Pycon Malaysia (PyconMY) 2015 just wrapped up last week. This is the first ever Python conference in Malaysia after a mini Pycon held last year. It was held in Universiti Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur. Unfortunately, due to some emergency with my family, I have to leave early after delivering my talk and basically missed the whole event.
Throughout the talk, I try to give broad general overview of what they can expect if they were some day decide to adopt Python into their work environment.
The main barrier to Python is not the language itself but the ecosystem around it. Some people come to Python not because they want to learn it but because the application they want to use happened to be developed in Python. If they can get pass this stage, Python would appear as attractive to them and will make them start learning the language.
This is basically the path that I took to learn Python. I started not by learning the language, but trying all sort of applications built in Python. This, I think allow me to begin with an end in mind. Rather than wondering what I can do with the language once I know all the syntax and so on, I know exactly what sort of applications Python can build, now I just need to dig deeper how exactly does people built it. The is how I managed to see how Python features such as list comprehension, decorator, metaclass and others being used to solve real problems.
Kamal Mustafa
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Joined December 2010. Have been doing web development since early 2000 with classic ASP, then moved on to PHP and finally involved with Python/Django since joining Xoxzo Inc. During his spare time Kamal hacks various open source projects at github.
