<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I just wanted to let you know about a new Free University of Michigan Python course I am teaching on Coursera called "Programming for Everybody".</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/pythonlearn">https://www.coursera.org/course/pythonlearn</a></div><div><br></div><div>The idea of the course is not to be a first Computer Science course - but instead to be a "programming literacy" / "computational thinking" aimed at somewhere between middle of high school and freshman in college or adult learners looking for an "on ramp" for learning about technology.</div><div><br></div><div>The course is based on 100% CC-BY materials available from:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://open.umich.edu/education/si/coursera-programming-everybody/winter2014">http://open.umich.edu/education/si/coursera-programming-everybody/winter2014</a></div><div><br></div><div>We not only provide the slides and sample code uncer CC, but also ready-to-load course exports from Blackboard and Moodle. There is also an open source Skulpt-based auto-grader that is part of the course that I host and make available at no charge as long as I don't run out of resources my University of Michigan-provided servers.</div><div><br></div><div>The book is a heavily adapted variant of Allen Downey and Jeff Elkner's Think Python book. It is about 80% all new and published as "Python for Informatics". All the electronic copies (including an iBooks version with embedded video tutorials) are free and the printed textbook is $8.99 on Amazon.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.pythonlearn.com/book.php">http://www.pythonlearn.com/book.php</a></div><div><br></div><div>I am hoping to use the high-profile of Coursera to attract a wide range of students and teachers from around the world to get a basic introduction to programming in Python in a way that they can perhaps take their skills and materials back and teach them locally. I am hoping to create a learning community that can hep increase the number of high school and community college teachers who can competently teach a Python class.</div><div><br></div><div>I would hope that you might share this with various high school and college teachers that you think might be interested in participating in the course.</div><div><br></div><div>I owe thanks to lots of folks in the Python Edu community who did early work that I have built upon like Jeff, Allen, and Brad Miller (Skulpt). </div><div><br></div><div>Let me know if you have any questions or comments.</div><div><br></div><div>Charles Severance</div><div>University of Michigan </div><div>School of Information</div><div><a href="http://www.dr-chuck.com">www.dr-chuck.com</a></div><div><br></div></body></html>