[python-nl] teaching more people to program

[Remco Wendt]

+10 on this!! :) I'm definitely interested in helping out. Actually I'm
about to help a friend start programming in Python next week and we've
already done some Django bootcamps. Maybe a meetup in person sometime soon?

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Alper Çugun <alper at hubbub.eu> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to organize something to help more people in the Amsterdam area /
> Netherlands to learn how to program. You might have seen this important
> initiative: http://www.code.org/
>
> I occasionally give some programming lessons to absolute beginners already
> and I was thinking of organizing an event in Amsterdam but it's too big to
> do by myself (and I spend most of my time in Berlin now). I am involved
> with Hack de Overheid and we would definitely support it and we're already
> thinking of ways to push this into schools. There are tons of material and
> immaterial benefits to teaching more people how to program.
>
> Here in Berlin I help out with Open Tech School (
> http://www.opentechschool.org/ ) which is a lot of fun and reaches quite
> some people. They're an open (source) organization which means, we could
> fork it to Amsterdam.
>
> I'd like to hear if you're interested in something like that or what your
> thoughts are. If there's enough interest, I think we could kick something
> off.
>
> Best,
> Alper
>
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