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Python Study Group

Python Study Group

What is it?

The Python Study Group is an opportunity to learn, teach and discuss Python with your fellow edXers! Meetings occur once every three weeks and are listed on the engineering calendar.

How does it work?

Usually, a single presenter will put together a talk on a topic of their choosing. It can be anything related to python, including particular libraries or edX-specific patterns and usages. Sometimes we vary the format with things like

  • Group code reviews

  • Helping someone with a personal project

  • Roundtable

  • AMAs with some of our experts

We are also actively looking to expand the different types of study group meetings, so if you have an idea please ping the group runner (currently @Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) ) on slack.

Who can present?

Newbies, experts, and everyone in between. We especially encourage folks who are newer to python to present, as there is no better way to learn a topic than to teach others. We have also had presentations of the form ‘please help me with this thing I don’t understand,' where one person picked the brain of the assembly on a topic they were struggling with.

Tell me more about presenting

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:

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

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

Date

Topic

Presenter

Links

Date

Topic

Presenter

Links

2023-04-18

DRF musings

@Alexander Dusenbery

drf-best-practices/docs/drf-jazz-20230418.md at aed/yells-at-cloud · iloveagent57/drf-best-practices

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 Upgradearchived

Original DjangoCon presentation Jeremy Bowman - Herding Ponies: Coordinating and Automating Django Upgrades Across 100+ Repositories

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 (Deactivated)

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 (Deactivated)

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 (Deactivated) @Tim McCormack

recording

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

2021-02-09

HACKATHON!!!

 

 

2021-01-19

Dunder Methods

@Christopher Pappas

recording

Whe

 

Potential Topics

Date

Topic

Presenter

Links

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 (Deactivated)



DATE TBD

Creating public APIs on edx-platform

@Jesper Hodge

 

Older Study Group Sessions

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