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1 EuroPython 2010 Tutorial
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2 ========================
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4 Time, date and location
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7 This tutorial will take place on Saturday 17th July, from 2pm to
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8 5.45pm in Lecture Room 2, the Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham,
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9 UK.
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12 Installed software
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15 Participants should bring with them a laptop computer with the
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16 following installed:
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18 1. The Firefox web browser, with the Firebug add-on.
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20 2. A programmer's editor, preferably with a JavaScript mode.
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22 3. A command line JavaScript interpreter.
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24 * For Linux I suggest SpiderMonkey.
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26 .. code-block:: bash
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32 * For Windows and Mac I suggest JSDB, from
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33 http://www.jsdb.org/download.html. It also works on Linux.
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35 4. This documentation, downloaded from
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36 `Bitbucket downloads <http://bitbucket.org/jfine/javascript-for-python-programmers/downloads>`_.
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38 5. The Python documentation, download from
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39 `Python docs site <http://docs.python.org/download.html>`_.
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42 Timetable
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45 The tutorial consist of two 90 minutes sessions, separated by a 15
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49 I hope to run six sessions, each 30 minutes long. I hope each session
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51 programming. The topics I'm intending to cover are
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55 2. JavaScript gotchas.
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57 3. Objects and inheritance, class basics.
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59 Here we have a 15 minute break.
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63 5. Closures, modules and memory leaks.
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65 6. Delegation.
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67 We finish at 5.15pm.
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70 Is this tutorial for me?
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73 This tutorial aimed at Python web developers who already know a bit of
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74 JavaScript, and who need to understand JavaScript better.
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76 The tutorial has two related objectives. One is a good understanding
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77 of the counters example. The other is a good understanding of the
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78 things that make JavaScript so different from Python (apart from
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79 JavaScript being the only language supported by web browsers).
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81 If you're thinking of taking this tutorial take the :doc:`gotcha-quiz`
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83 what's there a bit, and would like to understand it more, then this
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84 tutorial is for you.
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89 If you're going to attend the tutorial, I'd appreciate an email from
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90 you that tells me a little bit about yourself and what you'd like to
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91 get from the tutorial. If you have specific questions about
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92 JavaScript, I'd like to here them also. (I can be contacted at
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93 Jonathan.Fine1 at gmail.com.)
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95 You can also, I believe, just turn up on the day, if there is
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96 space. Don't forget to install the software on your laptop.