Our next school for Advanced Programming in Python will take place in Trento, Italy on October 4th-8th, 2010. Application deadline: August 31st, 2010. Bellow will you find the detailed program:

Day 0 — Software Carpentry & Advanced Python

• Documenting code and using version control
• Object-oriented programming, design patterns, and agile programming
• Exception handling, lambdas, decorators, context managers, metaclasses

Day 1 — Software Carpentry

• Test-driven development, unit testing & Quality Assurance
• Debugging, profiling and benchmarking techniques
• Data serialization: from pickle to databases

Day 2 — Scientific Tools for Python

• Advanced NumPy
• The Quest for Speed (intro): Interfacing to C
• Programming project

Day 3 — The Quest for Speed

• Writing parallel applications in Python
• When parallelization does not help: the starving CPUs problem
• Programming project

Day 4 — Practical Software Development

• Efficient programming in teams
• Programming project
• The Pac-Man Tournament