OT: Ideas for a first course using Python

[mikhail.savitsky at gmail.com]

On Feb 22, 2:20 am, Mike Driscoll <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 21, 4:48 pm, ishwar.rat... at gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > Sorry to butt in but I am shopping for some ideas.
>
> > I am interested in putting together a programming course for non-
> > programmers (outside the computer science domain) based on Pyhton. I
> > envision the course
> > similar to ones that used old-Basic interpreter.
>
> > Any one out there has such a course (already designed) or has some
> > experience
> > of such a course?
>
> > What could be a list of topics to be addressed in such a course
> > (domain), other
> > than the language syntax?
>
> > -ishwar
>
> This guy's been doing it for a while now as a college course:http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/python-first.html
>
> Mike

You might want to take a look at

http://swc.scipy.org/lec/unified.html

It is superb and fits nicely your description.

HTH

Mikhail