teaching

Collaborations Workshop 2018 - 2018-03-26 Streamlining JupyterLab as a teaching tool Reporter Tania R Allard - t.allard@sheffield.ac.uk Participants Tania Allard, Matt Williams, Mark Dawson, Jeremy Cohen, Sam Mangham, Robin Long Context / Research Domain The problem covers the domain of training and education for new users of interpreted languages. Problem Existing tools to support training are either too simplistic, resulting in a steep learning curve for students who need to install complex environments and understand packaging systems or command-line REPL interfaces, or too complex, aiming to streamline the user experience to a level that presents too many choices and provides a cluttered interface....

Collaborations Workshop 2018 - 2018-03-26 Group D - Collaborative Ideas - CI12-CW18 Reporter Neil Chue Hong - n.chuehong@googlemail.com Participants Geraint Palmer Eike Muller Diana Suleimenova Becky Arnold Kenneth Hansen Neil Chue Hong Initial ideas: Giving instantaneous feedback to students on the quality of their programming Updating f2py to work with Python 3 (this may already be done in numpy) Py2f to call python from Fortran Visualising your data in many common visualisations to help you choose the right one Improving Diana’s visualisations of refugee migration simulations Context / Research Domain Teaching programming to researchers across all research domains....