Teaching description ITU 2017-04-19

ITU, room 3A52, 16.00 – 20.00
Date: 19/4-2017
Subject: Programming – plotting in python
Target group: Primarily students with basic or no coding experience
Theme: Graph your data – and be social about it.

Purpose

• Let participants meet and discuss programming
• Strengthen social bonding and networking
• Introduce to online portal for easy programming
• Brief introduction to python
• Simple exercises to execute a python program
• Use simple tools to make a graph
• Use plotting facility to make a graph of a dataset
• Strengthen interest in programming

Content

The plan covers 3.5 hours. A main task is to strengthen the social bonds and network. Therefore, a considerable amount of time should be devoted to social exercises. The teaching will be a mix of short presentations to a subject or exercise, followed by a social interaction, thereafter an exercise with a followup. The un-measurable outcome of social bonding and network will be examined in a final questionnaire evaluation. The measurable outcome is expected to be:

• The participants should have met with at least 6 other participants in a discussion forum
• The participant will have participated in an in-class “online poll”.
• In a group have discussed a programming challenge, and presented the idea.
• Made an account at https://cloud.sagemath.com for an online portal for easy programming
• Tried to have made hello_world.py program, and execute it through the terminal
• Made a python Jupyter notebook
• Discussed and in groups have solved how to plot a distribution of a range of numbers
• Been introduced to http://kaggle.com , which contains training datasets
• Loaded a dataset from NASA, and made a plot of the data

Materials

• Mentors.
• Participants bring personal computer
• Access to internet -> Please confirm working access
• Extra power cables in room
• Drinks/snacks for participants
• Access to projector (MacBook Air) -> Which adapter is needed?
• Google slideshow with presentation and exercises http://tinyurl.com/codher1704
• account creation at sagemath
• Download a dataset from https://github.com/Codher/graphing-data

Methods

Establishment of social interaction in groups to facilitate networking. Simple presentation to a subject. Simple exercise. Aid participants with IT-vocabulary.

Evaluation

The un-measurable outcome of social bonding and network will be examined in a final questionnaire evaluation.

Sequence	Material	Working method	Method	Purpose
16.00 – 16.20 20 min Registration and welcome	Plamena	-	-	-
16.20 – 16.25 5 min Introduction and program	Slideshow	-	-	Welcome participants. Give access to slideshow. Present program.
16.25 – 16.40 15 min Mix+poll	b.socrative.com	Mix-subject-talk. Voting poll	Group work	Create initial network. Who are the participants? Internal discussion, anonymous poll.
16.40 – 16.50 10 min Introduction to python	Slideshow	-	-	Set the stage for Python. Examples from teachers use of python.
16.50 – 17.00 10 min Make account	All make an account at cloud.sagemath.com	-	-	Prepare for exercises
17.00 – 17.05 5 min Tea break	-	-	-	-

Sequence	Material	Working method	Method	Purpose
17.05 – 17.15 10 min Inside python	Cloud.sagemath.com	Exercise	Individual	Learn to start python
17.15 – 17.25 10 min Execute python program	Cloud.sagemath.com	Exercise	Individual	Execute a python program from file
17.25 – 17.35 10 min Use notebook	Cloud.sagemath.com	Exercise	Individual	Create a notebook, and try it
17.35 – 17.45 10 min Data discussion	Discuss at table 2 persons. Then mix to another table.	Talk and discuss	Group work	Let participants discuss 2 together, about some data they would like to make a graph about. Or their last graph they made.
17.45 – 17.55 10 min Project collaboration	Cloud.sagemath.com	Introduction to social programming	-	Prepare to let participants work together 2 persons in a project
17.55 – 18.05 10 min Tea break	-	-	-	-

Sequence	Material	Working method	Method	Purpose
18.05 – 18.15 10 min Discuss problem solving	List of 25 numbers of grades in chemistry.	Discuss in group	Collaboration	What is the programming challenge in making a graph of distribution of numbers?
18.15 – 18.25 10 min Show possible solutions	Slideshow	Instruction	-	Show the participants there are numerous ways to solve the same problem.
18.25 – 18.35 10 min Try implementation	Slideshow	Group work	-	Let the participants try their own implementation
18.35 – 18.45 10 min Online poll	b.socrative.com	-	-	Fix any questions until now
18.45 – 19.00 15 min Help and errors in python	Slideshow	Instruction	-	Show how errors in python is presented. Show the help() function
19.00 – 19.05 5 min Tea break	-	-	-	-

Sequence	Material	Working method	Method	Purpose
19.05 – 19.15 10 min Intro to kaggle.com	Slideshow	-	-	Introduce the kaggle.com platform, as a social place to try handling real-life datasets
19.15 – 19.20 5 min Users upload data	Slideshow	-	-	-
19.20 – 19.30 10 min How to inspect data in python	Slideshow	-	-	Show functions to load dataset, inspect columns, and plot it
19.30 – 19.50 20 min Users plot	-	-	-	Let the user plot the data
19.50 – 20.00 10 min Socialize	Mix	-	-	“Try to convince” the participants to take a screenshot of their graph, and post it on facebook, Instagram or whatever.

Final do an evaluation in b.socrative.com

Extra material

• Convert a list of data to pandas, and make a graph of it?
• Load an excel sheet to pandas, and make a graph of it?