Hi, I am very grateful for this paper and you sharing your experiences, as I am in charge of developing a similar course for first-semester biology undergraduates. I have so far only watched the slides and skimmed the paper, but it looks to be very helpful!
Best, Lex Nederbragt > On 13 Jun 2016, at 14:17, Christian T. Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > > (I don't think this got through before as I was using an email address that > was not registered on the mailing list. Trying again...) > > 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]> >>> 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/listinfo/discuss
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