Conference Schedule

Day 1 — Saturday, 23 February 2019

8:30am - 9:30am Registration
9:30am - 9:45am Welcome to PyCascades
9:45am - 10:10am Katie McLaughlin: Turning 'wat' into 'why'
10:20am - 10:45am Al Sweigart: The Amazing Mutable, Immutable Tuple
10:55am - 11:20am Jigyasa Grover: Perceiving Python Programming Paradigms
11:20am - 11:35am Break
11:35am - 12:00pm Iyanuoluwa Ajao: Type Hints: Adding Types to Legacy Code
12:10pm - 12:35pm Paul Watts: Given this, assert that: fluent testing using fixtures and properties
12:35pm - 1:50pm Lunch
1:50pm - 2:20pm Lightning Talks
2:30pm - 2:55pm Norah Klintberg Sakal: Guide to your own artificial intelligence application in 3 easy steps
3:05pm - 3:30pm Ania Kapuścińska: Lint your code responsibly!
3:40pm - 4:05pm Maria McKinley: Hunting the bugs
4:05pm - 4:35pm Coffee Break
4:35pm - 5:00pm Ben Berry: Who to blame for all your problems
5:10pm - 5:35pm Hayley Denbraver: Recursion, Fractals, and the Python Turtle Module

Day 2 — Sunday, 24 February 2019

8:30am - 9:30am Registration
9:30am - 9:45am Welcome to PyCascades
9:45am - 10:10am Nina Zakharenko: Light Up Your Life - With Python and LEDs!
10:20am - 10:45am Dustin Ingram: Data Protection for Developers: Past, Present, and Future
10:55am - 11:20am Omayeli Arenyeka: Building a Gendered Dictionary
11:20am - 11:35am Break
11:35am - 12:00pm Andy Fundinger: A Taxonomy of Decorators: A-E
12:10pm - 12:35pm Chirag Shah: Understanding Multithreading
12:35pm - 1:50pm Lunch
1:50pm - 2:20pm Lightning Talks
2:30pm - 2:55pm Kyungyun Lee: So tell me, what is your musical taste?
3:05pm - 3:30pm Chris Waigl: Abstraction for students of all the things
3:40pm - 4:05pm Abhishek Kapatkar: Nim for Python Programmers
4:05pm - 4:35pm Coffee Break
4:35pm - 5:00pm Philip James and Asheesh Laroia: Account Security for the Fashionable App Developer
5:10pm - 5:35pm Trey Hunner: Meaningful Mentoring Moments