90% of the Python you need to know
Matt Harrison – Insight Industries
This has been the first conference I have gone to since I have left the Davis School District. I was thinking just this year that I have really missed going to the good old UTOUG conferences. At the time I was at the District I started hating them. They were boring and at times a waste of my day(s).
But walking into the presentation my mouth dropped. There was so many people there with their laptops open and running. This is not what I was expecting.
My thoughts about Python is that it is a really nice. The presentation was put together well. I did learn some very basic stuff. I was impressed that Matt encouraged people to bring their laptops because in his presentation he had some areas where he gave some time to let people practice what he had just talked about.
One thing that I did find different in Python was that it does not use { (curly bracket) like I am used to in PHP. Instead it uses a : (colon). And there is no closing } instead it uses white space to know this.
Using white space like this was something that opened my eyes to something that I have come across in my work place now. Proper indenting, everyone would need to set up their editor to handle this.
Either way this was a very good presentation that I fully enjoyed and learned a few things as well.
