This was the first semester I worked as a teaching intern at the Digital Center, and I was in charge of running the R workshops. As a great semester reaches its end, I would like to summarize this journey and reflect on it. A Quick Summary I conducted 5 workshops besides the starter kit. 4 […]
Category: workshop notes
End-of-Semester Reflection (Python Open Labs – Spring 2018)
It’s hard to believe that the end of the semester has arrived and that Python Open Lab sessions for Spring 2018 have come to an end. Instead of writing a sappy post about “the end,” I’d like to share five things I learned while teaching my students Python this semester. # 1 – Teach with […]
Mid-Semester Reflection (Python Open Labs – Spring 2018)
Stuart Walesh, an author and consultant, once said: “The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a challenge and opportunity beyond imagination.” Many of us use computers. Sometimes, the time we spend on them consume the majority of our day. Whether or […]
Building a website with WordPress and its plugins
As you may know, we are now constructing a website to vote for the hottest 3D models in Columbia University. As a newcomer in the field, I found the task nothing easy. Therefore, I feel obliged to introduce WordPress, or more specifically, its plugins, to you, for all the time they have saved me. WordPress […]
Introducing HTML: Top-down or bottom-up?
I have recently switched the way that I approach intros to mark-up languages, HTML and XML in particular. In the past I have usually started by writing sample code, moving from simple to more complex structures. I have seen other approaches focusing on editing environments and others focusing on schemas. More recently I have begun […]