A delayed summary of Python Ireland's February meet-up last Wednesday -- another great event, after which I promptly fell sick (getting ready to kick ass again now though :)). In January, the group had a simple and nice "pub meet-up", where a few Python beginners and novices turned up (including one who's …

Post-session #1 thoughts (from Monday's scribbles):

• Note to self: Re-read carefully the lesson's content beforehand, to remember it all. Knowing what's "print" and what's a variable like the back of your hand doesn't mean you remember how to explain them to someone encountering the concepts for the first time. Very …

After a bit of tension over securing a room, someone sorted us out and I will therefore be teaching another introduction to programming with Python, to a group of beginners, starting Monday! Exciting. I have a draft of everything I want to do on the first day, I need to …

Last Monday was the last session of my short "Introduction to programming, with Python" class. Eight adults signed up, the course lasted for 5 weeks on Monday evenings and overall the impressions are positive. I made progress in places, and learnt how to improve in others.

I suspect I must have sounded particularly freaked out when people were late last week, because this time (last Monday) several people added a variant of "but I love the course!" at the end of their message letting me know they couldn't attend, haha! I once again left full of …