On the heels of my aggressive competence post, about (among other things) my failure to outline my expectations for students, I've started putting together a page to help manage student expectations for the pony-build project, which is participating in the Undergraduate Capstone Open-Source Projects (UCOSP) course this term.
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This last term I facilitated the participation of five MSU students in the Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects (UCOSP) program, in which students do distributed open source software development and receive home institution credit. UCOSP was managed out of U Toronto by Greg Wilson, and I was (and am) enthusiastic …
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I'm looking for examples of frustratingly simple-yet-wrong Python code, suitable for an undergrad class to debug. I'd prefer things that don't rely on tricky features of Python (like shared list references), but rather code where subtly bad logic or program flow leads to bad behavior.
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After being on the new Python diversity mailing list for a bit, I've just unsubscribed. While there was an unpleasant personal incident that catalyzed my decision, I also don't think I'm a good fit for the style of discussion taking place. (YMMV ;)
That having been said, I want to give …
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Just a short note with characteristic inhumility (ahumility? abhumility?) -- for my Concepts in Database-Backed Web Programming course, I received the Withrow Award for Teaching Excellence from the students.
This means a lot to me, because I spent a huge amount of time on that course (and will have to do …
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(This blog post is a long, rambling retrospective on my recent undergrad comp-sci course at Michigan State U., newly renamed to "Concepts in Database-backed Web Programming".)
I set out this term to teach a CS class in the way I would have wanted it taught when I was an undergrad …
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On Tuesday (June 12), Wednesday, and Thursday I taught the course "Intermediate and Advanced Software Carpentry in Python" at Lawrence Livermore National Labs. This was intended to be an extension of some of the ideas from the Software Carpentry course.
The pre-course course advert, the handouts distributed at the course …
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