Schedule

Thursday (02 oct)
Time Ivory Auditorium Ultramarine Tutorials
08:30 - 09:15 Registration
09:15 - 09:30 Opening
09:30 - 10:30 Writing Python Code to Decide an Election
by Peter Lubell-Doughtie
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:45 The elephant in the web application
by Iwan Vosloo
IPython Notebook
by Tobie Nortje
Python in a business suit
by Timothy Solomon
11:45 - 12:30 Hand me the salt while I read my news
by Johann du Toit
Ipython as a tool for teaching and learning
by Laura Richter
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Building the Internet of Things with Raspberry Pi
by Neil Broers
Enabling Science with the Southern African Large Telescope with Python
by Steve Crawford
Pygame tutorial
by Neil Muller
14:15 - 15:00 Using Python in Blender
by Albert Nel
Large Scale Data Processing with Python and Apache Spark
by Nick Pentreath
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea
15:30 - 16:30 Lightning Talks
16:30 - 17:15 The Earth is not Flat (and other Heresies)
by Allison Randal
Friday (03 oct)
Time Ivory Auditorium Ultramarine Tutorials
08:30 - 09:00 Arrival & Coffee
09:00 - 09:45 What I learned about Python – and about Guido's time machine – by reading the python-ideas mailing list
by David Mertz
09:45 - 10:30 An introduction to regular expressions in Python
by Adrianna Pińska
Inspired by Lisp to get Ruby to talk Python
by Martin Pretorius
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10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:45 A journey through the eyes of a newbie female developer
by Ridhwana Khan
Building log cabins
by JP Viljoen
Introduction to building web applications with Reahl
by Iwan Vosloo
11:45 - 12:30 Python in Debian & Ubuntu
by Stefano Rivera
Monkeying around with Twisted
by Richard Spiers
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Python in the context of a Start-up: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
by Adam Jorgensen
How Python helps writing documentation less painful
by Nickolas Grigoriadis
Deploying to the Google Cloud with a grain of salt
by Johann du Toit
14:15 - 15:00 Challenges and Prospects of the Python African Computational Science and Engineering Tour Project
by Godfrey Akpojotor
Practical testing
by Jeremy Thurgood
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea
15:30 - 16:15 Reaching Beyond the Web
by Vinod Kurup
How I Became A Cookie Monster
by Michael Joseph
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16:15 - 17:00 Python at the Observatory - Old telescopes, new instruments
by Carel van Gend
17:00 - 17:30 Closing
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner at Ciao Baby Cucina
Saturday (04 oct)
Time JoziHub
09:00 - 23:59 Sprints
Sunday (05 oct)
Time JoziHub
09:00 - 23:59 Sprints


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