Prof. Poonam Kankariya from the Department of Computer Science at Pratibha College of Commerce & Computer Studies organized a course on Recent Trends in IT. The agenda included an introduction to Python, the difference between programming and scripting languages, the history and applications of Python, why people use Python, how to install it, a sample code, how Python code executes, and who currently uses Python. The document also covered Python keywords, comments, and multi-line comments.