Renee, > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:geowanking- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R E Sieber > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Geowanking] Need some advice > > 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 that other matter: > 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. I found that initiative here very interesting: """ Software Carpentry Many scientists and engineers spend much of their lives programming, but only a handful have ever been taught how to do this well. As a result, they spend their time wrestling with software, instead of doing research, but have no idea how reliable or efficient their programs are. """ http://www.swc.scipy.org/ And most of the material is based on Python. Wish you success, Ivan _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
