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So the aim of those sessions and workshops that I would like to provides is to teach people about programming. People won't eventually come out as Web developers or professional python coders, it's rather more about providing a core or a foundation in programming and problem solving which is in my opinion an absolute requirement for a person to call himself a programmer, and not just a Python coder, or a Ruby coder. By understanding the idea behind programming and its basics first, it opens the doors for a person to dig into whatever language or framework all by themselves later on, and gives them the ability to decide on what they learn, and why the chose that.
So this is intended for absolute beginners who would like to learn about programming. I will begin the workshops with pure basic intro to programming, problem solving, definition of algorithms, and describing pseudo code. Pseudo code will be used to provide the basics of a real programming language, but in simple English text. That could be assigning variables, conditionals, loops and others. And then attendees will practice a bit solving problems using pseudo code. This should be for the first session.
Later on in next sessions we'll take that to the next level, which is writing real applications using Java, focusing on real formal programming syntax, datatypes, compilation and running..etc
I will give out a more clear outline during the first session, perhaps also to see how well accepted it is or if changes to be made.
These are sessions I would also like to hold for people who are interested in Web Development. I used to carry out similar workshops last year, so I still have the outline which wouldn't be much different, you can check it out here: http://sessions.tgalal.com/ . Absolute beginners are also welcome to these sessions but, most probably I will not go into Javascript or any server-side programming (which is not necessarily PHP) unless students do know programming basics, whether as a previous knowledge or from attending the programming workshop.