1 DCO142 - Python for InformaticsDr. Charles Severance online.dr-chuck.com

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3 Who Should Take This Course?Everyone! The world and most jobs are becoming increasingly networked and technology-centric You should have a basic understanding about how things work We will not turn you into a professional programmer - just give some understanding about the basics of programming.

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5 Clinical Associate Professor Office Hours: by appointment Dr. Charles Severance Clinical Associate Professor Office Hours: by appointment twitter.com/drchuck/

6 My previous job: Sakai / CTools ArchitectMy research topics: Software For Teaching and Learning, Web Lecture technologies, and High Performance Computing. I also work in developing standards for learning software interoperability Hobbies: Hockey, Off-Road Motorcycle Riding, Video

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10 Dr. Chuck’s First Programming Course Experience...

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12 Python Textbook Python for Informatics: Exploring InformationAuthor: Charles Severance Free as a PDF, HTML, and iBooks - Available the the Espresso (Shapiro Library) $12

13 Open Content The textbook is CC - ShareAlikeMy lecture Slides are Creative Commons By Attribution My Recorded Videos are available on YouTube and CC-BY All software is open source I will publish the course structure as Moodle Backup and IMS Common Cartridge once the course is complete

14 Looking for Teachers I want to teach and empower other teachers to teach this material I want to empower teachers to localize and adapt the material (remix) I can even share my software infrastructure with a few teachers These materials can be reused and most importantly remixed

15 This class and book uses Python 2.x (i.e. not 3.x)

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23 Two Classes Python For InformaticsStarts January 14, 2013 and ends 10 weeks later Enrollment will close January 28, 2013 Python Playground Will be clone of the main course as materials are completed Self-paced - enroll any time

24 Get Started: Please Install Python

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27 Welcome to the class... online.dr-chuck.com