I recently gave a talk «Introduction to Functional Programming in Python» at PyCon UK.
Accompanying notes, including homework (49e3 octet PDF)
In another post I give my ramblings on PyCon as a whole.
It was my first talk and it was a very interesting experience. Thanks to all who attended (it was much more popular than I was expecting). It’s definitely something I should do more of.
[2008-05-06: I gave a talk with the same title but about 50% different content at the spring UKUUG]
code monk 
2007-09-10 at 17:42:34
Congratulations on the talk!
PS: have you seen http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/functional.html ? Not that you could cover anything like all that in a talk, but it’s quite an intelligent overview of FP in Python 2.5.
2007-09-10 at 19:22:53
I hadn’t seen it before (I might have actually, but it was sufficiently long ago that it was well worth linking to). From a quick skim, it looks very good, and just the sort of thing I should be promoting in Python. It should definitely be on the Further Reading list.
2007-09-14 at 02:07:03
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(Never mind.)