August 2016/Github

Goals:

• Teaching
• iPython notebooks
• Nice notebooks, re-usable material

Inspiration: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-IPython-Notebooks#engineering-education

CSC 142 Topics:

• Procedural programming: methods
• Procedural programming: parameters
• Procedural programming: return values
• Control structures: sequence
• Control structures: if/else
• Control structures: for
• Control structures: while
• File processing
• Arrays
• Introduction to objects

MATH 107 Topics:

• units, percents, other essential math
• graphical methods
• intro to statistics
• std dev
• normal distributions
• linear functions

One of the things I like is the social justice aspect - giving students an understanding of how mathematics fits into the larger picture.

Trying to teach some of the most foundational, most essential mathematical conceptual models available. Cover the most cases with the fewest models possible.