Dev Club Weekly: At the University

THE SPACE AT GRU IS PERFECT!!! 

We had a great big projector! An entire wall of whiteboard! More seating that 5 of my living rooms! Next week Chad (thank you Chad) is making Dev Club into a Meetup event, so invite all your techie friends! Conversations:

• FRED'S SUPER AWESOME UPCOMING DJANGO WORKSHOP!
  • July 19, 10 am to 4 pm. 
  • $120 - cash. unmarked bills. or - preferably - Bitcoin*.
  • Lunch is catered from Jimmy Johns, Brunch is catered too (donuts and bagels and coffee)
  • Prerequisites: first 2 chapters of Learn Python the Hard Way
• The value of being the complete package: design, front-end engineering and back-end engineering (in a nutshell, it lets you attach a problem at any level of the stack, and means you never have to wait on somebody else). As a corollary: Amory Luvins and Saul Griffith.
• The Lab and the Factory
• Money: what it is
• TCP
• Google PageRank**
• John Kleinberg
• SHA1
• The 6 magic things (you need to know to start programming in any language)
  • how to set a variable (basic data types: numbers, strings, booleans)
  • conditionals (if else statements, control flow)
  • sets (this could be arrays, or lists, or hash maps or tuples, depending on the language)
  • loops
  • functions
  • where to find the documentation
• Tesla Motors and The Oatmeal

See y'all next week!

*just kidding, checks are cool, pay early or pay there.
**and my suspicion that some country or other will realize soon that the free market is PageRank without a buffer...