The past 2 months went with weekly 3 python classes in Tamil, from Kaniyam Foundation

We got around 3500 participants in 3 whatsapp groups. Initial days went with some 1000+ students.

As the classes are in Tamil, live streamed, many participants started to learn easily.

We asked to learn, take notes, write blog daily. Many of them started to write. You can see them all here – https://blogs.kaniyam.cloudns.nz/

I hope minimum 20 students learned python very well.

The project demo days at final weeks proved that within 2 months, anyone can learn python programming and do good projects. All we need is dedicated learning and practicing.

I thank Syed Jafer, who trained us in a easy way. Thanks to all participants for great enthusiasm and hard work on learning.

I got opportunity to handle few classes and few QA sessions. Enjoyed every discussions with the team. Happy to see the progress and read all your blog posts daily. Continue the learning and writing. It is a life long process.

Special Thanks to my ilugc friend Asokan. He is a trainer for 20+ years. He taught python around 2005 in our Chennai Linux Users Group meetings. Happy to learn again from him, on his special training sessions.

On our discussions, he explained how to train python for beginners. Learned on he importance of more good examples, how to explain basics etc.

We all wondered on various methods to solve the fizz buzz problem and the beauty of functional programming.

Thanks for Asokan for mentoring us and TalentSprint.com for providing Zoom for the classes.

The feedback session was interesting. Captured the notes here on the things to improve on the next classes.

Feedback from participants –

• go little slow
• more basics and examples
• first week , explain programming basics for beginners
• teach flow charting methods for basics.
• try teaching scratch
• weekend sessions batch
• make more conversations by participants
• make sub groups
• get cheerleaders within the team to make the classes interactive
• more promotion needed
• give better examples
• more QA sessions are required
• each one should talk
• showing face in video can help to get some personal connections.
• run mini hackathons
• make more interactions and connections between the participants
• ask to write blogs daily
• encourage to give talks in class and other communities

Few more learning’s

• Don’t create whatsapp group for communications. It has 1024 members limit. Having multiple groups is a headache.
• Telegram is fine for now. Try to explore mailing list too.
• Mute the groups, if required, to avoid “hi,hello,good morning” messages.
• Teach how to join for mailing list like chennaipy, kanchilug and how to ask in forums like https://forums.tamillinuxcommunity.org/
• Teach how to create a free blog in dev.to or wordpress.com
• Don’t spend much time on explaining all the things in the language. In 5th or 6th class, they have to write code for a small project. Explain things as solutions for the project ideas or problem statements.
• Insist on using names when calling people, always. By habit, people will call as sir/madam. avoid that on any technical discussions. We all are equal.
• Zoom is costly. Even though we invest time on training and money for zoom, only around 50 people will complete the training. Check for other platforms like jitsi or google meet too.

Will try to implement these in our upcoming classes.

If you are interested in teaching any open source technology in tamil, write to us at KaniyamFoundation@gmail.com It can be some 30 min talk or few months trainings.

Thanks for all people who are spreading the knowledge openly. you are the backbone of the life.

Links –

All the training videos are here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQquVptFreE&list=PLiutOxBS1Mizte0ehfMrRKHSIQcCImwHL

Telegram Group – https://t.me/parottasalna

My slides in introduction to python – https://kaniyam.cloudns.nz/python-tips/python-tips.pdf

350 python tips – https://kaniyam.cloudns.nz/python-tips/python-tips.pdf

Syed’s website – https://parottasalna.com/

All our blog posts – https://blogs.kaniyam.cloudns.nz

The past 2 months went with weekly 3 python classes in Tamil, from Kaniyam Foundation

We got around 3500 participants in 3 whatsapp groups. Initial days went with some 1000+ students.

As the classes are in Tamil, live streamed, many participants started to learn easily.

We asked to learn, take notes, write blog daily. Many of them started to write. You can see them all here – https://blogs.kaniyam.cloudns.nz/

I hope minimum 20 students learned python very well.

The project demo days at final weeks proved that within 2 months, anyone can learn python programming and do good projects. All we need is dedicated learning and practicing.

I thank Syed Jafer, who trained us in a easy way. Thanks to all participants for great enthusiasm and hard work on learning.

I got opportunity to handle few classes and few QA sessions. Enjoyed every discussions with the team. Happy to see the progress and read all your blog posts daily. Continue the learning and writing. It is a life long process.

Special Thanks to my ilugc friend Asokan. He is a trainer for 20+ years. He taught python around 2005 in our Chennai Linux Users Group meetings. Happy to learn again from him, on his special training sessions.

On our discussions, he explained how to train python for beginners. Learned on he importance of more good examples, how to explain basics etc.

We all wondered on various methods to solve the fizz buzz problem and the beauty of functional programming.

Thanks for Asokan for mentoring us and TalentSprint.com for providing Zoom for the classes.

The feedback session was interesting. Captured the notes here on the things to improve on the next classes.

Feedback from participants –

• go little slow
• more basics and examples
• first week , explain programming basics for beginners
• teach flow charting methods for basics.
• try teaching scratch
• weekend sessions batch
• make more conversations by participants
• make sub groups
• get cheerleaders within the team to make the classes interactive
• more promotion needed
• give better examples
• more QA sessions are required
• each one should talk
• showing face in video can help to get some personal connections.
• run mini hackathons
• make more interactions and connections between the participants
• ask to write blogs daily
• encourage to give talks in class and other communities

Few more learning’s

• Don’t create whatsapp group for communications. It has 1024 members limit. Having multiple groups is a headache.
• Telegram is fine for now. Try to explore mailing list too.
• Mute the groups, if required, to avoid “hi,hello,good morning” messages.
• Teach how to join for mailing list like chennaipy, kanchilug and how to ask in forums like https://forums.tamillinuxcommunity.org/
• Teach how to create a free blog in dev.to or wordpress.com
• Don’t spend much time on explaining all the things in the language. In 5th or 6th class, they have to write code for a small project. Explain things as solutions for the project ideas or problem statements.
• Insist on using names when calling people, always. By habit, people will call as sir/madam. avoid that on any technical discussions. We all are equal.
• Zoom is costly. Even though we invest time on training and money for zoom, only around 50 people will complete the training. Check for other platforms like jitsi or google meet too.

Will try to implement these in our upcoming classes.

If you are interested in teaching any open source technology in tamil, write to us at KaniyamFoundation@gmail.com It can be some 30 min talk or few months trainings.

Thanks for all people who are spreading the knowledge openly. you are the backbone of the life.

Links –

All the training videos are here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQquVptFreE&list=PLiutOxBS1Mizte0ehfMrRKHSIQcCImwHL

Telegram Group – https://t.me/parottasalna

My slides in introduction to python – https://kaniyam.cloudns.nz/python-tips/python-tips.pdf

350 python tips – https://kaniyam.cloudns.nz/python-tips/python-tips.pdf

Syed’s website – https://parottasalna.com/

All our blog posts – https://blogs.kaniyam.cloudns.nz