Dec 6
A few weeks back I noticed in my email an announcement for a conference on Scientific Python happening at IIT - Bombay. I immediately registered for the 4 day conference comprising of 2 day conference (talks) + 2 day tutorials + sprints. I could not attend the second half of the conference as my "Corporate" responsibilities did not allow me to spend so much time.
In my professional life, I use python on a day to day basis, but I solve the commercial world problems like how to make an application work better without flaws or how to make sure that a web-app works the way it is expected to work. I don't solve mathematical problems at work nor do I foresee any work in solving mathematical problems.
The only reason I went there was to vet my decision to move to using Python as my primary language for coding. About 3 years back, when I decided that I should have a skill set beyond MS Visual Basic / .Net and pick up an open source coding platform, I had a choice between Java and Python. Ruby and Rails were also promising and upcoming languages at that time. But I picked Python.
I am glad I picked up Python back then and after attending a scientific python conference I can safely say, python was the correct choice I made back then.
