[Tutor] Tutoring co-workers.

[Alan Gauld]

On 25/02/2022 21:59, trent shipley wrote:

> First, I was wondering if you could recommend any good, accessible
> textbooks with many exercises for brand new and C+/B- level programmers new
> to Python which could segue into Python plus statistics or Python plus
> reporting, and beyond that into very early Python plus data science.

There are fewer books around for that audience these days, most
things are now online. That was why I wrote my first python book
20 years ago and things are even worse today.


> assignments on fan-fold paper hard copy.  My professor (with an actual PhD)
> graded the code in beautiful red ink with all the care and attention of a
> composition instructor for college freshmen.  

Yes, I had one of those two. (And ironically, wound up working
with him a few years later!)


> programmers have never had the same academic formation I did.

Indeed, I think that's something most old school programmers
can recognize. There seems to be a lack of focus on computing
and more on just programming practice.

> I would like a coding environment where I can comment and edit code and
> other text like it was Microsoft Word in draft mode.  
<snip>

Nice idea but I don't know of any environment for any language like
that. Even dedicated teaching environments like the DRscheme etc
don't offer that.

With Agile programming promoting pair programming there might
be something of the sort out there, but I'm not aware of it.

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