How one Melburnian spent Software Freedom Day
Sep 21, 2009, 07:06 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sam Varghese)
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Varghese for this link. ]
"This was Nguyen's second effort as a volunteer. "My
first time was during the 2008 celebration, in which I gave a talk
on free and open source software in science education. I definitely
look forward to volunteering to help out in any way I can during
next year's SFD," he told iTWire.
"This year he had volunteered to speak about Python, in
particular how Python could be used as a way to introduce people to
computer programming.
""Teaching beginners how to program a computer can be easy or it
can be difficult," Nguyen said. "In my talk, I chose Python as the
language to introduce the audience to programming because Python
allows me to get my message across much more quickly than if I had
used other programming languages such as C, C++, or Java." (The
talk is here and his notes are here.)"
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