Tech Talk Archives

Tech Talk Archives

Below you may find information about previous talks. Some have links to resources that you may find very useful.

• Social Media Processing with Python       false

  Speaker: Şirin Saygılı
  Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016
  Time: 18:30
  Place: BIM A4

  In this session we will – again – look at how Python can be used to develop a web based application. This time we will access external information from the social networking application Twitter™. Twitter provides a very useful API, which we will learn how to use to fetch and post content. If we have enough time, we hope to do a little processing of tweets as well.

  Recommended:

  In order to get the most fun out of this session, it will be very useful for you to come with your laptop and to have the following setup:

  • Installation of Python 3.4
  • 'requests' library for Python
    http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/install/#install
  • A Twitter access token via OAuth (https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/overview/application-owner-access-tokens)

Bio:

Şirin Saygılı is a graduate of Istanbul Technical University Computer Engineering Department. Galatasaray University. She is a co-founcer of Prisync that specializes on information retrieval for purposes on competitor price monitoring. She is an experienced Web developer and an avid open source supporter with the Pardus open source O/S being one of them. She is active in the Python community as well as teaching programming  efforts geared to break down the gender barriers, such as Kadin Yazilimci and Django Girls.

• Python  - From Zero to Hero    

Speaker: Çağıl Uluşahin Sönmez
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016
Time: 18:00
Place: BIM A4

Web programlama ile Python'a giriş

Bu atölyede sıfırdan başlayarak Python diline hızlı bir giriş yapacağız. Bir yandan Python dilini öğrenirken bir yandan da web programlamaya giriş yapmış olacağız. Atölyenin sonunda Python dilinin temellerini ve Python ile geliştirilmiş bir web sayfasının/projesinin bütün elemanlarını biliyor olacaksınız.

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Introduction to Web Programming with Python

In this hands-on session, you will learn about the fundamentals of web programming, with a quick introduction to Python. By the end of the session, you will have learned the basics of python and developed all the elements of a basic web page.

Who should attend:

Anyone interested in programming, Python, web programming, and developing software. No experience in Python or Web Programming are expected.