Description
Lightning Talks 2017-05-20 Evening
| Start | Speakers | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 0:30 | Meredydd Luff | Compiling blocking Python to non-blocking JS - Wrote client side JS in Python before yield or await statements, using Skulpt transpiler. |
| 5:45 | Efron Licht | Elements of Style - Write understandable code; write a story. Shorter functions. |
| 11:45 | Maria Mckinley | Refactoring Lengthy Bits of Code - Towards understanding the steps to refactoring: a test, prose, outline, make functions and tests. |
| 15:45 | Erik Rose | Getting Things Unguilty - Using "getting things done" as a one slide flowchart. |
| 21:45 | Meggie Mahnken | Using _slots_ for More Opinionated Objects - __slots__ when you don't want to allow attributes; sometimes efficient. |
| 26:00 | Travis | Crowd Computing - fun controlling crowds with Python |
| 29:15 | Allen Downey | Physical Modeling in Python - Making an interactive book to improve the undergrad engineering student retention by putting in real world early. |
| 33:00 | Luceneo | Time is Money - Communicating Professor Antonio Candido's alternative view to this aphorism. |
| 35:45 | Cynthia Lynn | PyCon, a High Schooler's Perspective - A 15 year-old programmer. Didn't come for a job; felt accepted and welcome. |
| 41:45 | David Bieber | Python Fire, comand line interfaces - A single line or decorators added to functions or classes to make CLIs; great workflow. |
| 47:15 | Pitches for different conferences - One minute each for Python conferences around the world. | |