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

2. Download video or watch on YouTube

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.

4. Dr. Chuck...

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 Architect
My 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

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

11. Course Overview

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

13. Open Content The textbook is CC - ShareAlike
My 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)

16. Course Technology

17. online.dr-chuck.com

23. Two Classes Python For Informatics
Starts 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

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