Git and Python Workshop

On 4/19/2015, the GWU chapter of the ACM hosted a Git and Python workshop led by Neel Shah and Brannon McGraw. In it, attendees learned the basics of Python, Github, and then immediately used their skills to code a hangman game.

Here is the basic outline of the workshop:

• Basic flow:
  • Teach basic Python Syntax
    • stdin/stdout
      • input from user using raw_input
      • printing things (format strings, new lines, lists)
    • file i/o
      • accessing dictionary.txt file
      • stripping each item of the newline character
    • string manipulation
      • substrings, indicies, lower(), isalpha(), comparison
    • random lib
      • generate random number with randrange()
  • Teach basics of Git
    • What is it, how to use it, why its awesome
    • Forking
    • Branches
    • Pull/Push
    • Describe it as a Graph
    • Give sencario of how used
  • Make hangman!
    • Everyone fork repo
    • Describe the basics of how hangman.py is supposed to work
    • Go over loop structure and guessing method
    • Everyone make a branch for a function and make it work
    • Submit pull requests that will be merged for final product

The final product is in hangman.py