PyTamaro Summer Academy

Five-Day Summer Academy at the Software Institute at USI in Lugano

Learn programming by decomposing graphics and recomposing them as programs. Experience the sound theoretical foundations of programming combined with the unbounded creativity and playfulness of computer graphics. Use the most prevalent programming language, Python, and the (we think) greatest Python graphics library, PyTamaro.

MultilingualDeutsch ∙ Italiano ∙ English

The PyTamaro library currently supports German, Italian, and English. In this summer academy we will speak them all. Join us, and learn to program in your native language!

Teachers & StudentsLearn Together

Programming is a collaborative activity. To participate in this summer academy, you need to come as a team: each teacher brings along 1-3 students. Or we team you up.

Learning and FunMinds that Match our Mountains

The summer academy will take place at USI in Lugano, but we will explore the beautiful surroundings. Yes, we will discover PyTamaro. But also Monte Tamaro!

Programming: Deep like Mathematics, Creative like Art

Theoretical FoundationsConnect to Algebra and Logic

The contents is informed by concepts from algebra you might know from middle school, all the way to abstract algebra and logic one would learn at university.

Creativity & Playfulness(De)Compose Art, Design, and Games

Starting with the composition of simple geometric shapes, we will end up composing graphics inspired by contemporary art, design, and game design.

Organizers

The PyTamaro Summer Academy is brought to you by the Lugano Computing Education Research Lab at the Software Institute of USI.

Matthias HauswirthProfessor of Informatics

Matthias has been teaching programming, at university and for teacher training, for a quarter of a century, and he still loves it.

Agnese ZamboniStudent of Informatics

Agnese is studying informatics at USI, and she is contributing to PyTamaro funded by an USI Didactics Innovation grant.

Software InstituteAward-Winning Teaching & Research

At the Software Institute at USI we discover, design, and develop new ideas that ease the conception of modern software systems.

Location

The PyTamaro Summer Academy will take place at USI, the Università della Svizzera italiana, in beautiful Lugano. The USI Campus is within walking distance from the lake and the city center. There are trains, cable cars, and gondolas up many of the nearby mountains, several of them easily reachable on foot or by public transportation.

Photo of Tamaro-Lema Hike, View of Lugano

Lugano is full of hotels, many of them within walking distance from USI. Some examples are Hotel City, right next to campus, Hotel Lido Seegarten, at the lake front, and Hotel Zurigo Downtown and Hotel Pestalozzi, in the city center. And the Youth Hostel Lugano Savosa has a swimming pool and palm trees, and includes breakfast! Like a hotel, but unlike AirBnBs, it also includes a Ticino Ticket for free public transportation within Ticino.

For more information or pre-registration, contact Matthias.Hauswirth@usi.ch.

Logo of PyTamaro

PyTamaro is a project created by the Lugano Computing Education Research Lab at the Software Institute of USI