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Numba: Tell those C++ bullies to get lost
Numba: Tell those C++ bullies to get lost by Gil Forsyth This is the title of our SciPy 2016 tutorial, where we take aim at those who claim Python is not for science because its performance stinks. Wake up, world! You've been able to make Python codes fast for a long time, with Cython,... Continue »
Announcing AeroPython!
I haven't lectured in two years. I've of course been teaching, but have stopped using the method known as "the lecture"—delivering a set amount of material (aka, "covering") from the front of the classroom to a group of mostly quiet, note-taking students. Like greater profs before me, I am a converted lecturer.1 It was Spring... Continue »
Proposal: Just-in-time Interactive Online Modules for Applied Engineering Computing
This short proposal was submitted in November 2013 to the Grants for High-Impact Teaching and Learning Practices of The Office of Teaching & Learning, George Washington University.
We propose to develop and pilot a series of interactive online modules that teach programming in... Continue »
Student guest blog post: pterosaur weight estimation
The second in a series of blog posts by the students of "Bio-aerial Locomotion" at GW, and part of a collaborative and interactive study of some controversial issues about giant pterosaurs' ability to fly. The first student guest blog post (by Akash Druv and Alex Golding) addresses the quadrupedal-launch thesis of Prof. Michael Habib (and... Continue »
Student guest blog post: pterosaur quad launch
This is the first of a series of blog posts from students' course work for the "Bio-aerial Locomotion" class at GW's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. The students explore several controversial topics about a giant pterosaur's ability to fly. Some background On Sept. 22, 2013, Prof. Michael Habib (who was a guest speaker in our... Continue »
A successful student-led (flipped) class on avian wings
A sign that I still need to trust students to be able and willing to lead their own learning is that I had 70 slides prepared for this class (most of them pictures, of course). A sign that this was a successful student-led (flipped) class is that I only got to project one slide—a single... Continue »