[ see notes for my guide to names for Portland ] Greetings Pythonistas -- One of my usual updates regarding curriculum dev from my angle. These days I've been hacking on: https://github.com/4dsolutions/elite_school/blob/master/ADS_intro_1.ipynb https://github.com/4dsolutions/elite_school/blob/master/ADS_intro_2.ipynb https://github.com/4dsolutions/elite_school/blob/master/ADS_project_1.ipynb By the .ipynb extension you will see these are specialized JSON files eager to be fed through a Jupyter Notebook renderer, with or without a live Python kernel (or Julia, or...) to back it up. Github provides decent rendering and Pythonistas such as Jake VanderPlas (astronomy, U of W, Pycon keynoter) have long used a public repo for their Python textbooks. Feed a Github repo Notebook to Google's collab.research and bingo, you have interactivity! A related example (a notebook in the wild, Silicon Forest academia.edu): https://colab.research.google.com/github/4dsolutions/DigitalMathematics/blob... The "elite school" in question (per URLs) is here in Greater Portland. The school is owned and operated privately, however the curriculum materials remain free and open source, unlike at the "public schools" that eschew copyleft liberality. Feel free to fork and remix. The materials are still evolving and are under peer review (consider yourselves peers if you feel like providing feedback). The project (3rd notebook listed) is inspired by Wordle which -- at least in my little neck of the woods (idiom) -- seems quite popular these days. Kirby Bridge City: Portland has many bridges, all of them expected to not survive the next serious earthquake. Stump Town: refers to how the city got built: by chopping down all the trees for miles around, leaving hectares of tree stumps for the user's enjoyment. Rose City: lots of roses in the spring, many rose gardens (similar to Shiraz -- شیراز -- with which Portland hopes to pair as a sister city, with Seattle hoping for Isfahan). All relevant because Al Khwarizmi (first Notebook) is considered Persian. From the web, Nicknames for Portland: - City of Roses. - Stumptown. - Rip City. - Beervana. - PDX. - City of Churches. - Little Beirut. - Forbidden City of the West.