Python para Zumbis atinge 35 mil alunos

O que Python tem para atrair mais de 35 mil inscritos num curso? Python para Zumbis é o primeiro MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) em português e visa ensinar programação para iniciantes. É uma iniciativa de três pessoas que não contaram com nenhum recurso financeiro, além do próprio investimento pessoal. Todo material é licenciado como Creative Commons Share Alike, permitindo a docentes de outras instituições fazerem reuso dos slides, listas de exercícios, etc. Nesta palestra você não verá nada de teoria, veremos os códigos que mais fizeram a alegria zumbi: hackear dados públicos para calcular os gastos da Copa do Mundo, games clássicos diretamente no navegador, metaprogramação 42 (resposta para tudo), pegar os resultados dos jogos da copa com poucas linhas e muito mais. Se quiser acompanhar, deixe Python 3 e Pygame instalados em seu computador para acompanhar com links do github. O autor deu 40 palestras e minicursos em 2014 sobre Python, devido à divulgação obtida pelo Python para Zumbis, no Brasil e pelo mundo afora.

1. Python, thenext
Braziliangeneration

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

3. WhyPython?
"ResultsshowthatmanyaspectsoftraditionalC-
stylesyntax,whileithasinfluencedagenerationof
programmers,exhibitsproblemsintermsof
usabilityfornovices".
"PerlandJavadidnotaccuracyratessignificantly
higherthanalanguagewithrandomlygenerated
keywords"
Andreas Stefikand Susanna Siebert: "An Empirical Investigation into
Programming Language Syntax." ACM Transactions on Computing
Education, 13(4), Nov. 2013.

4. Themostcommonfaultincomputerclassesisto
emphasizetherulesofspecificprogramming
languages,insteadoftoemphasizethealgorithms
thatarebeingexpressedinthoselanguages.D.Knuth
interviewatPeopleofACM,June,2014.

5. http://www.python.org/psf/diversity/
“Wewantourcommunitytobemore
diverse: whoeveryouare, and
whateverourbackground, we
welcomeyou”

6. Diversity
Diversityin Python Communityisreal
2014: 1/3 talksPyConbywomen
2015: 1/3 talksPyConbywomen
2015: 1/3 talksDjangoConbywomen
2015: 7 women, 4 men(newlyelected
PSF board)

7. http://pyladies.com
WeLove Python
http://djangogirls.org

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

9. Goal: 25% non American 2015
WeLove Python

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

12. Python for Zombies

13. Summary
in 18months
3folks + zerobudget =
30.000enrollments
of comparison: one university professor reaches 3000 students throughout his career

14. Summary
Some girls that are former students have even
created the first PyLadieschapters in Brazil.

15. Last year: 40 talks and workshops in 9 countries

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

17. Goal
Teachingprogrammingfor everybody, for
free, in portuguese(only5% ofBrazilian
peopleare fluent in English
1
)
1. IBOPE (2012)

18. http://pycursos.com/python-para-zumbis/
FirstportugueseprogrammingMOOC

19. MOOC Menu

20. MOOC Videos

21. MOOC Forum

22. Answers
Rightanswer Upvote Down vote comment

23. Differences from other MOOCs?

24. Community initiative
Not of my university

25. 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 monthwe will have the first
MOOC for teaching programming in Portuguese.
This is the website for pre-registration…”.
Marcel's announcement at Campus Party Brazil.

26. My first reaction
Because I had nothing ready

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

28. Nextsweeks
I recorded the lessons at:
1.Fast food restaurants, airports, FATEC
classrooms
2.Travels to conferences
PS: theBoomNoise Canceling Headset is really useful

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

30. Small 4min videos without quizzes

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

32. 12 years old girls code
To promote diversity

33. 30.000 enrolledin oneyearandhalf

34. overcomedwithgoodhumor
Some availabilityproblems

35. TWD Portugal Fanpage

36. Some data
•Only three people:
–Fernando Masanori (videos)
–GilenoFilho(DjangoDev)
–Marcel Caraciolo(Data Scientist)
•Zerobudget: no grants, no investments received, no
crowdfunding
•WiththecollaborationofthewholeBrazilianPython
Community
•30.000 enrollmentsin oneyearandhalfofactivity
•Coursecompletion: 8.91%

37. Formerstudents: PyLadiesBrazil

38. FirstPyLadiesEvent(100+) 80 women

39. RuPyNatal (300+) 1/3 women
Increaseondiversityin otherconferences

40. CodeGirl 2 Natal (700+) 60% women
Increaseondiversityin otherconferences

41. CodeGirl 3 Speaker

42. Cecilia Tanaka (lawyer)
Erika Campos (journalist)
Patrícia Simões (phycicist)
PyLadiesSão Paulo Cofounders

43. FirstMeetup: open tonon CS areas
Fullclassin 24h (62 waitinglist)

44. 20 hours course: fullin 12h (180 waitinglist)

45. Use case: UniversityofSão Paulo
A thousand engineers are using the videos

46. Formerstudent: YsaniKalapalo
NowfirstBrazilianindigenousatHarvard

47. Formerstudent: Carlos Glória
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrHHsPaE_WA

48. Zombie's Operating System
63%
26%
6%
3% 2%
Windows
Linux
Mac
Android
IOS

49. How did you find the course
32%
31%
10%
10%
Facebook
Friends refer
Search engines
Discussion lists

50. Whereare thezombies?
PS: USA 1.2%, Portugal 0.9%,
Argentina 0.07%, Paraguai
0.06%

51. MassiveCodingDojo
Nitrous.IO (CollabMode) + HangoutOnAir withLive Q&A

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

53. K-12 CEDET Decolar

54. CEDET DecolarGame
https://gist.github.com/10198873
Made by a 12 year old girl

55. CriptoCEDET Decolar
Madebyanother12 yearoldgirl

56. 42 OOP

57. 42 is stronger than the beast
https://gist.github.com/7034743

58. Facebook Hackaton2013 (Selective Test)
https://gist.github.com/5620075
Selection Test 2013 Facebook HackatonGiven 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-thelement from the selected list. Egn = 3 and k = 5 ['0 b111 ', '0 b11', '0
B101 ', '0 b110', '0 b1 ', '0 b10', '0 b100 ', '0 b0'] fifth element '0 b1 '

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

60. Interface GUI
https://gist.github.com/4961824
ByLuciano Ramalho

61. World Cup
https://gist.github.com/fmasanori/1288160dad16cc473a53
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.
.

62. HackingFacebookFriendsPhotos
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer

63. HackingFacebookFriendsPhotos
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer
Getthetoken
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer

64. https://gist.github.com/4684752
HackingFacebookFriendsPhotos

65. Android
Wallpaper

66. Android
Wallpaper

67. https://gist.github.com/fmasanori/a428ef783211b0ffdee1
2014 World Cup Costs

68. https://gist.github.com/fmasanori/fc0e98c8c486be80d5a5
How many schools there are in Brazil, operating
without water, electricity and sewerage?

69. •One year == 40 talks (Python for Zombies
MOOC related topics) and workshops
•Montevideo, Montreal, Florence, Berlin,
London, Amsterdam, Madrid, Paris
•A lotoffriendsallover theworld!
Personal benefits

70. A lot of new friends…

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

73. •“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, MatoGrosso, Pernambuco, Rio Grande
do Norte, Sergipe…
Benefits for Python Community

74. •Learning analytics
•Some A/B testing
•DistributedLeadershipexperiments
•Open edX: http://code.edx.org/
Future

76. Don't think too much
Just do it

77. Questions?
http://about.me/fmasanori
[email protected]
Slides: bit.ly/python-for-zombies