[omaha] Python Workshops @ DoSpace Group

[Adam Shaver]

Sign me up for the list to help out.

    --Adam

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T via Omaha <
omaha at python.org> wrote:

> To all of who offered to help in any form with giving Python workshops @
> DoSpace,
>
> I've been hammering out some ideas for a class targeted at those new to
> programming in particular.
>
> We should probably start a conversation about it and see what we can put
> together.
>
> Here are some goals, because we need to have something to measure against:
>
> * should allow for students to do something with Python as soon as possible
> - don't want them bored and inattentive.
>
> * The See/Do affect of examples should have the following qualities:
>
>   * be pep8 compliant (only deviating when we are teaching a specific
> topic.)
>
>   * be easy to test.  No example has print or input in the middle of a
> function other than main or one designed to deal with user interaction.
> Too many examples mix I/O with processing leaving students with a knack for
> writing hard to test code.  (All example code and problems should have an
> associated test suite [py.test] to accompany them.)
>
>   * Should emphasize DRY and only deviate when showing them undry
> situations and how to correct.
>
>   * Early coding problems are often quite boring, so there should be some
> sort of setup for them, a backstory, to get the students invested in their
> solution.  For Example - learning comparison operators -- "Sam is a young
> AI with untrained neural nets and we need to write a module to help train
> him had to organize two things so he can put them on a shelf in order."
>  Sounds a lot more interesting than write a function that compares 2 things
> and output them in order from smallest to largest. *yawn*
>
>
> So what are your ideas?  What are you willing to help out with?  We'll need
> material reviewers, testers and trainers and TAs for actual classes.
>
>
> I believe someone has offered to be our DoSpace ambassador. Sorry, but I
> didn't write down your name at the meeting.  Would you speak up once again.
>
>
> --
> Best,
>
> Jeff Hinrichs
> 402.218.1473
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