Hi Gerard, That's a very insightful account. Thanks for sharing! I'll be teaching an intro programming course for geologists next semester and will certainly use your experience as a starting ground. Are your lecture notes/notebooks available anywhere? I'm most interested in the practical examples from geophysics (I'm a geophysicist).
Regards, Leonardo On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Christian Jacobs <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Many thanks for spotting and reporting that typo - the numerator should > indeed be (2A+B-D-2E). I've corrected this now in the paper's Git > repository. > > Cheers, > Christian > > Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 16:27:59 +0100 >> From: Ben Waugh <[email protected]> >> To: "Gorman, Gerard J" <[email protected]> >> Cc: Software Carpentry Discussion >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Discuss] teaching intro programming to undergrads >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed >> >> >> 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 >> > >> > >> > This body part will be downloaded on demand. >> > >> >> -- >> Dr Ben Waugh Tel. +44 (0)20 7679 7223 >> Computing and IT Manager Internal: 37223 >> Dept of Physics and Astronomy >> University College London >> London WC1E 6BT >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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