I assume a good Python book costs less than the course. In 1996 I got a job re-implementing a large statistical causal reasoning library from Pascal to Java. I bought a book called “Teach yourself Java in 21 days”. Within less than that time I had several large programs converted. I barely looked at the Pascal but at pseudocode descriptions of the algorithms instead.
Frank From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Friday, May 04, 2018 2:02 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Transforming the Postsecondary Professional Education Experience -- Campus Technology “As a measure of the magnitude of impact of MOOCs so far, one of our MOOC specializations in the Python programming language is among the most popular offerings on Coursera — I believe that it has reached more than a million learners at this point. A significant fraction of those learners have opted to sit for an exam to get a certificate in Python programming.” <Huff> A person that seeks a Coursera class to learn Python is not destined for a career in software development. “Also, we introduced an Applied Data Science specialization about a year ago. That one, though not receiving enrollments at quite the same level as the Python specialization, is generating tens of thousands of learners per quarter.” Thousands of learners or thousands of people who create a filtering problem for recruiting departments? Marcus From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Tom Johnson <[email protected]> Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Date: Friday, May 4, 2018 at 1:47 PM To: "Friam@redfish. com" <[email protected]> Subject: [FRIAM] Transforming the Postsecondary Professional Education Experience -- Campus Technology Image removed by sender. Perhaps of interest.... Transforming the Postsecondary Professional Education Experience A Q&A with Thomas A. Finholt https://campustechnology.com/Articles/2018/04/16/Transforming-the-Postsecondary-Professional-Education-Experience.aspx?s=ct_in_040518 <https://www.cloudhq.io/mail_track/link/7986e443446b1e001024a94023e95373?uid=226430&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcampustechnology.com%2FArticles%2F2018%2F04%2F16%2FTransforming-the-Postsecondary-Professional-Education-Experience.aspx%3Fs%3Dct_in_040518%26mkt_tok%3DeyJpIjoiTVRFeE1EVTVPRFJtTWpSaSIsInQiOiJCOGhlK2U2d3l5R3BodGpScFQrUk5MNlNGWnh5Y3EreWtYVnhtWm1MY01DcXkwTWN2OTBxa25oVFdMa3Y0RDd2NklUNGtFMTFWU2ZnM3g0SCtQUE05VWlaaWM1MXRzSld0UWg5WmZVM1prV2hKSWZ3N3RvTTBoTWlVMFJQYlJiZiJ9%26Page%3D1> &mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRFeE1EVTVPRFJtTWpSaSIsInQiOiJCOGhlK2U2d3l5R3BodGpScFQrUk5MNlNGWnh5Y3EreWtYVnhtWm1MY01DcXkwTWN2OTBxa25oVFdMa3Y0RDd2NklUNGtFMTFWU2ZnM3g0SCtQUE05VWlaaWM1MXRzSld0UWg5WmZVM1prV2hKSWZ3N3RvTTBoTWlVMFJQYlJiZiJ9&Page=1
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