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2023-04-18

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/1bQ7VcW-gz1S9T-Ls4aWgZK54jyOUntQH/view?usp=sharing

2022-03-15

Async IO

Christopher Pappas and Ned Batchelder (Deactivated)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w_U9mFPRwq7DndQUv5RY3LSozFbE0z10rArfrPzXVJs/edit#

Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/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

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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

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