HO Code Club

PyData London

Tariq Rashid, August 2015

@postenterprise

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Dev & Ops Skills

Digital Literacy

Do Tech Better

Open Source

Open Data

other stuff

Agile

     Code

Club

Reticent

Beginners

Meditating

Gurus

seriously ... it's not, and can't be, just about guys

#ILookLikeAnEngineer

User Research

Code Academy at al - Too Scary

Want a Present Human Hand Holder

Non Technical Backgrounds - Plain English Please

Slow as Needed - Leave None  Behind

Recognise Wool Pulling Suppliers

MechanicalSympathy

A Gentle Intro to Coding

 .... with Python            .... IPython 3.4

strong interest in data science

HO, DCLG

https://goo.gl/6eQaMi

Good Things

People seem to like it, keep coming back.

Diverse group - not all hairy old men!

IPython is great for learning!

Teaching = Really Satisfying!

Challenges

 **##**## projectors !!

Maintaining interest - coding basics not as gratifying as colourful 3D graphics!

Q. Simple web framework from IPython notebook? Flask?

    print ( "cat" * 3 )

    catcatcat