An Interesting Python Experience

Last week I saw a mail from Noufal Ibrahim, a computer science enthusiast, that he was planning to conduct an online session to teach python programming for a small group and asked for a suitable date.After attending his workshop on "Programming as Engineering" in my college I thought it would be great to attend the session as the workshop was very informative and fun.So I registered in a form prepared by him and suggested 15/9/13 to be a good date.Eventually the session was planned to be conducted on that date using talky.io, a video based web chat for groups.But it didnt turn out well and finally we turned to the good old text based group chat using Freenode.

The session started with a few students from other colleges as well and we were to learn python by writing a program that will get the photo of the day from Nat Geo's page and change our desktop background to that photo. Cool right? Thank Allah it wasn't just a hello world type session. He began with a quick intro to python and went on with the material prepared by him.

It was a very good experience. I got to learn some very interesting things about python and also created a cool program. The web chat experience was also new. Hope to attend such sessions in future.