Maseeh College of Engineering, Portland State University

[Rescheduled after snow day]

How many pages are reachable from Wikipedia's page on the Rust programming language in two hops? Around 30,000, it turns out, including pages on wheat flour, Welsh orthography, and the zombie apocalypse.

As it turns out, it's super easy to do this exploration using asynchronous Rust code. Wikipedia offers a cute little REST API for querying links, and it's easy to use Serde to generate requests and parse replies. And if you're feeling guilty about flooding a precious public resource with silly API requests, it's also super easy to do rate limiting.

Jim Blandy will show how to wire up Tokio, Reqwest, and Serde to do the spidering, and whip up a mock server for testing using Warp. The techniques shown work nicely for all kinds of REST API scripting, including, say, GitHub.

Scientific Computing for Planners, Engineers and Scientists April 3 – 10, 2019 (9 AM - 5 PM) at Portland State University in Portland, OR

For the third year, we're hosting our popular two-part data science course at PSU.

Did you ever feel you are “drinking from a hose” with the amount of data you are attempting to analyze? Have you been frustrated with the tedious steps in your data processing and analysis process and thinking, “There’s gotta be a better way to do things”? Are you curious what the buzz of data science is about? If any of your answers are yes, then this course is for you. Classes will all be hands-on sessions with lecture, discussions and labs. You can attend either course, or both.

Part One - Introductory Course Cost: $350 Coding and scripting basics Intro to data wrangling and visualizations Version control and best practices

Part Two - Intermediate Course Cost: $500 Transforming, visualizing, and modeling data Functions and iterations Applications for communicating results

REGISTER FOR BOTH PARTS AT A DISCOUNT: $750

ChickTech is excited to host the annual High School Kickoff from November 10th-11th at the Maseeh College of Engineering at Portland State University! Every year, this inspiring weekend-long event gives 150 underserved high school girls the opportunity to explore technology careers through hands-on workshops. They leave the event with new found confidence, their very own technological project, a deep connection to empowering peers and mentors, and inspiration to pursue a technical career. We need your help in transforming their lives! Sign up now to volunteer at the event in a number of roles here: https://goo.gl/Ynbem4