[Courses] Beginning programming course

[Pragya Singh]

I am really excited .Friday works for me too ..:)

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Lucky Lady <needlesschatter at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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 :)
> >
> >
> > Kendra Murphy
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: courses-bounces at linuxchix.org
> > [mailto:courses-bounces at linuxchix.org]
> > 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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