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1 EuroPython 2011 Tutorial
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4 Time, date and location
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7 This tutorial will take place on Tuesday 21st June, from 14.30 to
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8 18.30 (2.30pm to 6.30pm) in Training Pizza Napoli.
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11 Installed software
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14 Participants should bring with them a laptop computer with the
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15 following installed:
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17 1. The Firefox web browser, with the Firebug add-on.
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19 2. A programmer's editor, preferably with a JavaScript mode.
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21 I use emacs, together with js2-mode.
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29 $ sudo apt-get install spidermonkey-bin # Ubuntu
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31 (No longer, I'm told, available for Ubuntu 10.4.)
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33 * For Windows and Mac I suggest JSDB, from
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34 http://www.jsdb.org/download.html. It also works on Linux.
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36 4. This documentation, downloaded from
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37 `Bitbucket downloads <http://bitbucket.org/jfine/javascript-for-python-programmers/downloads>`_.
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39 5. The Python documentation, download from
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40 `Python docs site <http://docs.python.org/download.html>`_.
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43 Timetable
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46 We start at 14.30 prompt, with software already
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47 installed if possible.
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49 I hope to run seven sessions, each about 30 minutes long. They'll be
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50 about 20-30 minutes for breaks, as we need then. I hope each session
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52 programming. The topics I'm intending to cover are
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73 Is this tutorial for me?
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92 If you're going to attend the tutorial, I'd appreciate an email from
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93 you that tells me a little bit about yourself and what you'd like to
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94 get from the tutorial. If you have specific questions about
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95 JavaScript, I'd like to here them also. (I can be contacted at
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96 Jonathan.Fine1 at gmail.com.)
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99 space. Don't forget to install the software on your laptop.