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Soon, Pradeep and myself took over the stage and we started asking the students about what their previous programming experience and what they are interested in. Almost all students knew C++ and didn’t know Perl. So, yaay! They hadn’t been spoilt by Perl and we knew it would be exciting to introduce them to a clean language like Python to C++ students. | Soon, Pradeep and myself took over the stage and we started asking the students about what their previous programming experience and what they are interested in. Almost all students knew C++ and didn’t know Perl. So, yaay! They hadn’t been spoilt by Perl and we knew it would be exciting to introduce them to a clean language like Python to C++ students. | ||
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**Other Blog entries from Swaroop | |||
[http://www.swaroopch.info/archives/2005/01/09/python-workshop-at-nit-calicut/ Python workshop at NIT Calicut] | |||
[http://www.swaroopch.info/archives/2005/01/28/talk-at-floss-meet-tomorrow/ Talk at FLOSS Meet tomorrow ] | |||
[http://www.swaroopch.info/archives/2005/02/01/trek-at-thusharagiri/ Trek at Thusharagiri] | |||
*[http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:vIWMpeG54LkJ:btbytes.com/codecrumbs/27/python-in-calicut+&hl=hi&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox Pradeep Kishore Gowda] | *[http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:vIWMpeG54LkJ:btbytes.com/codecrumbs/27/python-in-calicut+&hl=hi&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox Pradeep Kishore Gowda] | ||
Revision as of 13:09, 28 February 2006
GLUGC FLOSS Meet 05
It had 4 speakers and 3 talks. More than 180 delegates showed up and it was a great success.
Blogs
[...] I started with an introduction of FOSS, and ended with an overview of FOSS in India. Hopefully, I will have made things clear enough to people to get them excited and (more importantly) involved. Lots of questions after the talk, so I am hopeful that the talk was useful to the 100+ people in the audience. [...]
[...] Soon, Pradeep and myself took over the stage and we started asking the students about what their previous programming experience and what they are interested in. Almost all students knew C++ and didn’t know Perl. So, yaay! They hadn’t been spoilt by Perl and we knew it would be exciting to introduce them to a clean language like Python to C++ students. [...]
- Other Blog entries from Swaroop
Python workshop at NIT Calicut
[...] I’m back from Calicut after giving a talk on Python @ NIT Calicut’s Free/Libre Open Source software meet. Me and Swaroop talked about Python for nearly 3 hours. Going by the number of questions that were asked and the students approaching us to talk in the lunch break, I’m sure there are a new bunch of Pythonistas in Calicut :) This was my largest audience so far with nearly 150 people comprising of students and staff. [...]
[...] Back from the Floss meet at NIT, Calicut where I gave a presentation on BSD titled - The Devil's Side of OpenSource. At the start of the talk there were < 5 in the audience who were aware of BSD, the number should now be > 125 at least. :) [...]