Our inspirational speech for the attendees of Django Girls Ensenada, Mexico, to encourage everyone to continue with their programming journey. Special thanks to DjangoGirlsMX, the US Consulate General of Tijuana, and Hala Ken for inviting us.

2. Yay Django Girls MX!

3. Women Have Always
Been Programmers!
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~nathanen/files/cbi-gender.pdf

4. Our Story
http://www.kzubik.cba.pl/pycon-2012-2.html

5. We Were Once Beginners

6. We Met at PyCon
Python Programming Language Conference
Photo by Chris Adams

7. Grew as Programmers
Together
(pydanny created django-uni-form,
its predecessor)

8. Learned So Much We
Wrote a Book

9. …and the Book Kept
Growing and Growing

10. What’s Great About
Django is that it’s
Written in Python
One of the most powerful programming languages
out there.

11. 10 Cool Things You Can Do
With Python

12. 10. Write the Next
Dropbox
Python is powerful enough to power Dropbox.

13. 10. Write the Next
Dropbox
Python creator Guido van
Rossum works for Dropbox.
Notice his “Python is for
Girls” t-shirt.
photo by Tendenci.org

14. 9. Teach Kids to Code
You can use Python
to teach your kids
how to code.
That’s how simple
and well-designed
Python is.

15. Python is used in MIT’s Introduction to Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science courses
8. Teach MIT
Students to Code

16. 8. Teach MIT
Students to Code
My first Python program was an HP iPaq app to navigate around
the MIT Stata Center with speech-to-text (2004)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joiseyshowaa/1279750389

17. 7. Make or Lose Millions
You can write Python code to automatically
buy and sell stocks with real money.

18. 7. Make or Lose Millions
Tools like Quantopian let you take on Wall Street
with just a few lines of Python code.

19. 6. Make 3D Printed
Jewelry
I used Blender 3D Python scripting to make this pendant.

20. 5. Make 2D Art
I was a professional artist
for a few years, with a
studio practice in SF.
!
I created some of my
artwork with Python code
(PIL, PyCairo).

21. 4. GIS
http://www.macwright.org/2012/10/31/gis-with-python-shapely-fiona.html
Shapely for GIS analysis.
Based on GEOS.
Fiona to read/write GIS data.
Powerful, free Python tools for
geospatial programming.

22. 4. GIS
You can also write Python scripts for Esri’s
ArcGIS platform.

23. 3. Sound Analysis/
Generation
Represent & analyze sound waves in time and
frequency domains.
https://github.com/calebmadrigal/FourierTalkOSCON
And make funny noises.

24. 2. Mobile/
Touchscreen Apps
With Kivy, you can write apps in Python for mobile and
touchscreen devices.

25. 1. Scientific Data
Analysis
Need a Python library for transient absorption spectroscopy?
Yep, there’s one for that.
http://www.photonfactory.auckland.ac.nz/en/photon-factory/python-based-transient-absorption-spectroscopy-data-analysis.html

26. 1. Scientific Data
Analysis
PyTrA is a project from the Photon Factory laser facility of the
University of Auckland, New Zealand.
http://www.photonfactory.auckland.ac.nz/en/photon-factory/python-based-transient-absorption-spectroscopy-data-analysis.html

27. 4 Cool Things You Can Do
With Django

28. 4. Build the Next
Instagram

29. Django Powers Instagram

30. 3. Build the Next Pinterest

31. 2. Build Pluggable
Django Packages
Popular, Powerful Django HTML Forms Library

32. Spacebook
A Library Story

33. Spacebook
A Library Story
• NASA Social network
• Profiles
• Photos, Blog, Groups
• 80+ Forms!

34. All 80+ Forms
weren’t
accessible
to the visually
disabled
Spacebook
A Library Story

35. Spacebook
A Library Story
Idea:
!
Program
a Shortcut

36. django-uni-form
https://github.com/pydanny/django-uni-form/commit/
e0f02cb9120f794a17bec297f0b1778f066a9168

37. Grew From There
• Quickly in use at every NASA center
• Used by major news sites around the world
• Added template tags
• Add buttons and styles
• Converted to bootstrap
• Much more

38. django-uni-form
django-crispy-forms

39. What’s Awesome
1. Library started in my first month of
Django.
2. Open Source meant I had help fixing
my mistakes.
3. Anything we do as beginners has
potential.

40. 1. Build Whatever
You Want

41. https://www.flickr.com/photos/venosdale/6110385718

42. Programming
is a
very useful
superpower!
Or at least
more useful
than these…
https://www.threadless.com/designs/useless_superpowers

43. @audreyr
@pydanny
Audrey Roy Greenfeld
Engineer & Principal, Cartwheel Web
Daniel Roy Greenfeld
Engineer, Platform @ Eventbrite
@audreyr @pydanny