Hi Gerard, This is great to see- thank you for collecting this data and sharing! Best, Eric
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Gorman, Gerard J <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > We finally got around to writing up our experiences with teaching > introductory programming programming using python. Our interest is teaching > students outside of cs where there is already a busy curriculum. It > basically tracks 5 years experience from teaching using a traditional > lecture style (which was a disaster) to a software carpentry style (which > the students *love*). > > Recently there was some discussion on the list about teaching undergraduates > and literature supporting choice for first programming languages etc. We > have tried to provide sufficient coverage of the literature to support these > choices - hopefully any of you making the case in your own faculty might > find these references useful. > > The preprint is here: > http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05425 > > We have just submitted it for review and so will have another round of > editing before final publication. Please let me know if you have any > comments, criticisms suggests, citations missed etc. > > Regards > Gerard > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
