1. 'Intro to programming' class

    Last Monday was session #2 for the Introduction to programming class (with Python!) that I'm teaching in Tog.

    The class was starting at 7pm and I freaked out a little when by 7.15 only 2 people from the week before had showed up, plus one brand new student (was …

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  2. Teaching, edition #2

    Last Monday I started teaching my introduction to programming course, edition #2 to a small group of adults this time. Here are a few thoughts from the evening.

    Installing Python and an IDE

    First of all, as expected getting Python to work on multiple platforms as well as more or …

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  3. Python course for beginners in Dublin

    I finally started to put the whole organisational part in motion before going to GUADEC, and now I'm finally starting to publicise the course! I'm going to teach again my Python course, for adults this time, for people with no programming background. The course will start on August 23rd and …

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  4. Teaching how to program using Python, roundup

    Over a few weeks, I taught a group of 6 teenagers, complete beginners, how to program using Python as the main language to illustrate concepts and to code examples. There were 4 sessions lasting 3 hours each. The final session was about 3 weeks ago and since then I've been …

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  5. Teaching Python, session 2! | Reflecting on the process

    I went through my 2nd Python teaching session today, with the same students than last time. Some improvements and still, so-so-so many things to improve. Teaching is something I really want to get better at so I'm really motivated to debug my process.

    Having prepared more exercises to hand out …

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