Python, the next Brazilian generation

Python for Zombies MOOC is the first brazilian MOOC to teach programming. With a team made up of three folks and no budget, we have reached 20.000 enrollments in one year of activity. After having taken the course, some former girl students even founded the first PyLadies groups in Brazil. There are a lot of Massive Open Online Courses that teach programming in Python (Coursera, Edx, Udacity), but only 5% of the Brazilian people are fluent in English. For this reason, the Brazilian Python community took the initiative to develop the first MOOC to teach programming in Portuguese. The initiative of this MOOC does not come from the University where I am a professor.
InfoQ presentation at TDC: http://www.infoq.com/br/presentations/python-para-zumbis-primeiro-mooc
Portuguese vídeo at Campus Party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTUZYywZfhw
English Vídeo at EuroPython: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egjzOPTvDMI
Spanish vídeo at PyConUy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLPz6cI2t4Q

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1. Python, the next Brazilian generation
2. Why Python?
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. http://www.python.org/psf/diversity/ We Love Python
6. Goal: 20% women 2015 Fact: 1/3 of PyConUS 2014 speaker’s! We Love Python
7. http://pyladies.com We Love Python http://djangogirls.org
8. 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/
9. Goal: 25% non American 2015 We Love Python
11. A good sword just does not make a good samurai, not just use Python
12. Python for Zombies
13. Summary With a team made up of three folks and no budget, we have reached 20.000 enrollments in one year of activity
14. Summary Some girls that are former students have even created the first two PyLadies chapters in Brazil.
15. One year: 40 talks and workshops
16. I love teaching CS Professor at FATEC K-12 volunteer at weekends I like to speak. A lot. http://about.me/fmasanori
17. Goal Teaching programming for everybody, for free, in portuguese (only 5% of Brazilian people are fluent in English1) 1. IBOPE (2012)
18. http://pycursos.com/python-para-zumbis/ First portuguese programming MOOC
19. MOOC Menu
20. MOOC Videos
21. MOOC Forum
22. Answers Right answer Up vote 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 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.
26. My first reaction Because I had nothing ready
27. 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
28. 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
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 • Edx MIT • IME – USP
32. 12 years old girls code To promote diversity
33. 20.000 enrolled in one year
34. overcomed with good humor Some availability problems
35. TWD Portugal Fanpage
36. 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 • 20.000 enrollments in one year of activity • Course completion: 8.91%
37. Former students: PyLadies Brazil
38. First PyLadies Event (100+) 80 women
39. RuPy Natal (300+) 1/3 women Increase on diversity in other conferences
40. Code Girl 2 Natal (700+) 60% women Increase on diversity in other conferences
41. Use case: University of São Paulo A thousand engineers are using the videos
42. Former student: Ysani Kalapalo Now first Brazilian indigenous at Harvard
43. Zombie's Operating System 63% 26% 6% 3% 2% Windows Linux Mac Android IOS
44. How did you find the course 32% 31% 10% 10% Facebook Friends refer Search engines Discussion lists
45. Course experience 59% 34% 3% 5% Very Pleased Pleased Unsatisfied Gave up the course
46. Video Length 85% 12% 1% Right time Short Long
47. Exercises 39% 47% 6% 3% 5% Very Pleased Pleased Neutral Unsatisfied
48. Where are the zombies? PS: USA 1.2%, Portugal 0.9%, Argentina 0.07%, Paraguai 0.06%
49. Massive Coding Dojo Nitrous.IO (Collab Mode) + Hangout On Air with Live Q&A
50. Talk is cheap. Show me the code. Linus Torvalds
51. K-12 CEDET Decolar
52. CEDET Decolar Game https://gist.github.com/10198873 Made by a 12 year old girl
53. Cripto CEDET Decolar Made by another 12 year old girl
54. 42 OOP
55. 42 is stronger than the beast https://gist.github.com/7034743
56. json object_hook https://gist.github.com/5620404
57. 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 '
58. Quicksort: “The beauty will save the code” https://gist.github.com/4673057
59. Interface GUI https://gist.github.com/4961824 By Luciano Ramalho
60. World Cup https://gist.github.com/fmasanori/1288160dad16cc473a53 . . .
61. Hacking Facebook Friends Photos https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer
62. Hacking Facebook Friends Photos https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer Get the token https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer
63. https://gist.github.com/4684752 Hacking Facebook Friends Photos
64. Android Wallpaper
65. Android Wallpaper
66. • One year == 40 talks (Python for Zombies MOOC related topics) and workshops • Montevideo, Montreal, Florence, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Madrid, Paris • A lot of friends all over the world! Personal benefits
68. • Visibility • Flipped Classrooms: more time for Coding Dojos and exercises • Second chance for students to review the lessons Benefits for my university
69. • “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 20.000 in one year • 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
70. • Learning analytics • Some A/B testing • Distributed Leadership experiments • Open edX: http://code.edx.org/ Future
72. Don't think too much Just do it
73. Questions? http://about.me/fmasanori fmasanori@gmail.com Slides: bit.ly/python-for-zombies