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This is a chance for people to get together for moral support, project assistance, and homework assistance.  We’ll have an experienced python developer or two on hand to help answer questions and explain difficult concepts. This is an “office hours” event with volunteer teaching assistants.
This is a chance for people to get together for moral support, project assistance, and homework assistance.  We’ll have an experienced python developer or two on hand to help answer questions and explain difficult concepts. This is an “office hours” event with volunteer teaching assistants.


For ''students'', the expectation is that you watch lectures, read tutorials and attempt homework on your own, then use this as a resource to aid in learning.  
For ''students'', the expectation is that you watch lectures, read tutorials and attempt homework on your own, then use this as a resource to aid in learning.
 
Learning over productivity.
 
No one should be hesitant to ask for help because they think they
would be breaking someones flow. We are not there to get things done,
we are there to learn.
 
It should be restricted to learning Python.  It is easy to get
derailed into trying to install Linux, or html/css browser problems.
It's great that a bunch of people are learning random things, but if
we hare concentrating on something other than Python, we are not
learning Python.
 


== Curious but don't have a specific question or project? ==
== Curious but don't have a specific question or project? ==