[Courses] Beginning programming course

[Lucky Lady]

Count me in too.

Thanks

DaLy

--- On Mon, 6/13/11, Murphy, Kendra <Kendra.Murphy at astrazeneca.com> wrote:

> From: Murphy, Kendra <Kendra.Murphy at astrazeneca.com>
> Subject: Re: [Courses] Beginning programming course
> To: "Akkana Peck" <akkana at shallowsky.com>, courses at linuxchix.org
> Date: Monday, June 13, 2011, 2:55 PM
> I am also definitely interested in
> the beginners course as well, and as others have said, thank
> you so kindly for volunteering your time :) 
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: courses-bounces at linuxchix.org
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> On Behalf Of Akkana Peck
> Sent: Saturday, 11 June 2011 2:07 PM
> To: courses at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [Courses] Beginning programming course
> 
> Looks like there's plenty of interest in a beginning
> programming course,
> and Python is winning by a big margin (though people who'd
> prefer to
> learn Javascript, it's not too late to jump in and change
> the vote).
> 
> Okay, I'll do it. I'll start in a week or two. Next
> question:
> assuming I post weekly lessons, which day would be better,
> Wednesday, Friday or Sunday? Friday is a little easier for
> me, but
> lessons might get lost in the "Whee, it's a weekend, don't
> want to
> think about learning stuff".
> 
> This will be an email course run right here on the Courses
> list --
> I'd love to see us use Moodle for something some day, but I
> don't
> have time right now to be the guinea pig.
> 
> The course probably won't run very long -- I'm thinking
> four or five
> weekly lessons to start. That should get everybody fairly
> comfortable
> with using Python and with basic programming concepts.
> After that, we can see how things are going and whether
> Jacinta has
> started the Perl course yet, and decide whether to continue
> with Python.
> 
> There will be homework.  You should plan to do the
> homework: you
> can't learn how to program just from reading what somebody
> writes
> about it. I promise I won't load you down with anything
> super hard
> or time consuming.
> 
>     ...Akkana
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