On Mar 26, 6:35 am, "Paddy O'Loughlin" <patrick.olough...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > As our resident python advocate, I've been asked by my team leader to > give a bit of a presentation as an introduction to python to the rest > of our department. > It'll be less than an hour, with time for taking questions at the end. > > There's not going to be a whole lot of structure to it. First, I'm > going to open up a python terminal and show them how the interpreter > works and a few basic syntax things and then a file .py files (got to > show them that python's indenting structure is not something to be > afraid of :P). I think I'll mostly show things in the order that they > appear in the python tutorial (http://docs.python.org/tutorial/). >
Shameless plug: Show them the Python tutorial in a regular browser window ... and then switch tab to one in which you have the same tutorial loaded from Crunchy (http://code.google.code/p/crunchy) and go through it (interpreter and all) right from the browser's window. I've had some really positive reactions from long-term Pythonistas when I did that one-on-one two years ago. Then perhaps use IPython as a terminal window and show them other cool stuff that people have mentioned. André -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
