Keynote

• Education WG
• PythonZero
• GPIO Zero
• Network zero: https://github.com/tjguk/networkzero/
• Zero: based on an established package, emphasis is on up-and-running use in a classroom, Relevant error messages

Micro:bit

• Mu, demos

Lessons learned from teaching Python

• Put your work out there on the internet
• Think about internationalization
• Self publish Amazon's create space, Kindle
• Quizzes, collect data, data mining
• Instructor section
• Online markup of code
• EpicPen
• YouTube channel
• Libraries: Pygame, Arcade

Pyzero

• Demos
• pzrun

Minecraft with Python

• Use Python to interact with Minecraft
• CoderDojo Minecraft bundle
• Using Jupyter Notebooks

PyCharm Edu

• Courses
• Checkout PyCharm EDU for creating courses

Teaching data structures with Python

• Python makes the teacher happy
• Lab only
• Algorithms in Python + C (Side by side)
• Two languages worked well for them.
• Low level language: easy to find the complexity of the algorithm
• High level language: hard to find the complexity of the algorithm

Merlin for Data Science Education

• Where to even start?
• Effort justification
• Spending 2hr out of a 8hr session in fixing something is not worth it
• Shouldn't be proud of battling with tool set rather than not doing the real work
• Merlin - http://www.darklabsdatascience.com/project_merlin/