[Inpycon] Python Month - Guildelines for speakers

[Sanket Saurav]

I have a presentation prepared about why someone should learn Python, where
is it being used, etc. Would be perfect for an introduction. I will share
the presentation here.
On Jul 23, 2013 6:45 PM, "Manjush Cool" <manjushcool at gmail.com> wrote:

> For people conducting talks in their college. I feel, it's better to
> motivate them towards python by showing them how widely python is used in
> various fields. They can always go to internet and browse if they get
> motivated about python.
>
> I can't generalize what to do.I can tell what we planned for college event:
>
> * Intro to python
>
> * Motivate people in to web development and start-up.Tell them how python
> is used in this perspective.
>
> * Motivate people about big data.Tell them how basic twitter analysis is
> done using python.
>
> * Motivate people about Machine learning. Tell about how to do it easily
> using python.
>
> *Game development.
>
> What do you think Anand ?
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> It'll be nice to come up with some guidelines for speakers giving
>> workshops at various colleges during Python Month. Most of them will be
>> first time speakers, so giving an outline and dos and don'ts will be useful.
>>
>> One thing I would like to have is a 5-minute presentation on "Why
>> Python?", explaining what is Python, who uses that and why should someone
>> learn python. If we start the workshop with this, it'll make the students
>> excited to learn Python, instead of thinking that Python is toy a scripting
>> language.
>>
>> Anyone would like to volunteer to prepare that presentation?
>>
>> I'm planning to call a speaker meeting on Saturday to have a discussion
>> with all the speakers who've registered with Python Month in Bangalore and
>> go over the guidelines that we form here, discuss in detail about how to do
>> the workshop.
>>
>> Coming back to guidelines:
>>
>> What should be covered in the introduction to Python workshop:
>>
>> * Intro to python
>> * if condition, for loop, functions
>> * lists, tuples, sets, dicts
>> * list comprehensions
>> * importing python modules
>> * brief tour of standard library
>> * writing classes (optional)
>>
>> I don't think it is good idea to get into installing third-party modules
>> in a one-day workshop.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Anand
>>
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