Warm Greetings To The Free Software Community, ILUG Cochin (www.ilug-cochin.org) is holding its regular meeting for this month on Sunday, 22th February 2009 (4th Sunday of every month).
The Details are as follows Date : 22/02/2009, Sunday Time : 2pm - 5:30pm Venue : Internet Club IInd Floor, AMI Trust Bldg, Broadway Enclave Broadway, Kochi-682031 i.e. Behind Allappat Super Shoppe, On top of SBT Treasury wing, Technical Presentations 1. Command Line Applications and Shell Scripting 2. Learning Programming with Python. A Map showing the venue is available at : http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/31/ Feel Free to call the numbers below for any further information Tel:+91 9995717112 ( Coordinator ) Tel:+91 484 2374862 ( Venue ) Tel:+91 484 4025077 ( Venue ) Details :: Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement. Discussion on Free Software Licenses, Open Source Software. We start of with our regular discussion on Free Software and related topics. This is important for new users. Technical presentation 1 : Command Line Applications & Shell Scripting We continue our initiative of grooming teachers to teach Free Software effectively in Schools. This month also we have planned sessions that would help teachers in this regard. http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/2008-December/003368.html http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/2009-January/003461.html The media has also been supporting our campaign for bringing teachers closer to the Free Software Community. http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/26/stories/2008122650810200.htm http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/23/stories/2009012357890200.htm http://www.hindu.com/2009/02/12/stories/2009021250610200.htm Last month we had some presentations on the command line Interface and its possibilities. This month we continue this by teaching few command line based applications like Mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu). We will also talk about automating command line prompt based activities using Shell scripting. Technical Session 2 : Learning programming with Python. www.python.org Python is one of the most versatile languages of the modern era. This has mainly due to the vast collection of modules built by the community. Python has been used in situations ranging from real time applications to simulation programs. From the website ""Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code."" Python is one very useful language that has vast possibilities in the field of education. Although programming is taught to students in the curriculum, Python can be taught as a full fledged programming language since its very easy to learn the basics. We will touch upon the following basic elements with respect to the second session : - Programming Languages - What and How - Python as a language - Basic Python program - Python Modules - Python libraries and extensions - Possibilities of teaching Python in Schools. We will address the common difficulties faced by teachers and provide guidelines for dealing with issues. We expect a better turnout of teachers for this meeting. We have already invited IT Coordinators of various schools. All the members in Mailing List are also requested to spread the word about this meeting among the teachers from all streams. It may be worth to forward this mail to other lists as well. Meeting posters are available at : http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/50/1/ We hope more people from the community will make it to the meeting. This will enable a very exciting interaction with the teachers and free software community. We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting!!! Hoping to meet you all on Sunday Thank You --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
