This document discusses the popularity and diversity of the Python programming language. It notes that Python has become the most popular introductory teaching language at top US universities due to its usability for novices. It then discusses efforts to promote diversity and inclusion within the Python community through organizations like PyLadies and Django Girls. Specific examples are provided of how a free online Python course in Portuguese grew to over 30,000 students and helped foster new local programming communities in Brazil.

1. 1) Java 2) C Family 3) Python

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3. Python: quem usa

4. Python: quem usa

5. Python: quem usa

10. Python: quem usa

14. Why Python?
http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-the-most-popular-
introductory-teaching-language-at-top-us-universities/fulltext

15. Why Python?
"Results show that many aspects of traditional C-
style syntax, while it has influenced a generation of
programmers, exhibits problems in terms of
usability for novices".
"Perl and Java did not accuracy rates significantly
higher than a language with randomly generated
keywords"
Andreas Stefik and Susanna Siebert: "An Empirical Investigation into
Programming Language Syntax." ACM Transactions on Computing
Education, 13(4), Nov. 2013.

16. The most common fault in computer classes is to
emphasize the rules of specific programming
languages, instead of to emphasize the algorithms
that are being expressed in those languages. D. Knuth
interview at People of ACM, June, 2014.

17. http://www.python.org/psf/diversity/
“We want our community to be more
diverse: whoever you are, and
whatever our background, we
welcome you”

18. https://www.djangoproject.com/diversity/
"We welcome you. You may wear a baby
sling, hijab, a kippah, leather, an XXXL t-
shirt, a pentacle, a political badge, a
rainbow, a rosary, tattoos, or something we
can only dream of. You may carry a guitar or
walking cane or a 15 year old laptop.
Conservative or liberal, libertarian or
socialist…"

19. Inclusion in numbers
• PyCon talks by women: (2011: 1%),
(2012: 7%), (2013: 15%), (2014/15: 33%),
(2016: 40%)
• DjangoCon talks by women: (2015: 33%),
(2016: 40%)
• DjangoConEu talks by women: 50%
• PyCon Brazil 2016 talks by women: 33%
• PSF board 2015: 7 women, 4 men
• PSF board 2016: 7 women, 4 men

20. http://softwarelivre.org/fisl17/programacao/pyladies
FISL17 PyLadies
Track, Friday, July 15

21. “An entire track with
only women speakers...”
“...with a twelve year old
PyLady (Larissa Oliva)”
Photo by Ana Carolina (FISL17)
Larissa Talk at FISL17 (portuguese)

22. Manuel Kaufmann and Johanna Sanchez

23. Argentina en Python
http://argentinaenpython.com.ar/en/

24. Django Girls Organizers in South America

25. There is no better recipe to be
happy, than to go through your
life doing good to the others

26. http://pyladies.com
We Love Python
http://djangogirls.org

27. Each week on our blog we try to introduce two badass
ladies who use Python or Django to highlight their work.
What about you?
http://djangogirls.org/story/

29. Build a community == Unity in diversity

30. Unity + Diversity = community

31. import community as Nepal

32. import community as Uganda

33. import community as Iran

34. A good sword just does not make a good
samurai, not just use Python

35. Python for Zombies

36. Summary
in 2 years
3 folks + zero budget =
42.000 enrollments
of comparison: one university professor reaches 3000 students throughout his career

37. Summary
Some girls that are former students have even
created the first PyLadies chapters in Brazil.

38. +100 talks and workshops in 13 countries

39. Django Girls Namibia

40. I love teaching
CS Professor at FATEC
https://about.me/fmasanori
http://pycursos.com/python-para-zumbis/

41. Goal
Teaching programming for everybody, for
free, in portuguese (only 5% of Brazilian
people are fluent in English1)
1. IBOPE (2012)

42. http://pycursos.com/python-para-zumbis/
First portuguese programming MOOC

43. MOOC Menu

44. MOOC Videos

45. MOOC Forum

46. Answers
Right answer Up vote Down vote comment

47. Differences from other MOOCs?

48. Community initiative
Not of my university

49. Cronology
• November 2012: “We need a MOOC to teach
Python” Marcel Caraciolo (president of Python
Brazil Association)
• My answer: “Cool, it will be ready in two years”
• July 2013: “Next month we will have the first
MOOC for teaching programming in Portuguese.
This is the website for pre-registration…”.
Marcel's announcement at Campus Party Brazil.

