how to get dummies in a dataframe pandas

>>> s = pd.Series(list('abca'))

>>> pd.get_dummies(s)
   a  b  c
0  1  0  0
1  0  1  0
2  0  0  1
3  1  0  0

note:
dummies = pd.get_dummies(df[['column_1']], drop_first=True)

note:for more that one coloum keep ading in the list 
dummies = pd.get_dummies(df[['column_1', 'column_2','column_3']], drop_first=True)

df = pd.get_dummies(df, columns=['type'])