August 2016/Github
From charlesreid1
Goals:
- Teaching
- iPython notebooks
- Nice notebooks, re-usable material
Contents
Teaching
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.
D3
Mixing drinks on Tralfamadore: http://bl.ocks.org/monfera/2d2809d8458ffb81cc9acab2e65ed4ef
keen.io dashboards for D3 dashboard visualization skeletons: http://adilmoujahid.com/posts/2016/08/interactive-data-visualization-geospatial-d3-dc-leaflet-python/
Super fantastic set of notes: https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/data-institute-2016
Python Notebooks
More inspiring python notebooks: http://www.scipy-lectures.org/?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=fav