Python.

Main talk (~30 mins + Q&A)

Visualizing Algorithms with Python and Programmable LEDs by Christopher Beacham / Lady Red

Recently, a new LED strip specification, APA102, has been released which allows these strips to be driven by a general purpose CPU instead of a dedicated microcontroller. This allows us the luxury of controlling them with Python!

I'll teach you about how to get the hardware, how to think about programming for lights and how to build anything from a psychedelic art installation to home lighting to an educational tool.

Programming with lights is awesome because you can SEE bugs with your eyes. I think the use of these LED's have great potential as a teaching tool because of the immediacy of the feedback.

LIVE hardware demos! See Quicksort in brilliant colors!

Bio of Christopher Beacham

I am a Senior Software Developer at Hipmunk. I've been programming in python for more than a decade. I'm also an artist and maker. I frequent the hackerspace Noisebridge in San Francisco, where I sew, paint, work on electronics projects.and teach a beginner level python class. I also go by the name Lady Red

AGENDA

6:00p - Check-in and mingle, with food provided by our generous sponsor Zenefits!

7:05p - Welcome

7:30p - Door close

7:10p - Announcements, lightning talks and main talk

8:15p - More mingling

9:30p - Hard stop

SF Python is run by volunteers aiming to foster the Python community in the Bay Area. Please consider making a donation to SF Python and saying a big thank you to Yelp for providing pizza, beer, and the venue for this Wednesday's meetup.

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