[python-nl] teaching more people to program

[Dexter]

You could also use raspberry pies, maybe find a sponsor or something. (or
maybe let the children/parents pay)
That way, the children can take it home, and play/practice further


On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Niels Bom <niels at nielsbom.com> wrote:

> I'm interested.
>
> We could try to contact people at universities, like Computer Science
> students, so we can use their facilities (computer rooms, lecture halls
> etc).
>
> Are there any students on this list who'd like to help?
>
> 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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