Our inspirational speech for the attendees of Django Girls Ensenada, Mexico, to encourage everyone to continue with their programming journey.
Special thanks to DjangoGirlsMX, the US Consulate General of Tijuana, and Hala Ken for inviting us.
12. 10. Write the Next
Dropbox
Python is powerful enough to power Dropbox.
13. 10. Write the Next
Dropbox
Python creator Guido van
Rossum works for Dropbox.
Notice his “Python is for
Girls” t-shirt.
photo by Tendenci.org
14. 9. Teach Kids to Code
You can use Python
to teach your kids
how to code.
That’s how simple
and well-designed
Python is.
15. Python is used in MIT’s Introduction to Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science courses
8. Teach MIT
Students to Code
16. 8. Teach MIT
Students to Code
My first Python program was an HP iPaq app to navigate around
the MIT Stata Center with speech-to-text (2004)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joiseyshowaa/1279750389
17. 7. Make or Lose Millions
You can write Python code to automatically
buy and sell stocks with real money.
18. 7. Make or Lose Millions
Tools like Quantopian let you take on Wall Street
with just a few lines of Python code.
19. 6. Make 3D Printed
Jewelry
I used Blender 3D Python scripting to make this pendant.
20. 5. Make 2D Art
I was a professional artist
for a few years, with a
studio practice in SF.
!
I created some of my
artwork with Python code
(PIL, PyCairo).
22. 4. GIS
You can also write Python scripts for Esri’s
ArcGIS platform.
23. 3. Sound Analysis/
Generation
Represent & analyze sound waves in time and
frequency domains.
https://github.com/calebmadrigal/FourierTalkOSCON
And make funny noises.
25. 1. Scientific Data
Analysis
Need a Python library for transient absorption spectroscopy?
Yep, there’s one for that.
http://www.photonfactory.auckland.ac.nz/en/photon-factory/python-based-transient-absorption-spectroscopy-data-analysis.html
26. 1. Scientific Data
Analysis
PyTrA is a project from the Photon Factory laser facility of the
University of Auckland, New Zealand.
http://www.photonfactory.auckland.ac.nz/en/photon-factory/python-based-transient-absorption-spectroscopy-data-analysis.html
37. Grew From There
• Quickly in use at every NASA center
• Used by major news sites around the world
• Added template tags
• Add buttons and styles
• Converted to bootstrap
• Much more
39. What’s Awesome
1. Library started in my first month of
Django.
2. Open Source meant I had help fixing
my mistakes.
3. Anything we do as beginners has
potential.