Today is our last meeting of the semester. PUG will take a pause during the summer, only to come back full of energy in the Fall.

It is also the last meeting that I, Rafa, will be leading PUG. It was really a privilege to work and learn with you all in the past three years, and I would like to celebrate this moment with you folks.

So,…[Read more]

Please notice a change in our calendar. Due to Spring Break, we will be meeting this Friday (9th) and every other Friday after that: April 9th, April 23rd, May 7hth, May 21th

Looking forward to seeing you all!

Topic: PUG – Python Users Group
Time: Apr 9th, 2021 03:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Topic: PUG – Python Users Group
Time: Mar 19, 2021 03:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/87314431688?pwd=Nk9ERHJML1hlaDlSNVoxRXRqWW9KUT09

Meeting ID: 873 1443 1688
Passcode: 958383

So if you need any help, feel free to reach me. See ya!

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Date: March 5, 2021 3:30 pm EST

Rafa
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From: Rafael Davis Portela <rdavisportela@gradcenter.cuny.edu>
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We’ll start a meeting in 10 minutes, hope you can join us. The meeting link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89389194622
Join our Cloud HD Video…[Read more]

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Meeting ID: 893 8919 4622

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Topic: PUG — Python Users’ Group
Every 2 weeks on Fri, until Dec 11, 2020, 6 occurrence(s)

Oct 2, 2020 03:30 PM
Oct 16, 2020 03:30 PM
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How PUG is working this Fall

We’ve started our Fall meetings of the Python Users’ Group (PUG). We meet every other Friday at 3:30pm, in the following dates (Oct 2nd, Oct 16th, Oct 30th, Nov 13th, Nov 20th, Dec 4th).

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89389194622
Meeting ID: 893 8919 4622

One of our main goals this semester will…[Read more]

See you soon!

Try this link:
https://join.slack.com/t/pug-world/shared_invite/zt-horj6pol-LpaGx5ssBgHBATnbTqes1Q

Let me know if it worked.

Hey folks,

I’m glad to announce that the PUG meetings will be back starting this Friday (Oct 2nd), at 3:30pm.

If you are new to Python or feeling rusty, this is a great moment to (re)join. For this Fall, we are planning to work together with mini-workshops, starting with Introductory Python and moving later to specific libraries. We will…[Read more]

First of all, I hope you are all safe and well. To my fellow international students, my sympathies for all we went through in the past days. The Digital Fellows are there for you in any way we can.

Now about PUG: the attendance was very low in the past two meetings. I want to say that we totally get it.
This has been a long and tough…[Read more]

Looking forward to see you soon. In today’s meeting, we will play around with for loops and whatever else you are working.

Please click here to participate.

See you soon,

Rafa

In today’s meeting, we will play around with for loops and whatever else you are working.

Please click here to participate. This is our Slack, in case you haven’t joined us. See you soon,

Rafa

Looking forward to seeing you soon. In today’s meeting, we will play around with functions and methods for lists. We can also work in whatever you bring.

Please click here to participate. Also, if you haven’t yet joined us on our Slack, make sure to do it. See you soon,

Rafa

Looking forward to seeing you soon. In today’s meeting, we will have a mini-workshop on Flask. To participate, please click here 

Also, make sure to join us on our Slack. See you soon,

Rafa

In the last meeting we discussed creating a Slack group for PUG, as a space to chat about Python things, ask questions, cry for help, and share the occasional meme.

To join us there, please click on this link.

This Friday (15th) at 3:30pm, Steve will teach us a mini-workshop about Flask. Flask is a lightweight web application…[Read more]

We will be meeting again tomorrow (Friday, May 1st, <span class=”atwho-query”>@</span> 3:30pm) to do Python things together! The meeting will be on Webex, just click here.

This week, we will work on exercises from Learn Python 3 the Hard Way, so please bring your questions, comments or ideas. We will experiment coding together…[Read more]

Thank you so much for coming. Here is the link for the file of today’s mini workshop.

