Gonna try and see if it fits my students' interest. Would be happy to report if you want. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Charles Severance <c...@umich.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wanted to let you know about a new Free University of Michigan > Python course I am teaching on Coursera called "Programming for Everybody". > > https://www.coursera.org/course/pythonlearn > > The idea of the course is not to be a first Computer Science course - but > instead to be a "programming literacy" / "computational thinking" aimed at > somewhere between middle of high school and freshman in college or adult > learners looking for an "on ramp" for learning about technology. > > The course is based on 100% CC-BY materials available from: > > > http://open.umich.edu/education/si/coursera-programming-everybody/winter2014 > > We not only provide the slides and sample code uncer CC, but also > ready-to-load course exports from Blackboard and Moodle. There is also an > open source Skulpt-based auto-grader that is part of the course that I host > and make available at no charge as long as I don't run out of resources my > University of Michigan-provided servers. > > The book is a heavily adapted variant of Allen Downey and Jeff Elkner's > Think Python book. It is about 80% all new and published as "Python for > Informatics". All the electronic copies (including an iBooks version with > embedded video tutorials) are free and the printed textbook is $8.99 on > Amazon. > > http://www.pythonlearn.com/book.php > > I am hoping to use the high-profile of Coursera to attract a wide range of > students and teachers from around the world to get a basic introduction to > programming in Python in a way that they can perhaps take their skills and > materials back and teach them locally. I am hoping to create a learning > community that can hep increase the number of high school and community > college teachers who can competently teach a Python class. > > I would hope that you might share this with various high school and > college teachers that you think might be interested in participating in the > course. > > I owe thanks to lots of folks in the Python Edu community who did early > work that I have built upon like Jeff, Allen, and Brad Miller (Skulpt). > > Let me know if you have any questions or comments. > > Charles Severance > University of Michigan > School of Information > www.dr-chuck.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > -- Roberto
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