Featured talk: Python for Zombies: 15.000 enrolled in the first Brazilian MOOC to teach Python

Marc-Andre Lemburg -

The talk “”Python for Zombies: 15.000 enrolled in the first Brazilian MOOC to teach Python will be given by Fernando Masanori Ashikaga.

Fernando is a university teacher and will talk about his experiences of teaching programming with Python in Brazil MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) and spreading Python in Brazil. Hacking basic modules and classes to obtain the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything”. A funny way to teach programming.

Fernando Masanori Ashikaga is a professor for communications at the Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Bernardo do Campo in  São Paolo, Brazil.