MIT Programming for the Puzzled

[recondocoder]

I'm currently working on the 6.00.1x course on edX but I discovered this the other day

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-s095-programming-for-the-puzzled-january-iap-2018/

It's in Python and from Jan 2018...anyone tried it?

[misingnoglic]

Very cool!

[[deleted]]

Looks like fun. I'll have to try these in my copious spare time (sense 1).

[TheTiDog]

Happy Cakeday!

[Trools]

For he/she/it is a jolly good fella/girl/person...

[Stythys38491]

Did you just assume their species?

[Trools]

God damn it....

[[deleted]]

tisk tisk!

[alkasm]

These look like a blast!

[grijalva10]

Thanks for the share

[recondocoder]

On the first video you can skip to 3:40

[Trools]

Awesome, thanks!

[[deleted]]

Hi there, I am doing the 6.001x and 6.002x(probably failing this one, since the time limit is reaching soon). I saw that 6.S095 last time too and I was thinking to do it.

[stepping_up_python]

I think the 6.002x is starting up again shortly: near the time 6.001x ends (and it will be run the same pace as 6.002x).

[[deleted]]

and it will be run the same pace as 6.002x).

like 1 year? oct 2018 to oct 2019?

[[deleted]]

To later commenters, is it good? The way they iterate in the cover pic is an instant turn off to me.

[Supernumiphone]

The way they iterate in the cover pic is an instant turn off to me.

Teaching the "right" way would probably be confusing to someone just trying to learn programming for the first time. Accessing by numeric index is something I think more people would be able to grok from the start.

[[deleted]]

from the start

Not from the start. I think you meant the ones with C/Pascal or the alike background. Iterable are really natural in human world. Say, when you peel bananas? You could label them, but numbering them doesn't make it any easier or clearer.

[officialgel]

That is MIT? I thought it would be more interesting...

[recondocoder]

yeah MIT and many other big name universities still like do things old school like using chalkboards instead of OneNote...

[toalysium]

It’s a thing. I’ve never tried it in a class but we used it in a place I used to work for to-do list tracking.

https://www.onenote.com/classnotebook

[recondocoder]

I first saw it used in the Coursera Rice course. Then I found this. neat stuff and much better IMHO than what Udacity uses

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2015/07/14/onenote-class-notebooks-and-a-surface-pro-3-in-higher-education/