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News & BALUG 2006-11-21: Marilyn Davis: "Why Python?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------
For our November 21st, 2006 BALUG meeting, we have: "Why Python?" Speaker: Marilyn Davis - Marilyn earned a Ph.D. in Radio Astronomy from UCSD and Master's degrees in Applied Physics from UCSD and Mathematics from Denver University. Computer programming and teaching captured her imagination and she has made significant contributions in scientific, statistical, operations research, test-development and groupware applications. She has been teaching C Programming at UCSC-Extension for 17 years, and Python for 3 years.
About the talk Marilyn will outline the characteristics of a *good* program and show how Python takes the sting out of achieving those characteristics. We will study some Python program snippets to demonstrate syntax, readability, the help facility, data structures, functional programming, regular expression handling, introspection, library access, portability and object-oriented programming.
Time permitting, we will look at the results of a few language comparison studies and look at some ways that Python is used in the industry.
http://www.deliberate.com/marilyn/ http://www.balug.org/
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No BALUG meeting in December this year. Note that BALUG will not be meeting in December of this year. We meet again, as usual, resuming on the 3rd Tuesday of the month on 2007-01-16.
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