Comments on: PyCon 2007:

By: Chris Arndt

Chris Arndt — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:38:06 +0000

From my experience of teaching Python (not very extensive), it is not so important, that you cover too much ground but that you know the specifics of Python very well. For example, what does it mean exactly that variables in Python are only references? - in theory and in practice. Why don’t you need getter/setter methods in Python where you would need them in more static languages? How to use the power of default/keyword arguments and how they relate to method overloading in other languages. And so on…

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:46:23 +0000

I’m actually stepping up and drafting a Python 101 “Without the Bells and whistles” talk. We’ll see if they like it!

By: Douglas

Douglas — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:44:29 +0000

If you are not comfortable doing an intro to python talk, there are a number of related topics. Maybe an introduction to 5 of the standard library modules you find most useful?
There is a wiki for talk and panel ideas:
http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/TalkIdeas