Re: [Pythoncard-users] ACCU conference

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

Many thanks to Alex for filling in for me! The ACCU slides were almost 
identical to my Pycon presentation and the same sample application, the 
mortgage calculator, in the samples/financial folder were used for the 
demo.

http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/papers/42/PythonCard_Pycon_2005.pdf

ka
On Apr 24, 2005, at 3:39 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

>
> I was very lucky this last week to be able to attend the ACCU 
> conference in Oxford, England. Kevin had been scheduled to give his 
> talk on "Keeping it simple with Pythoncard" there, but was unable to 
> attend, so I went in his place.
>
> It's really great to be able to give and talk when all the hard work 
> (i.e. the preparation and writing the slides) has been done by someone 
> else :-)  The talk was a brief overview of Pythoncard, followed by a 
> demo of building a simple app from scratch. While it was a simple app, 
> it did demonstrate a variety of features, including component 
> placement and editing, 'auto' event binding, menu building, using 
> "command" instead of select in menus, dialogs, etc.
>
> ACCU *used* to stand for the "Association of C and C++ Users" - I 
> guess officially it still does, but in practice it has expanded to 
> cover a number of other languages, and is essentially an organization, 
> and conference, for professional developers. There were as many Java 
> sessions as there were C++ ones, and there was a separate Python 
> track. I believe the slides etc. will be available shortly, and once 
> they are I'll send another note to this list to let you know where to 
> find them.
>
> There were a couple of other presentations on GUI systems for Python 
> (using wxPython directly, and PyQt). Net result is I have come back 
> with a re-invigorated set of ideas on what I'd like to see in 
> Pythoncard, specifically in the Resource Editor to make it easier and 
> faster to use, so I'll post those shortly.
>
> -- 
> Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net