1. A new approach for teaching Python
Learning innative language along with
experiencing the power of visual medium
Workshop
A CASE STUDY OF GUVI’s WORKSHOP IN ANNA UNIVERSITY
prepared by IITM’s RTBI

2. Learning outcome of Workshop
This case study is prepared by IIT M’s Rural Technology & Business Incubator (RTBI). The core focus
of RTBI is Incubation. As an Incubator, RTBI’s objective is to identify, nurture and support
entrepreneurs aspiring to evolve rural/social inclusive business models leveraging Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT). RTBI looks at strengthening and supporting entrepreneurs
whose start-up aims to have a larger and cascading impact on the rural and underserved populace.
GUVI is one of the incubatee of RTBI and currently RTBI is providing mentorship and other
handholding support to GUVI. This case study has been developed by RTBI as an incubation support
activity for GUVI.
About the author:

3. Learning outcome of Workshop
RTBI and GUVI are immensely grateful to
1. Dr. T.Thyagarajan,
Director, CUIC, Anna University.
2. Dr. S.Bose
Deputy Director, CUIC, Anna University.
3. Dr.T.kalaiselvan
Placement Coordinator, Anna University.
4. Prof. T. Catherine Bina,
Professor-in-charge, CSMIT.
5. Mr. Mohan Narayanan,
KUBOS Consultancy Services.
for providing us the constant support for conducting this workshop.
RTBI and GUVI would like to extend sincere thanks to all its staff who provided the support both directly and
indirectly .
Acknowledgement

4. Learning outcome of
About GUVI
About the
presentation
• GUVI was started as a unique community involving people who are passionate to learn and
share technical knowledge in their mother tongue.
• GUVI tries to connect with everyone in their preferred language and it provides a platform to
share people’s skills and learning through videos.
• It also conducts workshops in various colleges to impart the programming skills to the
students in an unusually faster way through a new approach of teaching. This new
approach uses visual medium and mother tongue based teaching to give computer
programming training to all.
• GUVI conducted more than 10 workshops in five months in various colleges . The
outcome of these workshops were often increase in both skill and confidence level for
the participants.
• To number of participants, the workshop has imparted industry oriented programming
skills through both classroom based training and self learning videos. The complete
workshop was conducted in Tamil language.
• In this case study presentation, the learning outcomes of the workshop held at
Anna university and MIT was presented.
Workshop
INTRODUCTION

5. Workshop
WORKSHOP DETAILS
1DAY
BEGINNER
Python Introduction
Python Basics
• Python IDE Installation
• Hello World Program
• Names and Variables
• Numbers & Math
• Quiz
PLAYER
• Variables & Names
• String Basics
• More about Strings
• Conditional Operators
• Functions
• Quiz
HUNTER
• For and While Loop
• List, Tuple and Dictionaries
• File Handling
• Debugging Statements
,Break points and watch
• Debugging Step by step
• Watch Variables
• Classes and Objects
• Packages and Modules
2DAY
3DAY
Learning outcome of
4DAY 5DAY
CODING CONTEST
• Panda 3D Game Engine
• Web apps
• GUI apps
CODING CONTEST
• Bouncing Ball using Panda 3D apis
• Web Crawler
• Number Puzzle
• Students Registration app
Trainers:
Mr. Arun Prakash
Ms. Sridevi
Mr. Muruganandam
Mr. Arun Paul
Mr. Bala
Mr. Rajaram
Mr. Raghupathi

6. Workshop
METHODOLOGY
Learning outcome of
Multiple forms of assessment:
Rigorous and multiple forms of assessments techniques were adopted to measure
what the students learnt throughout the workshop.
a. Summative assessment
Pre & post assessment test and coding contests were conducted to measure
the improvement of students understanding ability and application skills
b. Students feedback
The feedback of the students also used for the assessment of the usefulness of the
workshop.
Day 3Day 2 Day 4 Day 5Day 1
Pre & Post assessment tests
Coding contests
Students feedback
Training

7. Workshop
METHODOLOGY
Learning outcome of
Pre & Post assessment tests:
A pre-assessment test consisting of 25 questions was
conducted for the participants. The questions were framed to
test the basic understanding about the Python programming,
basic syntaxes, application of python programme etc., The
results of the pre-assessment tests were considered as a base
line for the measurement of learning outcomes.
Coding contests:
To measure the improvements constantly, coding contests
were conducted. These tests facilitated the participants to
compare their performance with other participants.
Participants feedback:
Students were asked about their rating for the learning through
the feedback forms. The 5 star rating scale is used for
measurement.
Participants can
know their improvement
through pre and post tests
Through the coding
contests participants can
compare their performance
with other participants
Feedback from the
participants gave a clear
picture about participants
perception about the
change.

8. Workshop
Learning outcomes
Learning outcome of
Students feedback
Basic understanding
Advanced python
Confidence to use
python
Application of python skills
in product/application
development
Speed of Programming in
python
Before After
GUVI’s workshop aimed at providing basic understanding and give the confidence to start programming in Python. So,
participants felt less improvement in advanced python and programming speed. But the advanced python skills and
programming speed can be increased by continuous effort by the participants post workshop. GUVI provides support
online for the interested students to improve skills in advanced python.
However GUVI’s workshop significantly improved the basic understanding level of participants and gave confidence to
the learners about the python programming language.

9. Workshop
Learning outcomes
Learning outcome of
Students feedback
GUVI’s approach of teaching python
GUVI’s video content
Clarity of audio
Clarity of Video
Overall learning experience
Quality of tests
Overall satisfaction with GUVI’s learning system
The quality of test is rated
low by the participants. The
reasons may be due to the
usage paper based exam,
lack of facility for immediate
results, no opportunity for
participants to evaluate
themselves under various
criteria. Simply 20
questions were asked in
pre and post tests without
any categorisation of
questions.

10. Workshop
Learning outcomes
Learning outcome of
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Average pre-workshop test
score of participants
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Average post-workshop test
score of participants
A pre-workshop test was conducted to
know the level of participants in
programming in python. The participants
were evaluated through 25 questions of
various toughness level. On an average
students scored 50%.
In the post workshop test, students
performance has been increased and they
scored 80% on an average. Same
toughness level was maintained in the
post workshop test also.

11. Workshop
CONCLUSION
Learning outcome of
Giving technology education for all in their native language by using the power of visual
medium is the main objective of GUVI’s existence. The participants of this workshop were
comfortable in both English and Tamil. But all the participants rated GUVI’s approach of
teaching in native language above 3 out of 5. The main reason for the GUVI’s success
in delivering programming classes in native language is the overall learning experience in
GUVI’s teaching methodology. GUVI teaches in classroom and also provides learning
content through online.
GUVI’s methodology will be more beneficial for the students who are not so comfortable
in learning programming language in English. One of the important learning outcome was
GUVI’s success in building basic skills and confidence for the participants to do coding in
Python language.
If this success can be replicated to students who are not comfortable in English language,
the impact will be remarkable.

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Chennai - 600113.
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