50. My first reaction
Because I had nothing ready

51. But we did it
One month to:
1.Design the entire course
2.Get the first week videos recorded
PS: We took advantage of a platform that already existed

52. Nexts weeks
I recorded the lessons at:
1.Fast food restaurants, airports, FATEC
classrooms
2.Travels to conferences
PS: theBoom Noise Canceling Headset is really useful

53. Python 3
• Convenient to use accents in foreign languages
– Ex.: opção = 42
• More natural division
– 1 / 2 results 0.5

54. Small 4min videos without quizzes

55. A huge compilation of exercises
• CodingBat
• Google Python Class
• Google Developer Day
• Cracking Code Interview
• Facebook Hackaton
• Edx MIT
• IME – USP

56. 12 years old girls code
To promote diversity

57. 30.000 enrolled in one year and half

58. overcomed with good humor
Some availability problems

59. TWD Portugal Fanpage

60. Some data
• Only three people:
– Fernando Masanori (videos)
– Gileno Filho (Django Dev)
– Marcel Caraciolo (Data Scientist)
• Zero budget: no grants, no investments received, no
crowdfunding
• With the collaboration of the whole Brazilian Python
Community
• 30.000 enrollments in one year and half
• Course completion: 8.91%

61. Former students: PyLadies Brazil

62. First PyLadies Event (100+) 80 women

63. RuPy Natal (300+) 1/3 women
Increase on diversity in other conferences

64. Code Girl 2 Natal (700+) 60% women
Increase on diversity in other conferences

65. Code Girl 3 Speaker

66. Cecilia Tanaka (lawyer)
Erika Campos (journalist)
Patrícia Simões (phycicist)
PyLadies São Paulo Cofounders

67. First Meetup: open to non CS areas
Full class in 24h (62 waiting list)

68. 20 hours course: full in 12h (180 waiting list)

69. Use case: University of São Paulo
A thousand engineers are using the videos

70. Former student: Ysani Kalapalo
Now first Brazilian indigenous at Harvard

71. Former student: Carlos Glória
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrHHsPaE_WA

72. Former student: Leandro Oliveira

73. Former Protheus Helpdesk

74. Protheus Customization with Python
$1.000/m to $4.000/m

75. Former student: Luiza Nunes

76. Unicef U-Report

77. Topics
• Female genital mutilation (FGM)
• Outbreaks of disease
• Safe water
• Early marriage
• Education
• Health and inflation

79. Talk is cheap.
Show me the code.
Linus Torvalds

80. K-12 CEDET Decolar

81. CEDET Decolar Game
https://gist.github.com/10198873
Made by a 12 year old girl

82. Cripto CEDET Decolar
Made by another 12 year old girl

83. 42 OOP

84. 42 is stronger than the beast
https://gist.github.com/7034743

85. json object_hook
https://gist.github.com/5620404

86. Facebook Hackaton 2013 (Selective Test)
https://gist.github.com/5620075
Selection Test 2013 Facebook Hackaton Given two positive integers n and k, generate all
binary integer between 0 and 2 ** n-1, inclusive. These binaries will be drawn in descending
order according to the number of existing 1s. If there is a tie choose the lowest numerical
value. Return the k-th element from the selected list. Eg n = 3 and k = 5 ['0 b111 ', '0 b11', '0
B101 ', '0 b110', '0 b1 ', '0 b10', '0 b100 ', '0 b0'] fifth element '0 b1 '

87. Quicksort: “The beauty will save the code”
https://gist.github.com/4673057

88. Interface GUI
https://gist.github.com/4961824
By Luciano Ramalho

89. World Cup
https://gist.github.com/fmasanori/1288160dad16cc473a53
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90. Hacking Facebook Friends Photos
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer

91. Hacking Facebook Friends Photos
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer
Get the token
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer

92. https://gist.github.com/4684752
Hacking Facebook Friends Photos

93. Android
Wallpaper

94. Android
Wallpaper

95. • One year == 40 talks (Python for Zombies
MOOC related topics) and workshops
• Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Florence,
Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Madrid, Paris
• A lot of friends all over the world!
Personal benefits

96. A lot of new friends…

98. • Visibility
• Flipped Classrooms: more time for Coding
Dojos and exercises
• Second chance for students to review the
lessons
Benefits for my university

99. • “Trojan Horse” to enter in many new places
• Material for tutorials in local user groups and
also for professors to teach CS1 with Python
• Low cost example of how to spread the
community: 3 folks that made an impact in
30.000 in one year and half
• We multiply the number of local Python Day
events: Alagoas, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Goiás,
Piauí, Mato Grosso, Pernambuco, Rio Grande
do Norte, Sergipe…
Benefits for Python Community

100. • Learning analytics
• Some A/B testing
• Distributed Leadership experiments
• Open edX: http://code.edx.org/
Future

102. Don't think too much
Just do it

103. Questions?
http://about.me/fmasanori
fmasanori@gmail.com
Slides: bit.ly/python-for-zombies