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Engineers Code: re-usable, open educational modules for engineering undergraduates

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Now at #SciPy2018: "SimuPy: A Python Framework for Modeling and Simulating Dynamical Systems"—a budding alternative… https://t.co/MO29P9ihVm View // Reply // Retweet // Like

@RobertTalbert Nope. I don't use any protector on the screen and there are no scratches. I wipe it with a microfiber cloth, not so often. View // Reply // Retweet // Like

A collaboration to issue badges in #numericalmooc

Lorena Barba

Announcing a collaboration with Prof. Daniel T. Hickey (Indiana University Center for Research on Learning and Technology) to award badges in our independent MOOC, "Practical Numerical Methods with Python." When I was writing the short, internal proposal for creating what is now GW's first massive open online course (MOOC), I had a handful of clear... Continue »

RT @abursuc: The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world https://t.co/UJQmQAsNUz View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Announcing "Practical Numerical Methods with Python" MOOC

Aug. 6—New! Course site now open for registrations! As announced at SciPy 2014 (July 8), I will be teaching a numerical methods course at GW this Fall semester that will be connected with three other courses around the world, and also with an independent MOOC titled "Practical Numerical Methods with Python." This is a collaboration... Continue »

"good old-fashioned sexism … and a default cultural preference for institutionalized male domination of public life" http://t.co/1KO4Jm8q1M View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Prof. Barba gave keynote at SciPy 2014

If there's computational thinking, there's computational learning

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Seymour Papert: An Exploration in the Space of Mathematics Educations, 1996—use computational thinking to forge ideas http://t.co/FRhmUdtSzl View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Students make fewer syntax & logic errors in Python and transition to a 2nd language without problems—@lindamannila http://t.co/if9CMW6phf View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Why I push for Python

Lorena Barba

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 »