President Barack Obama announced today that he has selected Mary Shaw, the Alan J. Perlis University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, as a recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation's highest honor for achievement in the field of technology, innovation and invention. Read more...October will be a quiet month for Coding Grace, so this is actually a Oct-Nov-in-one newsletter. I will still send an updated newsletter in November as there might be more events to be announced.
We ran our first Javascript workshop at Adverts.ie as well as Data Analysis with Python. There is a follow-up to the data analysis workshop kindly hosted by Insight Centre for Data Analytics (DCU) on Sat 1st Nov.
CultureTECH in Derry was welcoming as always and we ran a successful beginners Python workshop, you can read our write-up as well as other news here.
We are open to people hosting local chapters in their area, so do get in touch if you are interested.
If you have questions/suggestions or want me to mention something in the next newsletter, feel free to email me at info@codinggrace.com.
Upcoming Workshops
Data Analytics with Python Workshop Follow-up
Sat 1st November (11:00 - 16:00)
Venue: DCU, Glasnevin, Dublin 9
Level: Intermediate
This is a follow-up to our previous Data Analysis with Python (30th Aug) to use some of the Python libraries introduced in the initial session to explore real-world datasets.
We will have three mentors: Kevin O'Brien (instructor/mentor from last workshop) will be there as well as Mick Twomey and Suzanne Little (Insight). Bring your own laptop, some setup required, see events page.
Price: FREE | REGISTER
An evening learning AngularJS
Mon 10th November (18:30 - 21:00)
Venue: Adverts.ie (4th Floor), 19 / 22 Dame Street, Dublin 2
Level: Intermediate
Serena Fritsch will be our AngularJS mentor.
You will need to bring your own laptop and download AngularJS.
You must have knowledge of Javascript to attend this workshop.
Price: EUR10.00 | REGISTER
Workshops TBC
Updates will be posted to twitter, Facebook page and our google mailing list.
- Intermediate JS with JQuery - Autumn 2014
- Functional Programming Series - Autumn 2014
- Basics in LaTeX - November 2014
- More Python-related workshops - Autumn/Winter 2014
- Intermediate R - Winter 2014
- Interactive Storytelling with Twine - Winter 2014
- Interactive Storytelling with Fungus (Unity3D) - Winter 2014
- Processing - Winter 2014 / Spring 2015
There's a lot of events happening in October and November, I want to highlight a few from organisations I'm involved with:
- Python Ireland Pre-PyCon meetup @ Black Sheep - Wed 8th Oct
- PyCon Ireland (Conference) @ Ballsbridge Hotel - Sat Oct 11th - Sun 12th Oct
- Student: EUR40 | Normal: EUR70 | Corporate: EUR200
- PyCon Ireland (Sprints) @ Ballsbridge Hotel - Mon Oct 13th - Tue 14th Oct
- FREE
- PyLadies Dublin @ AOL - Tue 21st Oct
- GameCraft UnPlugged @ GaelCon, Ballsbridge Hotel - Sat 25th Oct
Moar events
If there's other events of interest you want listed here for other Coding Gracers, you can email events@codinggrace.com.
You can find the rest of the list on http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8612b25618972d14df5c6a1fb&id=51b894082e.
