Python for Zombies MOOC is the first brazilian MOOC to teach programming. With a team made up of three folks and no budget, we have reached 42.000 enrollments in two years of activity. After having taken the course, some former girl students even founded the first PyLadies groups in Brazil. There are a lot of Massive Open Online Courses that teach programming in Python (Coursera, Edx, Udacity), but only 5% of the Brazilian people are fluent in English. For this reason, the Brazilian Python community took the initiative to develop the first MOOC to teach programming in Portuguese. The initiative of this MOOC does not come from the University where I am a professor. Portuguese vídeo at FISL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-XofuCL_o Portuguese vídeo at RuPy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz44t_--39Y InfoQ presentation at TDC (portuguese): http://www.infoq.com/br/presentations/python-para-zumbis-primeiro-mooc Portuguese vídeo at Campus Party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTUZYywZfhw English Vídeo at EuroPython: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egjzOPTvDMI Spanish Vídeo at PyConArgentina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddQTniwejVs Spanish vídeo at PyConUruguay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLPz6cI2t4Q

1. Python, the next
Brazilian generation

2. Why Python?
http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-the-most-popular-
introductory-teaching-language-at-top-us-universities/fulltext

3. Why Python?
"Results show that many aspects of traditional C-
style syntax, while it has influenced a generation of
programmers, exhibits problems in terms of
usability for novices".
"Perl and Java did not accuracy rates significantly
higher than a language with randomly generated
keywords"
Andreas Stefik and Susanna Siebert: "An Empirical Investigation into
Programming Language Syntax." ACM Transactions on Computing
Education, 13(4), Nov. 2013.

4. The most common fault in computer classes is to
emphasize the rules of specific programming
languages, instead of to emphasize the algorithms
that are being expressed in those languages. D. Knuth
interview at People of ACM, June, 2014.

5. http://www.python.org/psf/diversity/
“We want our community to be more
diverse: whoever you are, and
whatever our background, we
welcome you”

6. Diversity
Diversity in Python Community is real
2014: 1/3 talks PyCon by women
2015: 1/3 talks PyCon by women
2016: 1/3 talks PyCon by women
2015: 1/3 talks DjangoCon by women
2016: 1/2 talks DjangoConEu by women
2015: 7 women, 4 men (newly elected
PSF board)

7. http://pyladies.com
We Love Python
http://djangogirls.org

8. Each week on our blog we try to introduce two badass
ladies who use Python or Django to highlight their work.
What about you?
http://djangogirls.org/story/

9. Goal: 25% non American 2015
We Love Python

11. A good sword just does not make a good
samurai, not just use Python

12. Python for Zombies

13. Summary
in 2 years
3 folks + zero budget =
42.000 enrollments
of comparison: one university professor reaches 3000 students throughout his career

14. Summary
Some girls that are former students have even
created the first PyLadies chapters in Brazil.

15. +100 talks and workshops in 11 countries

16. Django Girls Namibia

17. I love teaching
CS Professor at FATEC
https://about.me/fmasanori
http://pycursos.com/python-para-zumbis/

18. Goal
Teaching programming for everybody, for
free, in portuguese (only 5% of Brazilian
people are fluent in English1)
1. IBOPE (2012)

19. http://pycursos.com/python-para-zumbis/
First portuguese programming MOOC

20. MOOC Menu

21. MOOC Videos

22. MOOC Forum

23. Answers
Right answer Up vote Down vote comment

24. Differences from other MOOCs?

25. Community initiative
Not of my university

26. Cronology
• November 2012: “We need a MOOC to teach
Python” Marcel Caraciolo (president of Python
Brazil Association)
• My answer: “Cool, it will be ready in two years”
• July 2013: “Next month we will have the first
MOOC for teaching programming in Portuguese.
This is the website for pre-registration…”.
Marcel's announcement at Campus Party Brazil.

27. My first reaction
Because I had nothing ready

28. But we did it
One month to:
1.Design the entire course
2.Get the first week videos recorded
PS: We took advantage of a platform that already existed

29. Nexts weeks
I recorded the lessons at:
1.Fast food restaurants, airports, FATEC
classrooms
2.Travels to conferences
PS: theBoom Noise Canceling Headset is really useful

30. Python 3
• Convenient to use accents in foreign languages
– Ex.: opção = 42
• More natural division
– 1 / 2 results 0.5

31. Small 4min videos without quizzes

32. A huge compilation of exercises
• CodingBat
• Google Python Class
• Google Developer Day
• Cracking Code Interview
• Facebook Hackaton
• Edx MIT
• IME – USP

