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1. So, this idea of yours…
PyCon Namibia 2016

2. Cardiff University
University of Namibia
Django Society UK
Dutch Django Association
PyNam
YOU!
Thanks!

3. Pleased to meet you!

4. Loek van Gent
@loek1pc / gannetson

5. 1%Club
Do-good crowdfunding

8. Music

9. Journey

11. Ready?

12. India

13. “When using qoutes at a
tech confrence, the most
impotrant thing is to get
the soucre write”
Mahatma Gandhi, 10 September 1752
right!
Julian -> GregorianLoek
Today

14. “When writing software
it’s important to have an eye for detail.
s even more important to know which details ar

16. Hungary

20. “If you are curious,
you’ll find the puzzles around you.
If you are determined,
you will solve them.”
Ernő Rubik

22. Turkey

23. ax2 + bx + c = 0
x1,2 =
-b ± √ b2 - 4ac
2a
ax3 + bx2 + cx + d = 0

25. “You don’t always need a goal
to get somewhere.”

26. Disaster!

28. 5:00
4:00
4:12

29. 4:12
4.904
.000
0:0

31. The Netherlands

35. Bulgaria

37. “Tell me and I forget,
teach me and I may remember,
involve me and I learn.”

38. The Netherlands

39. ax2 + bx + c = 0
Assignment Turbo Pascal:
Write in less then100 lines of code
a program that asks for a, b, and c
and returns x1 and x2

41. solve←{A←0⊃⍵ ⋄ B←1⊃⍵ ⋄ C←2⊃⍵ ⋄
A=0:'Not a quadratic
equation.' ⋄ D←(B*2)-4×A×C ⋄
D=0:-0.5×B÷A ⋄ ((-B-D*0.5), -
B+D*0.5)×0.5÷A}
APL

42. Bulgaria
The Netherlands

46. to teach and to learn
have the same translation in Dutch:
leren

48. Space

49. They can even have
the most amazing outcome!
You can learn a lot from side-projects.

51. So, this idea of yours…
Land of Ideas

52. Terra Ideas

53. Pub in the harbour

54. So, this idea of yours?
Well, it’s just some silly idea…

55. We have 10.000 supporters.
Let’s do something special!

57. Thank you videos
Huge success!

58. Terra Ideas

59. Market in town

60. So, this idea of yours?
I have this great idea, I think…

61. Talk about it. Pitch it!
Friends, family
Colleagues, co-students
Tech meet-up
Lightning talk
Python community

63. Terra Ideas

64. Remote island

65. So, this idea of yours?
I’m pretty sure this
hasn't done this before!
And it just might work!

66. Just try it!Pilot
Clickable demo

67. Terra Ideas

68. The highest mountain

69. So, this idea of yours?I’m going to build a website.
It has a mobile app too.
500 million people will use it.

70. “A journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step.”

71. Minimum Viable Product
MVP

73. You are allowed to think big,
Start small!
but don’t have to.

74. Terra Ideas

75. The beach

76. So, this idea of yours?
I have no idea…

77. Sand castles
Just try it out…

78. To-do list
Visual Basic?
PHP?
Python?
Flask?
Django?
Javascript?

79. Dev Day
Meteor /Arduino project

81. Huge success!
For one day…

83. So, this idea of yours?

84. “Live as if you were to
die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were
to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi

85. Thank you!