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We have put together a handy guide to presenting at PSG: How to PSG (Python Study Group) . If you are interested in presenting, please reach out to Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) in Slack.

Schedule:

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Some links are still in the process of being migrated as part of the Google docs migration

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Most recent event should be at the top of the table.

Date

Topic

Presenter

Links

20212023-1104-0918

XBlocks

Nathan Sprenkle

video: DRF musings

Alexander Dusenbery

https://github.com/iloveagent57/drf-best-practices/blob/aed/yells-at-cloud/docs/drf-jazz-20230418.md

2022-04-05

Testing roundtable

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aEpBHqQdFbSS4RdwHw1bQ7VcW-gz1S9T-DWrgbzKOgbF7LLs4aWgZK54jyOUntQH/view?usp=sharingExtra XBlock thoughts (+ regrets):

2022-03-15

Async IO

Christopher Pappas and Ned Batchelder (Deactivated)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/

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  • https://medium.com/@dormsbee/xblock-lessons-costly-conveniences-38ff8e7de6f1

  • https://engineering.edx.org/xblock-lessons-plugin-performance-and-grading-2f85a1d6fb2a

    1WqQKWEyoIaFkF6sJ2MeAjHpxBIQ9HWm2/view?usp=sharing

    2022-02-22

    Why Your Mocks Don’t Work

    Ned Batchelder (Deactivated) Tim McCormack

    Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZtGSewbOM8FUyr07tWhBhiU2PGIdDyWo/view?usp=sharing

    2022-02-01

    Particularly Clueless Presenter: ASGI and WSGI

    Rebecca Graber (Deactivated)

    Video: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/13K7rTX7MUDKmRLNzrMu4KeASq8Q-7rGQ

    Slides/notes: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XsSqR4FnaNrLlgXbX3gAYVlaR6qy7dWHZLpxOa4ufrA/edit?usp=sharing

    2022-01-11

    The Django 3.2 Upgrade: Automation, Coordination, and Highlights

    Jeremy Bowman (Deactivated)

    Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yc91jmPn3t-R5nRlkrU3Fv7JWrbmhaB6/view?usp=sharing

    Django 3.2 upgrade project page: Django 3.2 Upgrade

    Original DjangoCon presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny-3AaNHbbs

    2021-11-09

    XBlocks

    Nathan Sprenkle

    video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aEpBHqQdFbSS4RdwHw-DWrgbzKOgbF7L/view?usp=sharing

    On the role of XBlocks going forward:

    Extra XBlock thoughts (+ regrets):

    2021-10-19

    Well That’s Interesting: edX’s Favorite Python Gotchas

    Many!

    video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RqFemzBYf6-qZP6V_UXbLWbF20PF77D1/view?usp=sharing

    Notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1y9rWR4OEvAzfbf_NuJSUTCUkuBdxMYqA?usp=sharing

    2021-09-28

    When To Use FP in Python

    Kevin Afable (Deactivated)

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GoHIAvrD-jE7tMbQS79VBAK8dXVCS1Hp/view?usp=sharing

    2021-09-07

    N+1

    Ken Clary (Deactivated)

    https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DQTiV77ria8elHcFPbicRG0x-Xtt2C9XrG-XdQzBSgY/edit

    2021-07-06

    Group code review

    Feanil Patel

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n-Jbzd0bdl7uh3HoPtcWF2hRc4m1rSvE/view?usp=sharing

    2021-06-15

    Generators

    Diane Kaplan (Deactivated)

    recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17DCNnHZpfl25TbCYS1FShuoe0BHF4QQ3/view?usp=sharing

    2021-05-25

    Persistent Celery Task Results

    Alexander Dusenbery

    https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/~adusenbery/blog/2021/03/16/2499870990/Fun+with+Celery+Task+Results#Links-to-things (link to demo PR inside)

    2021-04-13

    Django Admin

    Dave Ormsbee

    recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15M4Mn8CMtpAS-ZeLXo-Bp8gnErF4GIc2/view?usp=sharing

    2021-03-23

    Ask me (ned) anything!

    Ned Batchelder (Deactivated)

    https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/2446590287/Python+AMA+6https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aM31KERPxr8J13ZdkWsb1-yEl4Wz-80u/view?usp=sharing

    2021-03-02

    Debugging tricky problems

    Feanil Patel Tim McCormack

    recording

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/115hCwSFyekQfG5P1ws5BsMdyRf1IRWhpos4GSGcUf50/edit

    2021-02-09

    HACKATHON!!!

    2021-01-19

    Dunder Methods

    Christopher Pappas

    recording

    ...

    Date

    Topic

    Presenter

    Links

    DATE TBD

    Async/Await

    Christopher Pappas


    DATE TBD

    Is Python pass-by-value or pass-by-reference

    Nathan Sprenkle


    DATE TBD

    How XBlocks work in the context of edX platform

    Nathan Sprenkle


    DATE TBD (but not soon, busy ramping up with devops/SRE)

    Context Managers

    Christopher Pappas


    DATE TBD

    pip-tools: Demystifying "make upgrade"

    Kyle McCormick


    DATE TBD

    Creating public APIs on edx-platform

    Jesper Hodge

    Older Study Group Sessions

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    Date

    Topic

    Presenter

    Links

    3/15/18

    Generators



    4/3/18

    Generator Expressions



    4/17/18

    Multiple Inheritance



    5/1/18

    Decorators



    5/22/18

    Special Methods



    6/12/18

    Itertools



    6/26/18

    Py 2 vs. Py 3



    7/10/18

    Inheritance



    7/31/18

    Assignment



    8/14/18

    Exceptions



    8/28/18

    Scoping

    Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated)

    https://github.com/BessieSteinberg/py_study_group/tree/master/scoping

    9/11/18

    Mocking

    Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated)


    9/25/18

    Cancelled due to Hackathon



    10/9/18

    Callables: a Smorgasbord

    Ben Holt (Deactivated)

    https://github.com/inventhouse/tutorials/tree/master/PySG-Callables

    10/23/18

    More Fun with Callables!

    Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated)

    https://github.com/BessieSteinberg/py_study_group/tree/master/callables

    11/6/18

    Decorators

    Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated)


    11/20/18

    Context Managers

    Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated)


    12/4/18

    Python 3

    Troy Sankey


    12/18/18

    Iterators and Iterables

    Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated)


    1/1/19

    Cancelled due to Work Holiday



    1/15/19

    Fun with import

    Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated)


    1/29/19

    Cancelled due to Hackathon



    2/12/19

    Comprehensions

    Ben Holt (Deactivated)

    Postponed due to winter storm - get home safely!

    2/26/19

    Comprehensions

    Ben Holt (Deactivated)

    Ben sick today, sorry! 😞

    2019-03-12

    Write a unit test from scratch

    Alexander Dusenbery

    Unit Testing in edx-platform

    2019-03-26

    Cancelled due to Open edX Conference



    2019-04-09

    Comprehensions

    Ben Holt (Deactivated)

    Notes and examples

    2019-04-23

    Factories (Fuzzy text and stuff)

    Rickie Reilly (Deactivated)


    2019-05-07




    2019-05-21

    Debugging, pdb, finding stuff

    Alexander Dusenbery


    2019-06-06

    Assignment Rerun

    Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated)


    2019-06-18

    Factories (Fuzzy text and stuff)

    Rickie Reilly (Deactivated)


    2019-07-02

    Regular Expressions

    Christopher Pappas


    2019-07-16

    DRYer testing (with mixins, ddt, etc.)

    Kyle McCormick

    https://github.com/kdmccormick/edx-python-study-group

    2019-07-30

    Decorators

    Jinder Singh (Deactivated)


    2019-08-13

    Inheritance

    Bessie Steinberg (Deactivated)


    2019-08-27

    Pickling

    Rebecca Graber (Deactivated)


    2019-09-10

    Which is faster?

    Feanil Patel


    2019-09-24

    Efficient Queries with the Django ORM

    Calen Pennington (Deactivated)


    2019-10-08

    Virtual Env Wrappers

    Christopher Pappas


    2019-10-22

    CLI tools

    Rebecca Graber (Deactivated)

    Slides

    2019-11-05

    Potpourri

    Alexander Dusenbery


    2019-11-19

    Objects

    Kyle McCormick


    2019-12-03

    Mocking

    Christopher Pappas


    2019-12-17

    Ask me (Ned) anything!

    Ned Batchelder (Deactivated)


    2019-12-31

    NEW YEARS EVE



    2020-1-14

    Magnets Decorators, how do they work??

    Ben Holt (Deactivated)

    https://github.com/inventhouse/tutorials/blob/master/PySG-Decorators/Decorators.ipynb

    2020-1-28

    Scope (and Closures)

    Christopher Pappas


    2020-2-11

    CANCELLED: HACKATHON



    2020-2-25

    Parse time vs run time evaluation

    Rebecca Graber (Deactivated)


    2020-3-10

    Strings underneath the hood

    Christopher Pappas


    2020-3-31

    Type Hints

    Jinder Singh (Deactivated)


    2020-4-21

    Django Shell and observing DB stuff

    Christopher Pappas


    2020-5-12

    Fooling Algolia With Delegators: A Case Study

    Rebecca Graber (Deactivated)

    https://tinyurl.com/y77osnqd

    2020-06-01

    String formatting

    Juliana Kang

    https://github.com/julianajlk/study/blob/master/PSG_formatstring.ipynb

    2020-06-23

    Python Governance

    Jinder Singh (Deactivated)


    2020-07-14

    Django at 20,000 Feet

    Nathan Sprenkle

    Slides,

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nNptxD164HRsd4OFl7y1KohQekakeVMP/view?usp=sharing

    2020-08-03

    Decorators

    Emma Green (Deactivated)

    https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fm99xIpQVU2u4AMtimazH8AXyfHMjwkn0Jvy-acvYAo/edit?usp=sharing

    2020-08-25

    Role-based access control, JWTs, and how to live your best life in 2020 (w.r.t. to Django view AuthN/Z).

    Alexander Dusenbery

    https://github.com/edx/edx-rbac

    https://github.com/iloveagent57/edx_rbac_demo demonstrates how to make use of edx-rbac in a toy IDA that can get a JWT from the devstack LMS.

    2020-09-15

    Decorators part 2

    Emma Green (Deactivated)

    zoom_0.mp4https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nLdb6dZO6JRQTG49s82_aAIqtVgZlK9r_0XiAt-SsdE/edit?usp=sharing

    2020-10-06

    "What does that do?" – Interesting Python snippets from edX repositories

    Kyle McCormick

    recording

    2020-10-27

    Closures (and more!)

    Tim McCormack

    Jupyter notebook dump: https://gist.github.com/timmc-edx/adb53ef9409233fcb3573b5e1e2c1b1c
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k2qsiiKuSqSocM8u0Eh6SwGw3MP6TrkX/view?usp=sharing

    2020-11-17

    Context Managers

    Rebecca Graber (Deactivated)

    Jupyter notebook:

    View file
    namePSG.ipynb

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B8z1XJofd6PRqhCI011Q6CLxcQHNHxOM/view?usp=sharing

    2020-12-08

    Multithreading

    Diane Kaplan (Deactivated)

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UCX-8h8Ob64BQcjkLf1GWysx7IPtJNA5/view?usp=sharing

    ...