Past meeting
Object Oriented Python: From the Basics all the way to Voodoo
(4 ratings)
Meeting Description
Organized by
- Noah Gift
Details
Meet at 7:30PM at GTRI Food Processing Technology building
Note: Quite a few us meet for dinner at 6PM before the meeting. For April we will be meeting at Six Feet Under, off of Howard Mill's Road. You can find directions here.
There was a special announcement made about this meeting on O'Reilly's website.
Object Oriented Python Theme
Summary: A hopefully exhaustive look at Object Oriented Python, lets hurt our brains until they are a gooey mess sitting on the floor next to us. A blowout of 10 minute lightening talks.
Main Presentation: Metaclasses, Jonathan LaCour http://cleverdevil.or...
Main Presentation: MRO, Drew Smathers:
Lightening Talk: Properties, Noah Gift:
Lightening Talk: Object Oriented Python For the Absolute Beginner, Brandon Craig Rhodes:
He will discuss why using objects instead of lists and dictionaries, can create more readable code.
How to use "Super"
How to use Descriptors: http://users.rcn.com/...
Mix-Ins
Multiple Inheritance
Metaclasses
Operator Overloading
Polymorphism
Information Hiding
Static Methods and Class Methods
Voodoo: Got Voodoo? Let's see it.
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Who Attended
It's estimated that 27 people attended.
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Noah Gift
"A great meeting, where everyone learned a lot."









Bryant O'Hara
"Very informative overview. Looking forward to the next meeting."