PyCon US 2025

Codyssey is a 3-hour workshop where you’ll learn about the control system programming model and implement simple systems in Python to autonomously play various games. You’ll observe the behavior of your system in a visual environment, and compete with other participants to solve as many games as you can. Along the way, you’ll have to think creatively and practice translating your intuition into code. During the workshop, I’ll mentor individual participants/pairs; after the competitive part, I’ll live-code solutions for chosen challenges while demonstrating how to apply the control system programming model. Each challenge will have you implementing a function that runs dozens of times a second, deciding which action to take. Come hone your Python skills, adapt to a new way of thinking, and tackle some epic challenges! Joining us at PyCon US 2025? Register your spot for this tutorial today via the us.pycon.org/2025/ website! More information about PyCon US 2025 tutorials and the full schedule here: https://us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/tutorials/

Are you confused or frustrated by comprehensions? Do you wonder about their syntax -- or even why we would use them in the first place? In my "Comprehending comprehensions" tutorial, you'll learn not only how to write comprehensions, but (more importantly) why and when to do so. We'll go through list, set, and dict comprehensions, as well as the harder-to-understand nested-comprehension syntax and generator expressions. The tutorial won't use slides: Rather, I'll use a notebook to write notes and code in real time, allowing me not only to demonstrate the code, but also to answer your questions in real time. (The notebook I use will be available both while the tutorial is going on, and afterwards.) I've been teaching Python for many years, and comprehensions remain one of the topics that most confuse developers, regardless of how long they've been using Python. After attending my tutorial, you'll not only know how to use comprehensions -- you'll actually want to do so. Joining us at PyCon US 2025? Register your spot for this tutorial today via the us.pycon.org/2025/ website! More information about PyCon US 2025 tutorials and the full schedule here: https://us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/tutorials/