Intro lecture (general intro to programming with Python)

[ErikBjare]

• [ ] Write presentation
• [x] Decide a date and time
• [x] Book a lecture hall
• [ ] Post it in the Facebook group for D-sektionen

[exoji2e]

So before we asked you to do this @ErikBjare, we were thinking about presenting afbot that checks afbostäder for apartments and sends an email to you if any matches your criterias. You are free to do what you want, but I guess we thought this might get some traction if we name the event __from__ future import apartment, and showing it off aligns with what we want to do - show how easy it is to do cool stuff with python.

If you want, depending on time and date of the event we could share the presentation, and I could present the project. Note to self: should clean up the code, and write a proper readme before that, heh.

[ErikBjare]

@exoji2e It would be really cool to present afbot. I've been thinking of showing off at least ActivityWatch and Thankful as well (even if Thankful isn't actually using any Python).

[ErikBjare]

Here's a summary of some stuff I'd like to cover:

Note: Not all of these will be in the final talk

• Overview of talk
• Who am I?
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Labbhandledare
  • LUFOSS
  • Scala-kursen
  • ActivityWatch
  • Superuser Labs & Thankful
• Who are Code@LTH?
  • How it started
  • What we do
  • Why to volunteer
  • How to volunteer
• Storyn om hur Johan började programmera
• Python
  • Why?
  • What can you do with it?
  • How?
• Git
  • Why it's so important, why you should learn it early, why you should put everything on GitHub
• Norvig (likely to be skipped)
  • https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html
  • https://norvig.com/lispy.html
• Ideas
  • You as a programmer will be powerful, and with great power comes great responsibility.
  • Working in teams
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/90l8qn/preach_on_brother_fred
    • Bikeshedding
  • Steal others ideas
    • Pirates of Silicon Valley
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/99y3ez/smooth_criminal
  • Share your ideas, and their implementation (Open source)
    • Revolution OS
  • Myth of the genious programmer
    • Don't be afraid to share code
    • One of the best ways to become a good programmer is to do sideprojects.
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/97gzyy/so_true
    • The more you've written/learned/stolen the better a builder you will be
    • The best way to build something great: build it together.
    • The best way to find others to build great things with: share your ideas.
    • The best way to build something that lasts: open source it.
    • If you want to work on something else, you can always leave the continued development to contributors.

[exoji2e]

That's a lot! I can try to cheer the overwhelmed ones up after you have told them how much there is to learn ;)

What do you plan to cover about git and crypto currencies? I guess mentioning git, and saying that it's worth learning is a good intro to OSS and AW. And you kind of have to talk about crypto currencies after you've talked about Thankful?