On Friday, November 22, 2013 6:59:19 PM UTC-5, koch...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I'm about held a short course with the title indicated in the subjects. The > students are very experienced programmers of our company, with deep knoledge > on C, C++, C#, Perl and similar languages, but very limited, or absolutely no > knowledge on python. > > what would you teach to such a group in 5x1.5 hours? I'm looking for the most > interesting, unique topics, emphesizing python's strong points. > > I have already a couple ideas: > - a general intro about tuples, lists, dicts, sets, and working with these > - functional programming tools, functools, itertools, lambda, map, filter > - wsgi, pickle > > I'd appreciate a lot if you could add some ideas > > thanks, > Mate
I gave a 45-minute presentation at the DevDays conference in 2009 to introduce programmers to Python. The slides are here: http://nedbatchelder.com/text/devdays.html Sorry there's no text to go with them. They introduce the good points of Python, then go through two code exercises: Peter Norvig's spellchecker, which is great for showing off data structures; and a micro templating engine, which takes advantage of Python's dynamic nature. --Ned. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
