Hacker Dojo Python Group

About

Hacker Dojo is a collaborative hackerspace in Silicon Valley where tech enthusiasts gather to build, experiment and improve. The Hacker Dojo Python Group is a group of people interested in learning more about developing in the Python programming language.

We meet every Tuesday night at 6:30 at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, CA. Our discussions usually start with a specific topic such as a programming technique, Python language features, or a new module or library. Some nights are good for beginners just learning Python and some get pretty advanced. We usually follow the threads of our conversation off into whatever questions or tangents interest the group that night. The discussions are usually hosted by me, Peter Theobald or by one of our regular members.

Between meetings, come chat about your Python questions in the Python channel in the Hacker Dojo Discord. We announce our meetings on the Hacker Dojo Meetup page.

The meetings are oriented around in-person conversations gathered together at the Hacker Dojo, but we do usually stream the meetings in the Hacker Dojo Discord ‘Dojo Voicebox’ channel, although remote is not ideal because it can be hard to catch everyone’s comments and it is harder to ask questions.

Calendar of past meeting topics:

2024-07-02 Hosted by John H: Geocoding, streamlit and more
2024-06-25 speed shootout: CPU bound - memoize, dict>binarytree>list, profiling, cpython/numpy/pypy/numba/cython/codon
2024-06-18 hosted by John H: using Git with Github; Visualization library Seaborn used to graph last week’s speed shootout results.
2024-06-11 speed shootout: IO bound - sequential, async, multi-threading, multi-processing
2024-06-04 HTMX for websites
2024-05-28 Web Scraping Pt.2 - Selenium, XPath
2024-05-21 Web Scraping Pt.1 - Requests, Beautiful Soup, Mechanical Soup, HTML, DOM, XPath
2024-05-14 command line programs (argument parsing, graphic interfaces, terminal interfaces) argparse, gooey,
2024-05-07 Hosted by Kevin V: git
2024-04-30 concurrency 4: Multiprocessing
2024-04-23 PyTest
2024-04-16 Concurrency 3: Multi-threading
2024-04-09 file operations
2024-04-02 All about strings
2024-03-26 Python development best-practices
2024-03-19 hosted by Jessica: bioinformatics, machine learning , numpy, pandas, and scikit-learn
2024-03-12 hosted by John H: setting up a Python environment with Conda, database from IMDB and processed it with Pandas and SQLAlchemy
2024-03-08 classes and objects
2024-02-27 misc
2024-02-20 Python packages
2024-02-13 concurrency 2: Starting, controlling, interactive with and stopping sub-processes from Python
2024-02-06 “intro to Python data structures - How are they different than Java,Javascript, C++ etc”; Pip, Poetry,
2024-01-30 NICEGui instant web sites
2024-01-23 SQL Alchemy
2024-01-16 SQL databases (SQLite), replit-DB (document db)
2024-01-09 Iterables, List Comprehensions, Generators; Python modules, packages; classes with custom operators (dunder add)
2024-01-02 Lambdas (anonymous functions), tk GUI
2023-12-19 misc
2023-12-12 misc
2023-12-05 Concurrency 1: Async
2023-11-28 LeetCode style problems
2023-11-14 functional programming and functools
2023-11-07 misc
2023-10-24 misc
2023-10-17 Recursion. Regex.
2023-10-10 Decorators
2023-10-03 Sudoku Solver - Javascript frontend
2023-09-26 Sudoku Solver pt. 2 - flask REST API backend server
2023-09-19 Sudoku solver, solving grid algorithm
2023-09-12 Regex
2023-09-05 Leetcode problems, setting up Python environment, jupyter Notebooks
2023-08-29 Loading CSV, Excel, LeetCode problem
2023-08-22 LeetCode problem ‘Max Pair Sum in an Array’, Python type hinting
2023-08-15 misc
2023-08-08 data classes named tuples classes
2023-08-02 requests, using Reddit API, JSON encoding decoding
2023-07-26 Data Types: functions vs generators, list comprehensions and generator comprehensions, some other data types such as DefaultDicts, stacks, deques, etc, when to use tuples, dicts, namedTuples, dataclasses or classes
2023-07-19 misc
2023-07-05 misc