Learn Python with us – An online workshop in KanchiLUG

Hi All,

As you all know, in this year, KanchiLUG has been conducting only two events: weekly discussions and monthly meets.
But it is not limited to those events alone. In the past KanchiLUG conducted many workshops, technical stalls and install fests for linux etc.,
To start the activity back, I am planning on conducting an online Python workshop in KanchiLUG.
Below is the plan for the workshop,

Title : Learn Python with us
Frequency of workshop : Weekends ( Both saturdays and sundays)
Timing : Dynamic (Will be announced in mailing list and here on every Friday prior to the class on saturday)
Duration : Approx. 1 hr on weekends
Starting date : Oct 15
Target audience : Complete beginners (Even who don’t have prior experience of programming can attend)

Topics to be covered:

  • Programming and its need
  • Why specifically python?
  • Input and outputs
  • Data types
  • Operators and variables
  • How to get help and explore python?
  • Methods and type casting
  • Data structures – (List, tuple, set, dictionary)
  • Control statements – (If else and all other types)
  • Looping – (for and while)
  • File handling
  • Practical use cases (
    Web scraping
    Connecting to API
    Exception handling
    Automation
    Cryptography with python
    Creating a assistant with python
    …more exciting projects )

Things you will need:

  • A laptop
  • Internet connection

Note: This is a workshop so everyone has to practice it and learn it.

Timings of the first session will be sent out in a mail on coming Friday.
Kindly share this to everyone, who can benefit from this

Side note: If you interested in teaching some topics of this workshop, you are welcome kindly contact me

Any more queries: You can ask in KanchiLUG mailing list (or) you can also text me on telegram – https://t.me/paramesh2703

Thanks and Regards,
Parameshwar Arunachalam
stark20236@gmail.com

Monthly Meeting Schedule – October 09, 2022

Hi everyone,
KanchiLUG’s Monthly meet is scheduled as online meeting this week on Sunday, 09 October 2022 4:00 PM – 5:00PM

Meeting link : https://meet.jit.si/kanchilugmonthlymeet
(Note: This monthly meeting link is different from weekly discussion link. So kindly use the above link to join the Monthly meeting)

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

Talk Details
Talk 0:

Topic : Rofi – A modern and more customizable launcher for everything

Description : Still using the default menu coming with DE(Desktop Environment) and bored with lack of customization. Let’s take a look at Rofi, an all-in-one launcher application for everything in linux.

I have been using this for the past 2 months now. It has most customizable features and it is a fast all-in-one launcher with customer scripting feature to create menus.

Let me show you how it works and what it is capable of.

Estimated Duration : 30 -45 minutes
Speaker Name : Parameshwar Arunachalam
About speaker : A (btw) linux user : )

After Talks : Q&A, General discussion

About KanchiLUG : Kanchi Linux Users Group [ KanchiLUG ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Kanchipuram since November 2006.

Anyone can join! (Entry is free)
Everyone is welcome
Feel free to share this to your friends

Regards,
Parameshwar Arunachalam
stark20236@gmail.com