Summary of student presentations from the Python course
http://staff.washington.edu/jon/python-course/

Week 2, Oct 19

Aaron Bazar: Calculating the value of a coin collection. 
 Screen-scraping, regular expression, CGI script writes results to web page
Jeff Silverman: Python IPV6 server
 Use socket library with appropriate options
Joe Simpson: Creating ART with Python
 Express ART system engineering methodology in Python
Alicia Sullivan: GIS in Python
 Python scripts that work with ArcGIS, 'industry standard, MS of GIS'

Week 3, Oct 26

Eyal Arian: Scientific computing in Python
 Reports on initial experiences with numpy, scipy, SAGE
Melissa Rice: Python-based spreadsheet
 Experiences and demo of ResolverOne
Gregg Toth: Python-controlled radio scanner
 Demo serial module to control police scanner via RS232 port

Week 4, Nov 2

Jeff Boschee: Software Testing
 Discusses several tools, demo PAMIE, IE automation for Python
Lisa Henry: Code quality and how to improve it
 Using pylint style analyzer in a shared environment
Andrew Hosch: Search with Python using regular expressions
 Use re module to search huge collection of log files
Patrick Morgan: exec and eval
 Demos their use in calculator that also uses TkInter

Week 5, Nov 9

Peter Conerly: Analyzing Go game with Python
 Find prevalence of Josekis (standard openings) in database of Go games 
Jon Crump: Python for Medieval History: Itinerary of King John
 Extract text/organize data from OCR scans of strange 19th century typography 
Jonathan Poland: Python access to databases
 Reviews relational databases available for Python, demo mySQLdb
Daniel Nguyen: Web application
 Reports experience with pydev, Google App Engine, Flickr API, Django

Week 6, Nov 16

Nathan Buck: Reviewed paper comparing several programming languages
 Case study: student assignment, find words on phone keys given phone number
Paul Fearn: BioPython, mining and classifying biomedical abstracts
 Biospecimen problem, use BioPython to access Entrez database API
Richard Fuhr: Coin tossing, Monte Carlo methods, and Python
 Programmed and analyzed Monte Carlo coin-toss simulation in C and Python

Week 7, Nov 23

Class cancelled due to weather

Week 8, Nov 30

Aaron Franklin: A To-Do list in Python
 Demo datetime library, sorting by user-selected keys
Derek Reiff: PHP to Python: a simple rewrite
 Convert from PHP/mySQL to Google App Engine with Google data store
Mark Simonson: UrbanSim + Opus platform
 Describes system with 3000 Python modules. Converted from Java in 2005

Week 9, Dec 7

Sunhee Jung: Computational Biology
 Show Biopython code that translates DNA sequence to protein amino acid sequence
Nolan Nichols: Open-Source Neuroimaging Tools for Python
 Discuss XNAT, NiPype, pyxnat tools, show code for defining workflow graph
Ted Tieken: Django and the Scaffolding Engine
 Describe Django, critique generic views, discuss replacement scaffolding engine
Brian Walls: Python and Home Media
 Describes MIME, mp3 etc, discuss Mutagen module for accessing mp3 metadata

Week 10, Dec 14

Daniel Araneda: Network Security
 Demo dictionary attack, using ftplib and a dictionary of passwords in file
Ben Cleveland: Revision Control 
 Explain revision control, show use of svn with Google Code and TortoiseSVN
Jeff Conn: dpkt: Fast, Simple Packet Creation and Parsing:
 Demo dpkt library, extract and analyze packets recorded in pcap format file
Toshi Esumi: Python Tools at Telekenex
 Explain and show tools used by ISP including syslog analysis and alerting
Delane Jackson: Web Frameworks: web2py
 Explain and demonstrate web2py framework, build a simple site during the talk
Jacob Newfield: Automating F5 FreePass
 Explain,demo software installation and use: first by hand, then with Tcl script