Re: [Edu-sig] Looking for a course syllabus exemplars for a high school year-long course in Python/Javascript
Roberto, Thank you for recommending our Math and Python book, but your amazon link is to the old edition. The current edition is at http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Digital-Age-Programming-Python/dp/09824775..., also available at www.skylit.com. Gary Litvin At 04:47 AM 2/20/2014, roberto wrote:
Hi Clint, I was in your very situation in the past, and these are resources I consider good: - <http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Digital-Age-Programming-Python/dp/0972705589>http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Digital-Age-Programming-Python/dp/0972705589 - http://inventwithpython.com/ - <https://www.udacity.com/course/cs101>https://www.udacity.com/course/cs101
According to the level of your students, and yours as well, you might be more comfortable with one or more of the above mentioned. I regularly run robotics after-school courses but I've never found extremely helpful Python on NXT, for a number of technical glitches on it. I prefer to focus on the learning way more than on the technical aspects of the business.
Hope this helps! Have a great day. Roberto.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Clint Johns <<mailto:clint.m.johns@gmail.com>clint.m.johns@gmail.com> wrote: Greetings Python community,
I have been asked to create an introduction to programming course, with an emphasis on Python and JavaScript, for this upcoming school year.
My knowledge of Python is beginning/intermediate, but I am willing to learn in order to make this a viable course. I am interested in interfacing with LEGO NXT and EV3 robotics kits, and possibly designing some games.
If any of you can point me to some resources, it would be of great help, and I would be extremely thankful.
Continued success in all you do,
Clint Johns computer science teacher San Francisco Bay Area, CA
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wow, I didn't know that, thanks for sharing Roberto On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Litvin <litvin@skylit.com> wrote:
Roberto,
Thank you for recommending our *Math and Python* book, but your amazon link is to the old edition. The current edition is at http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Digital-Age-Programming-Python/dp/09824775..., also available at www.skylit.com.
Gary Litvin
At 04:47 AM 2/20/2014, roberto wrote:
Hi Clint, I was in your very situation in the past, and these are resources I consider good: - http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Digital-Age-Programming-Python/dp/09727055... - http://inventwithpython.com/ - https://www.udacity.com/course/cs101
According to the level of your students, and yours as well, you might be more comfortable with one or more of the above mentioned. I regularly run robotics after-school courses but I've never found extremely helpful Python on NXT, for a number of technical glitches on it. I prefer to focus on the learning way more than on the technical aspects of the business.
Hope this helps! Have a great day. Roberto.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Clint Johns <clint.m.johns@gmail.com > wrote: Greetings Python community,
I have been asked to create an introduction to programming course, with an emphasis on Python and JavaScript, for this upcoming school year.
My knowledge of Python is beginning/intermediate, but I am willing to learn in order to make this a viable course. I am interested in interfacing with LEGO NXT and EV3 robotics kits, and possibly designing some games.
If any of you can point me to some resources, it would be of great help, and I would be extremely thankful.
Continued success in all you do,
Clint Johns computer science teacher San Francisco Bay Area, CA
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An excellent textbook, mentioned (by me) recently in this ongoing thread: http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2620194 Kirby On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:54 PM, roberto <roberto03@gmail.com> wrote:
wow, I didn't know that, thanks for sharing
Roberto
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Litvin <litvin@skylit.com> wrote:
Roberto,
Thank you for recommending our *Math and Python* book, but your amazon link is to the old edition. The current edition is at http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Digital-Age-Programming-Python/dp/09824775..., also available at www.skylit.com.
Gary Litvin
Sorry, I couldn't find it, would you past the link to the textbook? I sifted through your post but couldn't find it. Thanks for sharing. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:59 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
An excellent textbook, mentioned (by me) recently in this ongoing thread:
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2620194
Kirby
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:54 PM, roberto <roberto03@gmail.com> wrote:
wow, I didn't know that, thanks for sharing
Roberto
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Litvin <litvin@skylit.com> wrote:
Roberto,
Thank you for recommending our *Math and Python* book, but your amazon link is to the old edition. The current edition is at http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Digital-Age-Programming-Python/dp/09824775..., also available at www.skylit.com.
