[Chicago] ChiPy is Awesome

[Randy Baxley]

iirc the 6.0 was the python intro course for MIT.  The lectures put me to
sleep but may not do that to others.  That kept me though from sticking
with their class.  I went over to the Coursera class for intro python from
U of Toronto and Dr. Chuck from U of Michigan who likes to try different
MOOCs.  Both of these did the type of testing you mentioned.  I found that
testing process interesting.  The Rice course used peer review instead.
 CodeSchool I think was the other one that had you submit code to a testing
process.

I think if their is an open source MOOC in python and Django it would be
very interesting to go through The Django Book and build a course for the
book.


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <yarkot1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Randy Baxley <randy7771026 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I am sort of plus 1 and minus one on that.
>>
>
> Ok...
>
>
>>  The EdX platform seemed ok but the 6.0 lecturers put me to sleep.
>>
>
> The course - any particular course is not the same as the delivery and
> development platform, you realize...
> (don't know what you mean by "the 6.0 lecturers...")
>
>
>>   I find the testing of student's functions interesting even when the
>> testing process fails working code because all possible solutions were not
>> tested.
>>
>
> The platform doesn't provide testing of student functions / code, the
> courseware author does.
> Again, I'm not sure if you're thinking in terms of the underlying system
> for delivery, and how it facilitates (where it does) for course authors to
> design their (basically) django apps to test student homework.
>
> For example, why would anyone test "all possible solutions" of code ...
> _ever_?
>
> For courseware, the solution has little to do with it being a django app
> underneath:   you can lint the language (enforce certain style guidelines
> as part of grading),  you can run unit and interface tests on the turned in
> assignments to ensure that functionality is achieved;   you can  look at
> code structure and size (programmatically).   These are interesting
> challenges in delivering MOOCs, but they are not about the edx django
> underpinnings.
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <yarkot1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> All of edx (Stanfird, Harvard,MIT) is a at core a big django solution.
>>>
>>> Would people be interested in hearing some basics, overview of that?
>>>  On Aug 28, 2013 10:17 PM, "Randy Baxley" <randy7771026 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1 for a Django talk
>>>>
>>>> I am stopped in chapter six of The Django Book while I prepare myself
>>>> mentally to tackle tarbell, virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper.
>>>>
>>>> I have enjoyed several MOOCs while learning basic Python.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Jason Wirth <wirth.jason at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think the DjangoCon focus is a good idea.
>>>>> +1 for anything on that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Awhile back I attended (Randy from Chipy did too) the "Global Meetup
>>>>> Day" for Udacity, a MOOC that uses Python almost exclusively. I'd be
>>>>> willing to give a lightning talk about Python/MOOC/continuing education
>>>>> stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>     wirth.jason at gmail.com
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