Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
How Python rises in Namibia
Search
Ngazetungue Muheue
August 09, 2019
Programming
0
33
How Python rises in Namibia
This is my slide for PyCon Africa 2019
Ngazetungue Muheue
August 09, 2019
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Ngazetungue Muheue
See All by Ngazetungue Muheue
Go Far, Go together With Python
muheuenga20
0
56
djangowebapi.pdf
muheuenga20
0
68
Dockerizing a Python Django project
muheuenga20
0
53
What Python means in Namibia
muheuenga20
0
23
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
Python型ヒント完全ガイド 初心者でも分かる、現代的で実践的な使い方
mickey_kubo
1
130
イベントストーミング図からコードへの変換手順 / Procedure for Converting Event Storming Diagrams to Code
nrslib
2
850
なんとなくわかった気になるブロックテーマ入門/contents.nagoya 2025 6.28
chiilog
1
270
スタートアップの急成長を支えるプラットフォームエンジニアリングと組織戦略
sutochin26
1
6k
High-Level Programming Languages in AI Era -Human Thought and Mind-
hayat01sh1da
PRO
0
780
初学者でも今すぐできる、Claude Codeの生産性を10倍上げるTips
s4yuba
16
11k
dbt民主化とLLMによる開発ブースト ~ AI Readyな分析サイクルを目指して ~
yoshyum
3
1k
AI時代の『改訂新版 良いコード/悪いコードで学ぶ設計入門』 / ai-good-code-bad-code
minodriven
19
7.5k
A full stack side project webapp all in Kotlin (KotlinConf 2025)
dankim
0
120
Rubyでやりたい駆動開発 / Ruby driven development
chobishiba
1
730
Is Xcode slowly dying out in 2025?
uetyo
1
280
Google Agent Development Kit でLINE Botを作ってみた
ymd65536
2
250
Featured
See All Featured
Music & Morning Musume
bryan
46
6.6k
Bootstrapping a Software Product
garrettdimon
PRO
307
110k
Why Our Code Smells
bkeepers
PRO
336
57k
Git: the NoSQL Database
bkeepers
PRO
430
65k
Why You Should Never Use an ORM
jnunemaker
PRO
58
9.4k
Building Applications with DynamoDB
mza
95
6.5k
Build your cross-platform service in a week with App Engine
jlugia
231
18k
Visualizing Your Data: Incorporating Mongo into Loggly Infrastructure
mongodb
46
9.6k
Fireside Chat
paigeccino
37
3.5k
Visualization
eitanlees
146
16k
BBQ
matthewcrist
89
9.7k
Templates, Plugins, & Blocks: Oh My! Creating the theme that thinks of everything
marktimemedia
31
2.4k
Transcript
How Python rises in Namibia PyCon Africa 2019 09 August
2019 Accra, Ghana Ngazetungue Muheue @muheuenga
[email protected]
ALL ABOUT ME Python programmer ”of all days and
nights” Django Community leader Co-founder of Python Namibia Computer Science student Web Developer, Python and Django instructor Organizer of PyCon Namibia 2
Brief History..... Car Accident Qualification Programming life
3
Brief History..... Car Accident Qualification Programming life
4 Your background doesn’t define you
Brief History..... Car Accident Qualification Programming life
5 Complex codes do exist
Birth of Python Namibia 6
“ We know what we are, but know not what
we may be.
PyCon Namibia ▸ Started 2015 ▸ ...from a collaboration of
Cardiff University and University of Namibia ▸ Birth of PyNam Society ▸ Organized initially to grow local communities. ▸ Set up structure 8
Fact about PyCon Namibia ▸ Organized by members of the
community and ▸ International friends ▸ 2.5 millions lives in Namibia ▸ 50% women ▸ Involves Scholars ▸ Beautiful holiday Destination 9
Python Namibia Society 10
Rise of Python 11
PyNam scholars Django Namibia Django girls
Software/Data Carpentry PIPELINE PyLadies PyNam AI PyData PyNam sub-groups 12 PyNam Scholars S/Data Carpentry Django Namibia Django Girls
Subgroup of PyNam Society Established 2016. Managed
by PyNam and School learners 8 schools involved More than 78 learners To expose children to technology To teach them how to program Own executives team Own structure and constitution Projects PyNam Scholars 13
Achievement 14
Django weekend One – one tutorials Django
girls Django Namibia 15 Source: edureka Source: djangoproject
Facts 16 Challenges Way forward
17 Computer Day / Python Week of Code
To engage scholars People from industry and University
Programming Competition 18
Achievement 19
Communities involvement Web Development Data Science
Academic research High School and University level Individuals from all ages Python in the communities 20
Team work Trust Commitment Meetup, Workshop
and HackNight International friends School outreach program What make it possible…. 21
Challenges Lack of resources Mindset Commitment
Lack of support 22 Source: womeninapologetics
Way forward PyLadies Namibia Python Hub in the
country Build School lab Adopt School Curriculum Build Django communities 23
PyCon Namibia 2020 24 na.pycon.org pynamibia.org Windhoek, Namibia
PyCon Namibia 2020 25 na.pycon.org pynamibia.org Windhoek, Namibia
26 THANKS GHANA! Ngazetungue Muheue @muheuenga
[email protected]