Just a quick update on this: our paper on teaching Python to undergraduate
students has been through two rounds of peer review, and has now been
accepted for publication in the Journal of Geoscience Education. A
pre-print of the accepted version can be found here:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.05425v3.pdf

These slides on our use of sticky notes may also be of interest:
http://christianjacobs.uk/hen-2016-sticky-notes
(source: https://github.com/ctjacobs/hen-2016-sticky-notes)

Cheers,
Christian

On 22 May 2015 at 09:55, 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]>
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>>
>> 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.
>> >
>>
>> --
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>>
>>
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