See you in two weeks. Reach me if you need help.

Best,
Rafa

I was just informed that unfortunately not everyone has access to Microsoft Teams. Staff and faculty were not able to create their accounts. Therefore, we won’t be able to use it for our meetings. Sorry for those who had already joined the MS Teams group.

As I mentioned in the last message, it will take some experimenting until…[Read more]

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Date: April 17, 2020 3:30 pm EDT

Hope you and your family are all safe and well.
Thanks for answering the survey and for showing interest in doing Python things together.

We will be meeting every other Friday, from 3:30pm to 5:00pm. We will start this week, on April 17h, with a mini-workshop on creating your own functions and modules. You can check for future…[Read more]

I hope you’re all doing fine, all things considered.

We are planning to go back to do activities in the Python User’s Group in some online form (most likely Zoom, but we can discuss alternatives). Before the break, we were working on the exercises from Learn Python the Hard way, everyone in their own pace. We can go back to…[Read more]

As you can imagine, in-person PUG meetings were cancelled. Right now, we Digital Fellows are trying to focus on helping people transition their classes to online formats.

(To sign up for a consultation, fill this form. For more resources and to know how the Digital Initiatives will proceed in the upcoming weeks, click here. We also…[Read more]

Everyone is working on their own pace. If you were able to set up your computer, you can start from the beginning and go as far as you want. Make sure to do the study drills that the author suggests.

If you need help to set it up, we can do that on the next pug meeting, and you start working there.

Best,

Rafa

We are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow for our biweekly meeting.
Please come to work, chat, snack, drink, ask questions, and whatever else makes sense for our Python group.
We should have some new people there, so it will be a good time to suggest new things to do as a group—if you want.

Best,
Rafa

We just decided the schedule for the semester, and we will start next week (Feb 7). I will post everything tomorrow.

I like your idea for a session, why don’t you bring that up on the next meeting so we could talk more details?

Sorry for taking long to reply, we were all super busy with the Digital Institute that took place last week.

About Python the Hard Way: some people really like it, some people don’t. As any pedagogical tool, it will suit some, but not all. We just started using it as a group last semester, and I personally think it is working well. We…[Read more]

I would like to do it if you still need someone. Here is my contact:

Rafael Davis Portela
929-237-9575
rdavisportela@gradcenter.cuny.edu

See you soon.

We are looking forward to see you tomorrow for our happy-holidays-last-meeting-of-the-year. You’ve already done plenty this week, so tomorrow afternoon will be time to forget about your research and classes for bit and work together in some relaxing (we will make sure to have a couple beers and snacks there) python exercises…[Read more]

Please encourage students and faculty in your programs to apply for this year’s GC Digital Research Institute (GC DRI), which will run January 21-24, 2020. Applications, available at http://cuny.is/gcdri2020, are due by December 2, 2019 at 11:59 PM. Participation is free and requir…[Read more]

Looking forward to see you tomorrow (Nov 22nd, 3:00-4:30 pm, Room 7414) on our pre-thanksgiving pug meeting! (I will try to have  a couple beers there)

For those who haven’t come yet: each one is working in their own pace. Therefore, it doesn’t matter how many exercises you’ve done – maybe you are just starting – come and work with us.…[Read more]

We are looking forward to see you tomorrow (Nov 8th, 3:00-4:30 pm, Room 7414) to work together on those Python exercises.
No matter what exercise you are in, or if you haven’t started yet, make sure to come and work with us.

Best,
Rafa

The next meetings will be on:

– November 8th
– November 22nd
– December 6th

nov 8
nov 22
dec 6

What do you think?

So, today some of the group expressed desire to meet more often. They felt that three weeks might be too long, and you will end up forgetting things.

I do tend to agree with that, and I’m in to meet more frequently. My only concern is that we make sure we can have something…[Read more]

Looking forward to see you this Friday (Oct 25th, 3:00-4:30pm, Room 7414) so we can work together on those Python exercises.

Best,

Rafa