This document appears to be a slide presentation about programming in Python. It introduces the speaker, Anoop Thomas Mathew, and his background in open source and Python/Django development. The presentation then discusses why programming is for everyone, how programmers think, an example of a recipe presented as code, and how programs solve real-world problems. It promotes Python as an easy-to-learn, interpreted, dynamically typed language with a large standard library and ecosystem of third-party packages. The rest of the slides provide examples of domains where Python is commonly used like web development, desktop/mobile apps, scientific computing, AI, and more. It encourages the audience to start learning Python and provides a link to example code.

1. 26th
September, 2013
DevCon 2013
Anoop Thomas Mathew
Profoundis Labs
atm@profoundis.com
Ambidextrous Python

2. @atmb4u

Co-Founder and CTO @ Profoundis Labs
 Avid user of open source since 2003
 Python and Django for last 4 years
 Contributed to linux kernel and cpython
 spoken at
➢ PyCon 2013
➢ FOSSMeet 2013
➢ PyCon 2012
➢ Fifth Elephant 2012
➢ FOSSMeet 2011
ABOUTME

3. Programming is for
EveryOne!
WHYBEAPROGRAMMER

4. Are we humans any
different?
WHOISAPROGRAMMER

5. How do we
THINK?
WHOISAPROGRAMMER

6. Can I get a Mocha?
Step 1: Coffee, Chocolate, Sugar, Milk, Heat Source
Step 2: Heat the milk
Step 3: When milk is boiled, put coffee powder
Step 4: Get the milk off the heat, put sugar
Step 5: Stir well
Step 6: Top it with Double Chocolate
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Step 7: Pour it to a glass and serve!
Enjoy!
WHOISAPROGRAMMER

7. Real world Problems
WHOISAPROGRAMMER

8. What is a program?
An easy way to solve
(real world)
problems
WHOISAPROGRAMMER

9. Learning any
Programming Language
LEARNINGTOPROGRAM

10. ➢ Logic
➢ Source
➢ Representation
➢ Operations
➢ Sink
PROGRAMMINGLANGUAGE

11. ●
Interpreted
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Dynamically Typed
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Easiest
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Human Understandable
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Awesome Community
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Availability of Libraries
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Platform Independent
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Quick Prototyping
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Ease of Extending
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Awesome!
LET'SLEARNSOMEPYTHON

12. modules ...
modules everywhere!
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

13. The Standard Library
sqlite3, time, sys, os, itertools, math,
pickle, email, collections, gzip, csv,
multiprocessing, json, re, string, md5,
urllib2, smtpd, uuid, Cookie, ast,
xml,logging ...
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

14. pip install <package name>
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

15. Web Applications
Django
Flask
Tornado
Twisted
web2py
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

16. Desktop Applications
PyQT
Tkinter
pyGTK
wxPython
pySide
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

17. Mobile Applications
Kivy
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

18. Scientific Computing
numpy
scipy
scikit-learn
pandas
ipython
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

19. Artificial Intelligence
PyBrain
NLTK
scikit-learn
libsvm
Orange
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

20. Image Processing
PIL
matplotlib
mayavi
Pillow
vPython
GIMP extensions
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

21. 3D Gaming/ Rendering
pyGame
Blender
Ogre
AutoDesk Maya
Panda3D
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

22. Data Processing
string
re
Distributed
celery
mrjob
disco
dumpo
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

23. Web Utilities
requests
urllib2
jinja2
xmpp
soaplib
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

24. Parsing Utilities
beautifulsoup
json
csv
lxml
ast
optparse
PLY
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

25. Cloud Management
libcloud
openstack
picloud
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

26. High Performance
Computing
pyCUDA
MPI
multiprocessing
ctypes
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

27. APIs and Bindings
cairo
boto
pyfestival
redispy
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

28. Yes!
It's a good time to start.
https://bitbucket.org/atmb4u/python-live
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

29. Questions?
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON

30. Thank You!
@atmb4u
AMBIDEXTROUSPYTHON