Hey Shane, The meeting is a way to ask a question until resolution. Being an introductory course, showing introspection, over coming fear, and explaining program flow seem to be the primary discussion topics. We also like to push out and show how Python can be used to access on-line services API.
-Eugene On Monday, 9 September 2013 21:12:54 UTC+1, Shane Carey wrote: > > Hi, > > Firstly, I think this is a great idea and a great way of learning from > each other. Just wondering how are these group meetups going to be > composed. Will it be effectively like a tutorial where you can bring your > problem to the meetup group and ask questions on how to solve that problem. > > Thanks > > On Friday, September 6, 2013 12:42:38 PM UTC+1, Eugene Eichelberger wrote: >> >> Your invited to join. We are a group of soon-to-be coders. We've signed >> up to this free on-line university course. We meet Wednesday nights to >> smooth over any issues and talk through the assignments. All the courses >> have down-loadable certificates. We've chosen this seven week course to do >> next: https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython It is an >> introduction to programming with Python. Python is fun and easy to learn >> especially with friends. It is used by most large Internet companies and >> there are jobs for those who can. >> >> *The first meeting for the new course will be 9 Oct.* >> >> To join us: >> >> 1. Sign up to the free course: >> https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython >> 2. Sign up to the free meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Coursera/Dublin-IE/ >> 3. Learn to code. >> >> >> There are a range of expertise in the group. Thus far, women have >> composed the majority of the participants. Occasionally, there have been >> pints after. We meet 6pm Wednesdays at Macro Community Resource >> Centrehttp://www.macrobuilding.ie. >> Address: 1 Green Street, Dublin 7. >> >> Feel free to forward. >> >> May your home always be too small to hold all your friends, >> >> >> -Eugene Eichelberger >> https://twitter.com/CoderDojoDublin >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
