Finally,

I resurrected into the world of Coding. And the journey is starting with Python

It all started with a post on X platform that calls for people to join FREE Python online class starting from July 8, interested people can join the WhatsApp group using the link.

Obviously I too clicked the link because it said FREE common people i’m from India what do you expect. First two three days I was like Dhanush in Pudupettai. இங்க ஒரே இருட்டா இருக்கு, யாராவது இருக்கீங்களா ?

On the penultimate day that’s July 7th, they uploaded a YouTube video link that explained how to install PYTHON. That gave me the assurance that I’m in the right group. I didn’t take it seriously and next day they uploaded the link for the meeting and meeting agenda. Now I’m pretty sure that I’m part of this PYTHON batch.

Around 6.30pm, told my wife, I’m going to join this class and not to disturb me for another hour. But she’s is also interested in learning. So we left the kid with my mom and informed about the class and we were getting ready to join the class.

Initially I thought I’m good with my phone, but now it’s two people it won’t be enough so screen mirrored my phone to the TV but audio is still from the phone. Syed started the class and explained about the course its outcomes, their expectations and other things. Then Shrini joined and he talked about KANIYAM and other groups that is working in bringing Tamil Computing to a larger groups. Since this part was kinda slow , everyone in the chat were like “Are you going to start Python class or no ?”. Being a tamil enthusiast I really enjoyed listening to all the works being done by these people. I felt sad for not finding these people earlier. Them they gave all the links to their groups and activities. That’s how day 1 of PYTHON class came to an end. After the class, I started reading Shrini’s goinggnu.Wordpress.com blog and got to know more info about him and his wife and their contribution to Tamil Computing.

Day 2

Today I had to go to the market so asked my wife to join the class and let me know afterwards. I joined towards the end, asked wife what’s the class about she said it’s about Print function but she was also busy with kid so she also didn’t pay much attention. But she said video and other information are available in the Parotta Salma website. Since it’s available online , we didn’t spend much time on it that day

Day 3

Today I was prepared with everything and joined the class on time. Today the class was about Data Types. I took notes and explained to wife as she was busy with kid.

Later that night, while I was reading the blog from people in the RSS feed link, I found this guy Govindarajan Shanm blog very informative with simple steps. Using those steps, I installed Python and IDE and made sure the program make do the coding tradition and write a “Hello World”

I Opened the Python and typed

Print (“Hello World!”) and clicked enter and the output was

Hello World

Then again did the same with the IDE shell. Having used Matlab I got to know the use of IDE. I got that to work perfectly. During the class Syed was talking about VS code. So decided I should give it a try., so with the help of some tutorials I was able to make VS code work fine.

Day 4 – 7

Today we had some time in the morning, so we finished our work then started on our Python Journey. we used Parotta Salma notes and tried all their commands for Print functions. Inbetween we searched some doubts on Google and happened to see Input command and we used it on our examples for new line print function.

We worked on all the print functions and successfully completed our week 1 of Python Learning.