April Announcements
Next Meeting April 18th
Our next SoCal Python Meeting will once again be at O'Brien's Pub in Santa Monica, Saturday April 18th, starting at 2PM.
We do not currently have a speaker lined up. If you have something you want to present (maybe you are presenting something at PyCon US next month and want some practice and an audience), please reach out!
PyCon US Booth
As mentioned last time, we need volunteers to help staff our community booth at PyCon US 2026! Please fill out this form with your availability, or use the contact form.
Hope to see you there!
Melinda's Notes
Once again, big thanks to Melinda Thielbar, PhD for her talk at the March Meeting. Here is the list of resources she recommended for further reading/learning:
The books mentioned were: Small is Beautiful by E.F Schumacher and How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner.
Resources for using AI coding assistants: https://zencoder.ai/blog/how-to-use-ai-in-coding, https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-prompt-engineering-playbook-for
Learning how LLMs work: https://youtu.be/kCc8FmEb1nY?si=jBzB2bhucaJL-iz3
Andrew Ng’s Coursera courses: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning (very programmer friendly, less pure-math friendly).
MIT edX is also a good resource, but a little more self-directed: https://www.edx.org/learn/machine-learning/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-machine-learning-with-python-from-linear-models-to-deep-learning
Stanford has all of their CS courses on YouTube for free: https://youtube.com/@stanfordonline?si=AE_nNEPKe8OuCFkO
Until next time,
- The SoCal Python Organizers
