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+EuroPython 2010 Tutorial
+========================
+
+Time, date and location
+-----------------------
+
+This tutorial will take place on Saturday 17th July, from 2pm to
+5.45pm in Lecture Room 2, the Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham,
+UK.
+
+
+Installed software
+------------------
+
+Participants should bring with them a laptop computer with the
+following installed:
+
+1.  The Firefox web browser, with the Firebug add-on.
+
+2.  A programmer's editor, preferably with a JavaScript mode.
+
+3.  A command line JavaScript interpreter.
+
+    * For Linux I suggest SpiderMonkey.
+      
+         .. code-block:: bash
+
+             $ sudo apt-get install spidermonkey-bin   # Ubuntu
+     
+    * For Windows and Mac I suggest JSDB, from
+      http://www.jsdb.org/download.html.  It also works on Linux.
+
+4.  This documentation, downloaded from 
+    `Bitbucket downloads <http://bitbucket.org/jfine/javascript-for-python-programmers/downloads>`_.
+
+5.  The Python documentation, download from 
+    `Python docs site <http://docs.python.org/download.html>`_.
+
+
+Timetable
+---------
+
+The tutorial consist of two 90 minutes sessions, separated by a 15
+minute break.
+
+I hope to run six sessions, each 30 minutes long.  I hope each session
+will be 15 minutes of me talking followed by 15 minutes of
+programming.
+
+The topics I'm intending to cover are
+
+We start at 2pm prompt, with software already installed if possible.
+
+1. Demonstration and discussion of the counters example application.
+
+2. JavaScript gotchas.
+
+3. Objects and inheritance, class basics.
+
+Here we have a 15 minute break.
+
+4. JavaScript's *this* pseudo-variable (including *call* and *apply*).
+
+5. Closures, modules and memory leaks.
+
+6. Delegation.
+
+We finish at 5.15pm.
+
+
+Is this tutorial for me?
+------------------------
+
+This tutorial aimed at Python web developers who already know a bit of
+JavaScript, and who need to understand JavaScript better.
+
+The tutorial has two related objectives. One is a good understanding
+of the counters example.  The other is a good understanding of the
+things that make JavaScript so different from Python (apart from
+JavaScript being the only language supported by web browsers).
+
+If you're thinking of taking this tutorial take the :doc:`gotcha-quiz`
+and read through the :doc:`counters-example`.  If you understand
+what's there a bit, and would like to understand it more, then this
+tutorial is for you.
+
+Let me know
+-----------
+
+If you're going to attend the tutorial, I'd appreciate an email from
+you that tells me a little bit about yourself and what you'd like to
+get from the tutorial.  If you have specific questions about
+JavaScript, I'd like to here them also.  (I can be contacted at
+Jonathan.Fine1 at gmail.com.)
+
+You can also, I believe, just turn up on the day, if there is
+space. Don't forget to install the software on your laptop.