Halloween HTML & Python Course for Secondary School Students

Alert Learning is offering a short course for secondary school students who wish to learn the basic fundamentals of Python & HTML in Longford Town this October.

The aim of this course is to provide an overview of education and enterprise opportunities in the IT industry, as well as to provide a general introduction to computer coding via the computer programming coding language "Python".  Basic website development using HTML will also feature as part of the course.

Python is free to use, even for commercial products, because of its OSI-approved open source license and can be used for any programming task, from Graphical User Interface (GUI) programming to web programming with everything else in between.

The Python Software Foundation holds the intellectual property rights behind Python, underwrites the PyCon conference, and funds many other projects in the Python community.

For more information on Python, please see http://www.python.org/.

The learning outcomes of this introductory course include:

1. Basic use of the Python interactive interpreter

2. Strings

3. Integers

4. Floats

5. Lists

6. Variables

7. Simple Expressions

HTML concepts that will be covered include:

1. Explain what web standards are, and why they are needed

2. Know what files comprise a web site

3. Create a site folder

4. HTML Tags

5. HTML Elements

6. HTML Page Structure

Course details are as follows:

Dates:  Tuesday 29th October, Wed 30th October and Thursday the 31st October

Time:  2-4 pm

Venue:  Longford Enterprise Centre

Fees:  10 euro per day; 25 euro for 3 days (2-4 pm)

Number of Participants:  Limited to 10

Requirements:  No hardware is required as a computer and internet access is available at the Longford Enterprise Centre.  Please bring a pen and paper to take notes.

How to register:  Email alertlearning@gmail.com or text/phone Cathy Lynch at 086 402 2616.