33. 12 years old girls code
To promote diversity

34. 42.000 enrolled in two years

35. overcomed with good humor
Some availability problems

36. TWD Portugal Fanpage

37. Some data
• Only three people:
– Fernando Masanori (videos)
– Gileno Filho (Django Dev)
– Marcel Caraciolo (Data Scientist)
• Zero budget: no grants, no investments received, no
crowdfunding
• With the collaboration of the whole Brazilian Python
Community
• 42.000 enrollments in two years of activity
• Course completion: 8.91%

38. Former students: PyLadies Brazil

39. First PyLadies Event (100+) 80 women

40. RuPy Natal (300+) 1/3 women
Increase on diversity in other conferences

41. Code Girl 2 Natal (700+) 60% women
Increase on diversity in other conferences

42. Code Girl 3 Speaker

43. Cecilia Tanaka (lawyer)
Erika Campos (journalist)
Patrícia Simões (phycicist)
PyLadies São Paulo Cofounders

44. First Meetup: open to non CS areas
Full class in 24h (62 waiting list)

45. 20 hours course: full in 12h (180 waiting list)

46. Women Tech in Sampa Prize

47. Use case: University of São Paulo
A thousand engineers are using the videos

48. Former student: Ysani Kalapalo
Now first Brazilian indigenous at Harvard

49. Former student: Carlos Glória
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrHHsPaE_WA

50. Ex-aluna: Luiza Nunes

51. Unicef U-Report

53. Zombie's Operating System
63%
26%
6%
3% 2%
Windows
Linux
Mac
Android
IOS

54. How did you find the course
32%
31%
10%
10%
Facebook
Friends refer
Search engines
Discussion lists

55. Where are the zombies?
PS: USA 1.2%, Portugal 0.9%,
Argentina 0.07%, Paraguai
0.06%

56. Massive Coding Dojo
Nitrous.IO (Collab Mode) + Hangout On Air with Live Q&A

57. Talk is cheap.
Show me the code.
Linus Torvalds

58. K-12 CEDET Decolar

59. CEDET Decolar Game
https://gist.github.com/10198873
Made by a 12 year old girl

60. Cripto CEDET Decolar
Made by another 12 year old girl

61. 42 OOP

62. 42 is stronger than the beast
https://gist.github.com/7034743

63. Facebook Hackaton 2013 (Selective Test)
https://gist.github.com/5620075
Selection Test 2013 Facebook Hackaton Given two positive integers n and k, generate all
binary integer between 0 and 2 ** n-1, inclusive. These binaries will be drawn in descending
order according to the number of existing 1s. If there is a tie choose the lowest numerical
value. Return the k-th element from the selected list. Eg n = 3 and k = 5 ['0 b111 ', '0 b11', '0
B101 ', '0 b110', '0 b1 ', '0 b10', '0 b100 ', '0 b0'] fifth element '0 b1 '

64. Quicksort: “The beauty will save the code”
https://gist.github.com/4673057

65. Interface GUI
https://gist.github.com/4961824
By Luciano Ramalho

66. World Cup
https://gist.github.com/fmasanori/1288160dad16cc473a53
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67. https://gist.github.com/fmasanori/a428ef783211b0ffdee1
2014 World Cup Costs

68. https://gist.github.com/fmasanori/fc0e98c8c486be80d5a5
How many schools there are in Brazil, operating
without water, electricity and sewerage?

69. • Two years == +100 talks (Python for Zombies
MOOC related topics) and workshops
• Montevideo, Montreal, Florence, Berlin,
London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Bilbao,
Tokyo, Windhoek
• A lot of friends all over the world!
Personal benefits

70. A lot of new friends…

73. • Visibility
• Flipped Classrooms: more time for Coding
Dojos and exercises
• Second chance for students to review the
lessons
Benefits for my university

74. • “Trojan Horse” to enter in many new places
• Material for tutorials in local user groups and
also for professors to teach CS1 with Python
• Low cost example of how to spread the
community: 3 folks that made an impact in
40.000 in two years
• We multiply the number of local Python Day
events: Alagoas, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Goiás,
Piauí, Mato Grosso, Pernambuco, Rio Grande
do Norte, Sergipe…
Benefits for Python Community

75. • Learning analytics
• Some A/B testing
• Distributed Leadership experiments
• Open edX: http://code.edx.org/
Future

77. Don't think too much
Just do it

78. Questions?
http://about.me/fmasanori
fmasanori@gmail.com
Slides: bit.ly/python-for-zombies