Hi Gerard,
Many thanks for writing this. When planning our own changes it is
valuable to see what others in related fields have already tried and how
it worked.
One typo I spotted on a quick first read: the formula in 2.1.2 should
presumably have (2A+B-D-2E) in the numerator rather than (2A+B-C-2D).
Cheers
Ben
On 21/05/15 05:50, Gorman, Gerard J 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
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