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Learn python in minutes

by Kracekumar Ramaraju (speaking)

Section
Workshops
Technical level
Beginner

Objective

To teach participants to program in Python with confidence. At the end of the sessions participants should be confident enough to write standalone python program.

Description

Best part of python is with 50 lines of code, it is possible to do useful task. Not yet convinced see an example Song downloader. Yes old code (42 lines).

The workshop will be tailored for beginners. The workshop will cover basic concepts like

  • Variables
  • Numbers
  • Conditional branching (if else)
  • Loops (for loop)
  • Data structure - List, dictionary
  • Functions
  • File handling - Reading and writing to file
  • Getting user input
  • inbuilt functions like sum, min, max

Yes in 3 hours I will be covering all the above concepts. All the above mentioned concepts will be covered hands on with exercises.

Workshop Repo: https://github.com/kracekumar/learnpythoninminutes

Requirements

  1. Laptop with Python 2.7 installed https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/.

  2. Text editor setup like Sublime Text

Installation instructions:

  1. Mac OS X

  2. Windows 7 and above

  3. GNU/Linux

Speaker bio

Kracekumar works at Recruiterbox. Python occupies most of his time. Whenever he needs to write code it is mostly Python.

Kracekumar has handled quite a number of python workshops. Workshops were of few hours, one day or two days. I enjoy teaching python. April month bangpypers workshop conducted by me received very well

Kracekumar has built web applications with Django, Flask and other libraries.

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