Hi Everybody, I need some advice. I've got a second year geography undergraduate doing a three month internship. I want him to do something with the Geoweb and with Python. He knows ESRI products (okay, ArcGIS 9.2) and a tiny bit of programming/scripting but that's it. As some of you know, I've got a grant to investigate the potential of the Geoweb to enable a dialogue between government and the public around issues of environmental/climate change. So it'd be good if his work could support the grant. Can you think an encapsulated thing that he could do in that time?
On another related matter, I'm part of a Microsoft initiative to determine what computer education should be taught to the next generation of scientists who are not computer scientists or software engineers. Obviously, I'm interested in the kinds of computing skills that geography/environment students would need to move from Web 1.0 GIS/mapping to the Geoweb. It's a challenge because of the limited number of non-major courses a student can take and the number of pre-requisites that are often required of cs or engineering courses. It's also a challenge because I would want them to essentially learn how to learn about software so even non-geeks can move with the innovations in Web 2.0 (3.0?). I'd appreciate any thoughts you might have. Thanks, Renee _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
