I'm ramping up with Saturday Academy having met with their IT Chief regarding getting Python distro Anaconda on the schools Windows laptops, though at the moment we're thinking a Reed College Mac OSX classroom may be our venue. Next month is the target date.
That's where I taught Martian Math before, but sans any Jupyter Notebooks [0]. "Martian Math" unifies two threads I've been leaving posts about this month: (A) getting into 3rd party functions around numpy, pandas and geopandas, even pre-college, looks good on a "resume" (as in "in the summer of 2018 I learned to use Jupyter Notebooks while studying geometric concepts using Python"). (B) the set of concepts I've circled in my Digital Mathematics: Heuristics for Teachers website at Wikieducator. A "glue topic" is "HP4E" named in honor of "CP4E" the latter being in some ways the raison d'être of this mailman listserv.[1] Not many schools yet have access to DGGS systems (Discrete Global Grid Systems) but we may anticipate many will in the near future. Open source appears to be moving in this direction. https://youtu.be/JWl4ZPrb5Ag (hexapent) https://www.slideshare.net/ClintonDow/dggs-python-geopython-2017 (a slide deck) Speaking of DGGS and HP4E, I got geopandas working today [2], though I first made the mistake of thinking a simple: conda install geopandas (not the right way!) was gonna work. On the contrary, you need something more like: conda create -n geopandas python=3.6 geopandas -c condo-forge (try this!) i.e. let the conda-forge repo put all the dependences in a fresh new environment. Don’t over-install on the default Anaconda distro. I see from exploring Stackoverflow and so on that a lot of developers have made this mistake. Kirby [0] https://youtu.be/vk-cpknOz9E (10 minute Youtube on the genesis of Martian Math) [1] https://www.python.org/doc/essays/cp4e/ [2] http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2018/05/geopandas.html
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