Now I’m a ,

or am I?Leona So @lwyso 18th Feb 2016

- My background- What is Django Girls?- Django Girls Manchester workshop- Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and Cons- What’s next?- Discussion

- My background- What is Django Girls?- Django Girls Manchester workshop- Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and Cons- What’s next?- Discussion

My background

Little experience inprogramming

Know a bit of C++, Matlab, (years ago),

and Python…

Not working in computing industry

DjangoGirlsCovPyConUK

My background - DjangoGirlsCov

Command line

Django

Git

ORM

CSS

html

Python

- My background- What is Django Girls?- Django Girls Manchester workshop- Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and Cons- What’s next?- Discussion

What is Django Girls?

- My background- What is Django Girls?- Django Girls Manchester workshop- Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and Cons- What’s next?- Discussion

Django Girls Manchester workshop

60+ applications

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10 awesome coaches

Django Girls Manchester workshop

Django Girls Manchester workshop

Django Girls Manchester workshop

- My background- What is Django Girls?- Django Girls Manchester workshop- Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and Cons- What’s next?- Discussion

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and Cons

Learn coding?Create a blog?

Question to self:What is the aim of completing the tutorial?

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and Cons

Create a blog

Question to self:What is the aim of completing the tutorial?

Learn codingAchieved?

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and ConsFeedback from attendees

“I feel very motivated to try to enter the sector now, having been surrounded by positive, generous and encouraging people for a day.” – mentee #1

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and ConsFeedback from attendees

“I feel very motivated to try to enter the sector now, having been surrounded by positive, generous and encouraging people for a day.” – mentee #1

“I actually completed the tutorial the next day.” – mentee #2

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and ConsFeedback from attendees

“I feel very motivated to try to enter the sector now, having been surrounded by positive, generous and encouraging people for a day.” – mentee #1

“I actually completed the tutorial the next day.” – mentee #2

“… intensive introduction to coding and I was interested in the things I learned about the individual programmes …” – mentee #3

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and ConsFeedback from attendees

“I feel very motivated to try to enter the sector now, having been surrounded by positive, generous and encouraging people for a day.” – mentee #1

“I actually completed the tutorial the next day.” – mentee #2

“… intensive introduction to coding and I was interested in the things I learned about the individual programmes …” – mentee #3

“I thought it was well executed and the course material was great.” – mentor #1

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and ConsUsers at workshop

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and ConsUsers – ideally?

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and ConsIn general

C:\Users\Name\djangogirls> myvenv\Scripts\activate

Error: execution of scripts is disabled on this system

C:\WINDOWS\system32> Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and ConsIn general

Are we friends?

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and ConsMy favourite(s)

- Great introduction

- Many links for further reading

- Error messages explained thoroughly

- …but not everything explained

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and Cons‘overheard’ others

- Commands for all three OS on same page

- Copy and paste culture

- Misconception: create a virtual environment for every project (Not necessary the case)

- Should git be included in the workshop?- (it’s a great tool, but…)

- Anymore?

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and ConsTechnically – my favourites!

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Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and ConsTechnically – my favourites!

$ $ cd /home/<your_name>/Desktop$ cd /home/<leona>/Desktop

Learn from mistakes!

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and ConsTechnically – my favourites!

$ $ cd /home/<your_name>/Desktop$ cd /home/<leona>/Desktop

What does this mean?

Learn from mistakes!

Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and ConsWhat have I learnt?

Command line

Django

Git

ORM

CSS

html

Python

- My background- What is Django Girls?- Django Girls Manchester workshop- Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and Cons- What’s next?- Discussion

What’s next?Would be better if…

- Learn more about:- Class- Modules- Models- ORM and Querysets

- Create things other than blog (too)

What’s next?And for me…

- My background- What is Django Girls?- Django Girls Manchester workshop- Django Girls Tutorial – Pros and Cons- What’s next?- Discussion

Discussion

Now I’m a ,

or am I?Leona So 18th Feb

2016