The Central Ohio Python User's Group

Your program is Hideous and obfuscated challenge Y.P.H.O.C.

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While other groups are holding ugly sweater contests; we are asking you to provide your ugliest program. In the spirit of The International Obfuscated C Code Contest we are asking our members to bring in their masterpieces of unreadable incomprehensible yet functional python programs. Gift cards will be given out for:

  • "Crowd favorite technique."
  • "A LLM can't decipher this."
  • “Best one line program.”

Submissions due by January 12th, 2026

Weekly Dojos

We meet most Thursday evenings:

Dojos are informal Python group study sessions where everyone interested in Python gathers to learn about Python, help others with Python or just hang out. Everyone interested in Python from complete beginners, to experts, and everyone in between are welcome to the Dojos. Bring your Python questions and problems. Digressions from Python are common.

The Forge Tavern
1375 Bethel Rd
Columbus, OH 43220
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Please bring your laptop and power supply. Power strips will be available.

October Monthly Meetup

October 27, 2025, 6:00 p.m.

Improving
330 Rush Alley Suite #150
Columbus, OH 43215

Schedule:
  • 6:00 p.m.: Socialize, eat, and drink. Improving will be providing pizza and beverages.
  • 6:30 to 8:00 pm. Main meeting and presentation(s).

Jessica Woods will be presenting "Theoretical AI Development with Ontology" this is a follow - on to her previous talk on AI Development with Furby Hack.


Topics to be covered:
  • Stability in behavioral patterns
  • Logic Checks with Relationhip data and structures
  • Building Data Pipelines
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Object Oriented Programming (OOP) with Python
  • Impact of Semantics on Society vs. Ontology and its Impact on AI engineering
  • Confidence Interval Measurement on LLMs
We meet on the last Monday of each Month. Presentations are given by members and friends of this group. If you would like to do a presentation (small or large) on a python topic, please contact John Cassidy at:
jocassid@gmail.com

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