From Django Girls Ho, With Love.

This blog post was written by Hope Adoli. Thank you, Hope Adoli :) 

The Django Girls Ho event took place on 29th and 30th September 2017 at KK Hub in Ho. During the workshop, 40 ladies were introduced to Python Programming and website development using the Django Web framework, thanks to the selfless service of our 14 awesome coaches.

The workshop began on 29th September with the installation party. The participants were guided by their coaches to install the various software that would later be used, thus Python and Django and also creating the virtual environment. On Saturday, they began building their websites using Python and Django Web Framework.

Even though most of them were new to programming which initially made things slow, the coaches were able to guide them carefully and by the time workshop was coming to an end, most of them were already considering continuing learning Python.

During the workshop, we had a lightning talk from Prof Di Margarete Grimus via Skype call who talked to the ladies about the benefits of being a programmer, especially as women. She also encouraged the ladies to take their programming lessons seriously, and she also answered questions from the participants.

On the whole, the workshop was very successful and Djangolicious and we the organizers are very honoured to have been part of it, and we could not have done any of these without the priceless support from the Django Foundation, Python Software Foundation and GitHub. Your financial and other forms of support made it possible for us to organize the workshop successfully, which has helped shape the lives of 40 ladies who will also go to teach others. Thank you so much.

Also, we had partnership from KK Hub – Ho, BarCamp Ghana, Travis-CI, Life-Mac Network Foundation, Hello Web App and Jet Brains. It was our pleasure to partner with you. The different roles you played in making this workshop a success is very much appreciated. We hope to work again with you soon.

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