This is really great. Just wondering why you didn't go with python 3? Also, how do students cope with try/except without an exception being delineated? Could be that they type a variable wrong in the try block but python won't report the error? There are a lot of non-professional programmers who I'm going to ask to read it, so they aren't as scared of code... :) Nice. Adam
> On Apr 1, 2014, at 12:43 PM, 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
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