[Inpycon] Questions for "python in education" panel

[Anand B Pillai]

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On Tuesday 13 August 2013 12:56 AM, Annapoornima Koppad wrote:
> Hi Noufal,
> 
> I had one question. There are pilot workshops that are run colleges
> only during the Python month or or an event close to that. How
> about attracting talent other than engineers, say for example, arts
> and commerce graduates towards Python programming.
> 
> I am not sure if this question qualifies as interesting, but just
> my thoughts

The question has a lot of merit. In India, the technical field
(IT, software development) is very much the area for people who
have done their graduation in Engineering or related (M.C.A/B.C.A)
degrees.

However this is not so in the west where the field attracts
people from multiple disciplines and aptitude is what that
counts.

Python being such an easy language to learn and develop in,
kind of levels the playing field and makes it easy for
anyone to code.

It would be good to discuss this in the education panel.

> 
> Warm regards, Anu
> 
> 

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