Gary Litvin
-- Roberto
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:03 AM, roberto <roberto03@gmail.com> wrote: Sorry, I couldn't find it, would you past the link to the textbook? I sifted through your post but couldn't find it.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi Roberto -- What I meant was, 'Mathematics for the Digital Age...' (which you already know about) is an excellent textbook, and I mentioned it in that thread. I wonder if you were thinking a meant some *other* book. Quoting from the thread I linked to: """ Clearly, at one end of the spectrum we have books like 'Mathematics for the Digital Age and Programming in Python' (used at Phillips / Andover, a college prep high school, by the authors). At the other end of the spectrum we have textbooks showing little-to-no-awareness of the doors one could be opening in high school, to the prospective CS major. We can score them accordingly, and what I'm looking for is criteria. A high school math course should open as many doors as practical and being CS-friendly in this day and age is an important criterion. I'm telling parents what they can look for, even if teachers don't seem to care. Look for examples of functions that are non-numeric in nature. """ http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=9391791 Related: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mathfuture/GszzTxcxEoE Kirby On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:59 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
An excellent textbook, mentioned (by me) recently in this ongoing thread:
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2620194
Kirby
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:54 PM, roberto <roberto03@gmail.com> wrote:
wow, I didn't know that, thanks for sharing
Roberto
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Litvin <litvin@skylit.com> wrote:
Roberto,
Thank you for recommending our *Math and Python* book, but your amazon link is to the old edition. The current edition is at http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Digital-Age-Programming-Python/dp/09824775..., also available at www.skylit.com.
Gary Litvin
-- Roberto
Thank you all for the great resources!!! On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:10 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:03 AM, roberto <roberto03@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry, I couldn't find it, would you past the link to the textbook? I sifted through your post but couldn't find it.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi Roberto --
What I meant was, 'Mathematics for the Digital Age...' (which you already know about) is an excellent textbook, and I mentioned it in that thread. I wonder if you were thinking a meant some *other* book.
Quoting from the thread I linked to:
""" Clearly, at one end of the spectrum we have books like 'Mathematics for the Digital Age and Programming in Python' (used at Phillips / Andover, a college prep high school, by the authors).
At the other end of the spectrum we have textbooks showing little-to-no-awareness of the doors one could be opening in high school, to the prospective CS major. We can score them accordingly, and what I'm looking for is criteria.
A high school math course should open as many doors as practical and being CS-friendly in this day and age is an important criterion. I'm telling parents what they can look for, even if teachers don't seem to care. Look for examples of functions that are non-numeric in nature. """
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=9391791
Related:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mathfuture/GszzTxcxEoE
Kirby
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:59 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com>wrote:
An excellent textbook, mentioned (by me) recently in this ongoing thread:
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2620194
Kirby
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:54 PM, roberto <roberto03@gmail.com> wrote:
wow, I didn't know that, thanks for sharing
Roberto
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Litvin <litvin@skylit.com> wrote:
Roberto,
Thank you for recommending our *Math and Python* book, but your amazon link is to the old edition. The current edition is at http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Digital-Age-Programming-Python/dp/09824775..., also available at www.skylit.com.
Gary Litvin
-- Roberto
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thanks Kirby, I just misunderstood Roberto On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Clint Johns <clint.m.johns@gmail.com>wrote:
Thank you all for the great resources!!!
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:10 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com>wrote:
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:03 AM, roberto <roberto03@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry, I couldn't find it, would you past the link to the textbook? I sifted through your post but couldn't find it.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi Roberto --
What I meant was, 'Mathematics for the Digital Age...' (which you already know about) is an excellent textbook, and I mentioned it in that thread. I wonder if you were thinking a meant some *other* book.
Quoting from the thread I linked to:
""" Clearly, at one end of the spectrum we have books like 'Mathematics for the Digital Age and Programming in Python' (used at Phillips / Andover, a college prep high school, by the authors).
At the other end of the spectrum we have textbooks showing little-to-no-awareness of the doors one could be opening in high school, to the prospective CS major. We can score them accordingly, and what I'm looking for is criteria.
A high school math course should open as many doors as practical and being CS-friendly in this day and age is an important criterion. I'm telling parents what they can look for, even if teachers don't seem to care. Look for examples of functions that are non-numeric in nature. """
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=9391791
Related:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mathfuture/GszzTxcxEoE
Kirby
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:59 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com>wrote:
An excellent textbook, mentioned (by me) recently in this ongoing thread:
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2620194
Kirby
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:54 PM, roberto <roberto03@gmail.com> wrote:
wow, I didn't know that, thanks for sharing
Roberto
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Litvin <litvin@skylit.com> wrote:
Roberto,
Thank you for recommending our *Math and Python* book, but your amazon link is to the old edition. The current edition is at http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Digital-Age-Programming-Python/dp/09824775..., also available at www.skylit.com.
Gary Litvin
-- Roberto
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