Target Student Computing Class 2016

Thursday 7 Jul 2016, 13:00 → 16:10 US/Central

Ruth Pordes (Fermilab)

Computing/programming class on Thursdays from 1-4pm for 6 weeks.

Room for this week: 7/7 – Racetrack, WH7XS

Lesson Plan:

Hour 1: Introductions, setting the scope,
Hour 2: Introducing a few programming concepts and Python
Hour 3: Introducing I2U2, OpenCosmics; Do 1st small coding example on the laptops.

Teaching Assistants:

Amanda Gao
Nate Knauf
Thomas Hein

I2U2 Wiki where we will keep the outcomes http://wiki.i2u2.org/I2U2/view

Introductions, Setting the Scope

1 Introducing teacher and the 6 week class

Speaker: Ruth Pordes (Fermilab)

2 Amanda Gao's story

Slides GaoStory.pptx

3 Student Round Table

Introducing a few programming concepts and Python

4 A few computing concepts to remember

Slides Presentation1.pdf

5 Python training

https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/

pictures SpyderScreen.png

6 Physics of Quarknet

7 Visit WH15th floor Quarknet Stand

Introducing I2U2, OpenCosmics; Do 1st small coding example on the laptops.

8 Break

9 Introducing I2U2 site, login and test

10 Introduction to Open Cosmics

11 Coding first Python example

document

• 6148.2016.0518.0
• Data_reading_example.ipynb
• demo.py
• fileProcess2.py
• universities.txt

Slides HelloWorldExample.py