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Elana Hashman - Teaching Python: The Hard Parts - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016

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Elana Hashman shares insights and strategies for teaching Python to beginners, highlighting common pitfalls in programming education.

Speaker: Elana Hashman So you want to share the love and start teaching Python? It's dangerous to go alone! In this talk, I will share some of my experience teaching Python to newcomers of all levels and issues I've encountered. I hope to raise your awareness of some of the pitfalls different beginner Python programmers encounter, giving you some tools to help you build curriculum and answer difficult student questions. Slides can be found at: speakerdeck.com/pycon2016 and github.com/PyCon/2016-slides

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