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Author Talk

Software Development with Python

Event details

Calendar icon May 07, 2021
Clock icon 9:00 AM CDT-10:30 AM CDT
Globe icon Americas

What you'll learn

One of the great strengths of Python is that it's accessible to many people, and it's relatively easy to be productive and create valuable code in Python without formal training in software fundamentals. Over time, though, a lack of attention to software engineering details can lead to programs that are difficult to understand, modify, maintain, and share. 

In this talk we'll look at some general concepts in software engineering, as well as concrete practices for working in Python, that will help elevate your programs from sufficient to exceptional. We'll look at ways to think about "internal" issues in software design as well as more visible issues such as testing and distributing your code.

Austin's class is intended as Intermediate and Advanced Python. The pre-work is a general re-fresh of Python as a prerequisite for Author day. Click the button below for pre-work video link:

The Host

Austin Bingham

Austin is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting, training, and application development company. A native of Texas, in 2008 Austin moved to Stavanger, Norway where he helped develop industry-leading oil reservoir modeling software in C++ and Python. Prior to that he worked at National Instruments developing LabVIEW, at Applied Research Labs (Univ. of Texas at Austin) developing sonar systems for the U.S. Navy, and at a number of telecommunications companies. He is an experienced presenter and teacher, having spoken at a number of conferences, software groups, and internal corporate venues. Austin is also an active member of the open source community, contributing regularly to various Python and Emacs projects, and he's the founder of Stavanger Software Developers, one of the largest and most active social software groups in Stavanger. Austin holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.