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Setting up jupyterhub on AWS EC2 with Github users

After a week of on/off effort I have successfully deployed the Jupyterhub server with Github auth for pykids .

Here are the steps and reference to guides I followed:

Get EC2 instance — use a…

Meenal Pant in pykids

Oct 18, 2017

Jupyterhub with Google OAuth 2

Following up on my previous post here , I set up another Jupyterhub server with Google OAuth2 .

Pretty straight forward after you set up our credentials on Google Console.

Meenal Pant in pykids

Nov 21, 2017

Oops — loops …

Feedback is coming in from kids and it is uplifting …. “Python coding is one of the best after school class” and they “look forward to it”. Wow!

After a quick review of the previous classes we started on the funnest class “loops”.

Meenal Pant in pykids

Nov 5, 2017

Of numbers and strings …

Class 2 saw a few new faces which was fun! However we did have technical glitches with Jupyter notebook server on AWS. After a fresh reboot we were off to work …

First a quick recap of Lesson1 , discussing computing terms like binary, debugging and compiler in…

Meenal Pant in pykids

Dec 13, 2017

Blocks and grids

The last class ( 6th session) is a favorite with kids. Visual is appealing and its fun to play with blocks and colors … ipythonblocks

Meenal Pant in pykids

Oct 26, 2017

Pykids fall 17 classes begin …

And we are off again … first class today with a bunch of curious kids from 6th, 7th and 8th grades. First day is always a slower start … but the class warms up fast

Meenal Pant in pykids

Aug 19, 2017

pykids workshop @Pybay 2017

pykids conducted a workshop for children 11 and above at PyBay 2017 on August 12th , 2017.

The workshop introduced the children to programming , how to use Jupyter notebooks and then went over the pykids curriculum step by step.

Meenal Pant in pykids

Jun 25, 2017

Ready to play Chess !

Here is a chess board that the pykids drew with simple for loops. Made colorful and visual with ipythonblocks

Chessboard notebook

Meenal Pant in pykids

Jul 19, 2017

PyKids @ PyBay 2017

Hello all ,

Very excited to announce a Pykids workshop at PyBay 2017 — https://pybay.com/

Hurry up and register your spot. Watch this space for more details soon!

Meenal Pant in pykids

Aug 2, 2017

Register for Pykids workshop asap !!!

Go to https://medium.com/@meenalpant/pykids-workshop-coming-to-pybay-2017-open-spaces-saturday-3-5pm-pst-658fd1c5cde1 and use the sign up form!

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