Roc Py happened again. What even happened. I can't really remember all that well because I pretty much fell asleep. Not really, that would have been rude but the talks were far from engaging.
First up was the talk on the python module itertools. A neat little module that seems to double up most of the basic functionality of python with an iterable return value. I guess that's useful and flexible but I feel like that just adds an added layer of complexity on top of the possible Python Programming Paradigms. It's just another thing that you have to decide to use when writing something in Python. Are we using classes? are we doing a more functional style? are we using tabs or spaces? are we using default or itertools? There are so many questions I ask myself whenever I write something in Python and I end up just getting confused.
Next were the lightning talks. Franky I can't really remember what they were about. I know that Ross Dylan gave a nice talk on distributed systems but as a game dev student it largely went over my head. Deployment isn't really a thing I ever have to worry about, or at least not yet.
The main talk was completely beyond me. I could not pay attention to it in the slightest. Something about using python to script advanced camera equipment? I feel like what took over an hour could have been summed up in 20 minutes. I get that not everyone is a great presenter but it was a tad ridiculous how long it took to reinforce the point that Python is a useful scripting language. There were very few useful code examples and the slide deck was just kind of a mess. I'd much rather have preferred a shorter talk with more hands on demo which I didn't even have time to look at.
Maybe it would have been much more enthralling if I enjoyed using Python but as it stands I was thoroughly unimpressed.
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