Hey could you provide some resources for learning Distributed Computing using Python. I was thinking of using Go but since I know python to a considerable extent, I wanna give Python a fighting chance for making distributed systems.
Guido has been conceiving the idea gradual typing in python and wants to introduce this into python 3.5. I think this will be a great mix of both weak and strong type checking.
Hey also a Computer Science student here. I know it is no fun hacking alone and sometimes you feel like having your own badass hacker crew crunching code and saving the day. As they say "Charity Begins at Home" Your first step could to show the fruits of your own passion and motivation to your friends on something cool you hacked during the weekend. I am motivated by Python Celeb programmers like Kenneth Retiz and how he made a badass Python library called "requests". It is the innate ability to take charge and do it. If you think you can solve a problem, by the philosophy of open source you are under an obligation to solve that problem and make it available to everyone else. On the other hand it's their freewill. They can choose to hack on side projects or not depending on their priorities. They might have more higher priority obligations to do and pursuing a side project is really not on their list right now.