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Prof. Barba gave keynote at SciPy 2014
If there's computational thinking, there's computational learning
Slides from the keynote talk at the Scientific Python conference, SciPy 2014, Austin, TX.
Dedication:
In a departure with academic custom, this talk is dedicated to my grandparents. On Sunday, July 6, as I was packing my bags... Continue »
Two group members graduated!
Why I push for Python
My colleagues are puzzled by my relentless push of Python as the language to teach programming to our undergraduates. They look at me funny, each time that the subject comes up and I can't help vehemently insisting "Python!" It's natural to be skeptical of someone championing a programming language; we've all seen the language wars... Continue »
Reproducible Research, Uncertainty Quantification and Verification & Validation
Slides used with my presentation in the SIAM Uncertainty Quantification Conference 2014, Minisymposium on "The Reliability of Computational Research Findings: Reproducible Research, Uncertainty Quantification, and Verification & Validation."
The talk used an audience response system to collect True/False or <... Continue »
AeroPython
The AeroPython series of lessons is the core of a university course (Aerodynamics-Hydrodynamics, MAE-6226) by Prof. Lorena A. Barba at the George Washington University. The first version ran in Spring 2014 and these Jupyter Notebooks were prepared for that class, with assistance from Barba-group PhD... Continue »