Pyladies is an international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community through outreach, education, conferences, events and social gatherings. PyLadies also aims to provide a friendly support network for women, and a bridge to the larger Python world. Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate!
Pune is the only city in India where there are more than 50 engineering colleges and 20 leading IT companies. With the growth of many tech start ups, it is envisioned as the next Silicon Valley in India. The energy and spirit in Pune make it the perfect city for the PyLadies chapter in India. I belong from a women’s engineering college. Python has only recently been introduced in our university curriculum and is totally new to both the students and teachers, but everyone enjoys coding and exploring the language.
Every year Cummins College of Engineering for Women organize a 2-day technical event. This is no less than a festival for students who absolutely love technology. Many competitions, presentations, talks, discussions, workshops are scheduled and students spend the entire day learning new things. Pyladies took this opportunity to organize a python workshop.
Students received prerequisites via email before attending the workshop which included instructions to install python. IDE and reference books to learn the basics. Best free available online courses. The information about how to get financial aid for the paid online courses. Pywalk received 60 entries. In 8-hour hands-on coding workshop, students covered all the basics of python including Data types, operator, branching, looping etc.