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Show HN: Intro to Python and Programming for non-CS majors (revisited)
2 points by webartifex 6y ago|0 comments
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by webartifex 6y ago
I am currently also using the passff extension ( https://github.com/passff/passff ). So, you are saying I should better not do that?
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by webartifex 6y ago
Hi HN, I am not a security expert and was wondering how I can secure my (Ubuntu) Linux based system from such an attack? Background: I am using the pass password manager to copy & paste passwords all the time. Now, I am afraid that webs
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Ask HN: How to secure the clipboard on Linux(twitter.com)
2 points by webartifex 6y ago|4 comments
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by webartifex 6y ago
why is this thread flagged?
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Ask HN: Monitor Zoom / MS Teams Quality
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by webartifex 6y ago
backend dev here. mainly python/flask. question: if I really wanted to start frontend this year, where would I start? recommendations?
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by webartifex 6y ago
On Gmail, I used their tags as what they appear on Gmail as, namely "virtual folders". Thunderbird's tags are a different concept from folders on IMAP.
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by webartifex 6y ago
Thanks for your comments. I have used Thunderbird and Evolution mainly. They cannot really do that afaik. > Probably some good IMAP-Client supports this? The Gmail clients do that (at least the last version's I remember 3 years ago
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by webartifex 6y ago
For real? Now I understand.
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by webartifex 6y ago
Agree. I am using the German email provider mailbox.org They even report how often the government forces them to release info with a search warrant. However, I have yet to find an email provider that mimics Gmail's tagging system (=&gt
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by webartifex 6y ago
Thanks :) You may share my materials with anyone you know who wants to start Python. Also, I am very open to pull requests with additional exercises and content.
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by webartifex 6y ago
I tried this out this week for a workshop. It seems to not run smoothly on Firefox and some students have company laptops where they cannot change the browser easily. Also, I heavily use Zoom's breakout rooms functionality.
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by webartifex 6y ago
I created lots of exercises. They are all on GitHub (see *_02_exercises.ipynb files on https://github.com/webartifex/intro-to-python ). My "offline" students take between 4 to 8 hours per exercise set.
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by webartifex 6y ago
Hello world, two weeks ago, I recorded and published my "Introduction to Python & Programming" course that I have been teaching to non-CS majors over the last 2 years. Materials on GitHub: https://github.com/we
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Ask HN: How to teach Python to non-programmers online?(youtube.com)
2 points by webartifex 6y ago|8 comments
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by webartifex 7y ago
Cool initiative. I will take a look at some of the sessions. Can you post a schedule when they will take place? I am in particular interested to see how much depth you expose the "non-programmers" to. Is it just an applied course?
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by webartifex 7y ago
I get you. The plotting tools I would actually consider in an "Intro to Data Science" course, not in an "Intro to Programming". I started to write a library implementing Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra book assuming
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by webartifex 7y ago
I introduce the idea of a type right in chapter 1 because of exactly the argument you make. As Python is really more about the behavior of objects and not so much their type, I introduce these already from chapter 4 onward, for example, ite
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by webartifex 7y ago
What would be contents you expect from an intermediate Python course?
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by webartifex 7y ago
Let's hope poetry will become a standard. Opinionated, I know :)
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by webartifex 7y ago
I hope there are no companies that hire a "data scientist" that only speaks HTML :) The course aims at students of business administration. What do they usually do? Maximize some profit function. So, my background is really more t
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by webartifex 7y ago
Pandas and numpy & friends will be in Chapter 9 that I had not yet time to finish (the semester runs until end of April and is currently at Chapter 5). Furthermore, it is a programming (!) course, not (!) a data science course. Please d
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by webartifex 7y ago
Agree. I actually found that I set up a Postgres instance to put the data of an object and use pandas only via sqlalchemy. Most of the stuff pandas does, can be achieved a lot more efficient if done right in a real database. I also agree ab
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by webartifex 7y ago
I'd be the first reader :)
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by webartifex 7y ago
The videos are actually available in 1080p. If you can re-do the audio and tell me how I can do that in YouTube without re-uploading the video (it's embedded, for example, in the university's Moodle), I will gladly do that. If not
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by webartifex 7y ago
Good idea. This will go into the course in the future.
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by webartifex 7y ago
I consider my course a thorough course. You really learn a lot of theory. This is usually what makes students at my university drop the course after two weeks of auditing. Just because the course assumes no prior CS contents (anything reall
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by webartifex 7y ago
It depends on who wants to hire you. For the top jobs, this is for sure not enough. I always tell people to please make sure they know all the contents from here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c&list=PL49CF371
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by webartifex 7y ago
That is correct. But even then, I think in the future the data scientist role and the data engineer role will converge and the person doing this must know virtual environments.

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