This week, I’ll get your input and kick the tires on my Python Intensive curriculum that I’ll be teaching next week in the D-Lab (preceded by a “what is programming?” workshop).
I’d love to get your input, but even more I’d love it if you can assist teaching! I especially need someone for Tuesday: 10am-noon for programming FUNdamentals and 1-4pm for the Python Intensive. But we can also use folks Wed-Fri from 1-4pm.
Updating the Site
Note that I updated last weeks event with links to the presentations (and the links to ipynb files are automatically munged w/ nbviewer links via some moderately brittle javascript).
Anyone can update the site via a pull request on GitHub! You’ll get points, and can compete with some of these heavy hitters.
That’s right - the Python Workers’ Party has it’s own digital currency, and you can even mine your own points using pull requests (and ask if you don’t know how!). But please use this power responsibly.
Discussion
We have a lot of strong opinions. We had a lively discussion around how using VMs might save instructional time, but reduce the usage of python in the long run.
Teaching unit testing is hard. None of us know how to get people to write or even run tests without some sort of authority. I’ve heard tales of such things, though.
We’re thinking it’d be good to have some motivation. Here are some example papers and videos:
- Code and Data
- ADD YOUR OWN!