Some Suggested Topics

Using Python

• explain how python packages are organized, the PyPI site, virtual environments, and the pip command
• demonstrate a Python package that allows you to read and/or write an application-specific file format (e.g. PDF, word processor, or spreadsheet).
• show how a Python script can be turned into a stand-alone application

Networking Applications

• demonstrate how you can use Python to retrieve web pages and extract data from them (e.g. using the requests and beautiful soup packages)
• show how Python can be integrated into a web server. This could be a simple wsgi script, a simple framework such as CherryPy or a complex one such as Django.

Data Analysis and Plotting

• compare Numpy with Matlab
• explain the Pandas dataframe data structures and how they compare to spreadsheets
• give an overview of some SciPy packages that you think your colleagues would find interesting (e.g. matplotlib and seaborn)

Gaming and GUIs

• develop a simple game using pygame, pyglet or other Python-based graphics package
• develop a GUI application using a package such as appJar, TkInter, pyqt, wxpython

Other

• demonstrate Micropython runing on a microcontroller
• demonstrate an OpenCV application runing on the Raspberry Pi
• demonstrate Tensorflow (using its Python API)