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.