Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
(Sujatha) Object-oriented programming can feel impossibly abstract to students, and demoralising to the teacher facing a class of blank stares, until you bring in Pikachu. This presentation shows how Pokemon naturally demonstrates every OOP concept we might struggle to teach, from basic classes to inheritance.
Instead of the standard "Car" and "Animal" examples, students work through boiler plate code to predict, debug and eventually create classes and objects, to design and build battle systems.
You'll see student work samples, and walk away with some different ideas on approaching teaching with OOP.
pretalx.com/pycon-au-2025/talk/XXXRFG
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PyCon AU is the national conference for the Python programming community, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers, sysadmins and operations folk, students, educators, scientists, statisticians, and many others besides, all with a love for working with Python.
Licensed as CC BY-NC-SA - creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Produced by Next Day Video Australia: https://nextdayvideo.com.au
Fri Sep 12 11:00:00 2025 at Ballroom 3
(Sujatha) Object-oriented programming can feel impossibly abstract to students, and demoralising to the teacher facing a class of blank stares, until you bring in Pikachu. This presentation shows how Pokemon naturally demonstrates every OOP concept we might struggle to teach, from basic classes to inheritance.
Instead of the standard "Car" and "Animal" examples, students work through boiler plate code to predict, debug and eventually create classes and objects, to design and build battle systems.
You'll see student work samples, and walk away with some different ideas on approaching teaching with OOP.
pretalx.com/pycon-au-2025/talk/XXXRFG
python, pycon, australia, programming, conference, technical, developers, panel, sessions, libraries, frameworks, community, sysadmins, students, education, data, science
Videos licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
PyCon AU is the national conference for the Python programming community, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers, sysadmins and operations folk, students, educators, scientists, statisticians, and many others besides, all with a love for working with Python.
Licensed as CC BY-NC-SA - creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Produced by Next Day Video Australia: https://nextdayvideo.com.au
Fri Sep 12 11:00:00 2025 at Ballroom 3
