Hi, For all of you who were interested, I've put the final version of my Masters' project report online at http://peter.mapledesign.co.uk/writings/physics/teaching-introductory-programming-to-physics-undergraduates.pdf.
The project has proved successful, as the school of Physics at the University of Southampton made the decision to use Python for all undergraduate physics courses using programming in the 2006/07 academic year (introductory programming course, equipment control in laboratories, and computational physics course). As yet it remains to be seen whether the approach used to teach programming will change, or just the language used. I will be returning on a voluntary basis in October to assist in the teaching laboratories and monitor the impact changing to Python has had on the understanding of the students. Any suggestions as to how to measure their understanding would be gratefully received, as the questionnaire I used last time didn't get very good responses! I'd like to thank this group for your input last year, and particularly to Bruce Sherin and Hans Fangohr for their extended emails over the year. Peter. -- Maple Design - quality web design and programming http://www.mapledesign.co.uk _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
