PyCon2007/Feedback/TutorialIdeas

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Feedback from PyCon 2007

Answers to the question “What tutorial topics would you like to see in the future?” on the PyCon 2007 tutorial feedback forms (duplicates removed, edited):

  • Advanced Python: language features, techniques

  • Advanced XML

  • Audio and Python

  • cTypes (http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/)

  • CPython (Intro to Python core development for those who wish to start contributing; Python Internals: how to modify Python; walk through Python source code)

  • Django: more hands-on. How to do a non-trivial app, rather than internals.

  • Eggs (Creating setuptools installs)

  • Embedded Python

  • Faster Python Programs

  • Flash/flex widgets in Python

  • Future of Python

  • GUI

  • IronPython

  • Jython - the complete guide

  • Kamaelia (http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/Home)

  • LDAP integration

  • Language tips/tricks by a language lawyer

  • Mac and Python

  • Metaprogramming (Metaclasses & descriptors)

  • Newforms: tips & tricks, real-world examples, etc.

  • NumPy

  • Object-oriented approach for procedural programmers

  • Plone

  • Profiling tools (i.e. finding the actual bottlenecks)

  • PyPy

  • Pyrex or other C wrappers

  • Pyro

  • Python for sysadmins (idioms, not syntax)

  • Python tutorial part III in B2B

  • Pythonic patterns

  • ReStructuredText + Docutils

  • SQLAlchemy (http://www.sqlalchemy.org/)

  • SWIG & Python tutorial

  • Scientific visualization topics: specifically SciPy, matplotlib

  • Signal Processing

  • Standard Library tour

  • Styles of Programming

  • Testing (How to use Python tools to test non-Python code; TDD [test-driven development])

  • Tools that make up packages like Django and Turbogears, e.g. CherryPy, templates, Kid, etc.

  • TurboGears

  • Twisted (& nevow)

  • Web appl database access with a simple application

  • Win32 Python (COM, MSOffice, ActiveDir interaction, etc.)

  • wxPython

  • Zope, Zope 3/Five

Also see the general tutorial feedback info.

Other Ideas

These ideas are from other sources, not from the feedback forms:

  • Creating Command Line Tools in Python

  • Using Cheese Shop to Share Modules

  • Python 3000 Idioms (not migrating to P3K, how should our thinking change). This may be more suited to a presentation than a tutorial.

  • Intermediate Python (Iterators, Decorators, other various topics).

  • YAML