Hey, that's great that the python course will be longer. I think that's a good idea.
While Jan can answer a lot of questions, I am also happy to answer from the perspective of someone who has taught a "review" course. It was a very interesting and rewarding experience. I would apply to do it again next year but I am coming up for tenure and the timing is not so good, but I definitely hope to teach at AIMS again. Feel free to email me off-list: mhampton at d dot umn dot edu. Marshall Hampton On Apr 15, 5:07 am, pipedream <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I am the IT Manager atwww.aims.ac.zain Cape Town, South > Africa, > where Marshall Hampton (biopython spkg) recently taught a course. We > teach > some of the best students across Africa in a 4th or 5th year > postgraduate > diploma preparing them for a masters in research. I have a > little > involvement in the academic programme, especially where open > source > scientific computing comes > in. > > The programme has three phases, "skills courses", "review > courses", > and "essay phase". Our skills phase include courses > called > "Mathematical problem solving", "Mathematical methods", > and > "Software development using python". They have > similarities > and overlap with William Stein's 480b course (below) > which > I noticed on sage-edu recently,http://wiki.wstein.org/09/480b > The courses were historically based on scipy and maxima, > and > are now starting to include > SAGE. > > The programme is divided into three-week slots with 30 > contact > hours, and a lot of practical computational work > historically > in scipy and maxima, now including more SAGE. The > python > course is increased to 6 weeks. There is some > flexibility > in the dates and topics of the first few courses mentioned > above > AIMS provides several tutors to assist lecturers in > tutorials > and grading and so > on. > > If you are interested, please > visithttp://www.aims.ac.za/english/courseguidelines.php > > I'd be happy to answer any queries you have or > give > you more information if you were interested now or > in > the future. I am sometimes on #sage-devel as > 'pipedream'. > > regards, > Jan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
