Hello Michael, Thanks to you, Pete and Tim for organising the talk. It was *great* to see so many people attend - a very pleasant surprise.
I think that for the audience a complete novices introduction might have been helpful. Maybe the next ones could be something like : * A brief introduction to Python syntax (a very basic intro) * A case study showing off a standard library module or extension module for doing something cool * A case study of Python in a particular industry or a particular application Three 20 minute sessions as the first one would work well. I promise that sometime when I am less snowed under I will volunteer to show off IronPython or Silverlight or something... The workshop style session afterwards didn't seem to happen. I think that the problem that Michael tried to set could be a good way of doing that. Set a small task and have several 'experts' on hand to help people go through it. Either chairs in the Thompson room - or carrying on afterwards in the auditorium (after a ten minute recess) might be a way to help this happen but I think people need some degree of organisation. Michael Foord http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/index.shtml Michael Grazebrook wrote: > Thanks to all who made it. We had a terrific turn-out: overbooked, but > fortunately just enough people didn't show to let everyone get in. We > were told to plan for 30 but got about 140. > > Tim did a superb presentation which both showcased the language nicely > and also was easy for beginners to follow. Pete's graphical programming > demo was impressive - the use of introspection to turn doc comments into > tool-tip hints was clever, as was the amount he could create for very > little code. > > About 3/4 of the audience were novices: we'd aimed it at them, but I > think pitched it too high even so, and not enough practical content. > Still, it seemed well received (or was everyone just too polite to say?) > > We certainly made our point that there's an interested audience. And I'm > optimistic that we'll get more slots to put events on. > > So I'd be grateful for feedback - what do we want out of future events? > What can we learn from this one? > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > > > _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
