webartifex

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by webartifex 7y ago
Can anyone recommend a good document camera / visualizer that works on Ubuntu Linux? The reason I had to use the lecture capture system in the lecture rooms is mainly because I don't own a document cam. Ideally, the cam would also
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by webartifex 7y ago
Two videos have the hum. This cannot be changed because the lecture capture system in the lecture room does not allow this (It's Panopto). The quality is actually high enough. Maybe that is due as YouTube is currently lowering the qual
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by webartifex 7y ago
I agree. Although at some point, any beginner must be exposed to the command line :) My observation about myself when studying is this: Nothing, no video course, beats a well written book. And, such books are often "slow" reads as
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by webartifex 7y ago
Does Pythonista for iPad support Jupyter notebooks?
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by webartifex 7y ago
The Python community is basically one big OER course. Just look at all the recordings from the many PyCons. I have a second half for the "book" planned but "unfortunately" also need to do some research for my PhD. Maybe
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by webartifex 7y ago
I tried to put in everything I myself would have wanted to know when starting in 2014. That is why I spend so much time on the memory diagrams in the videos in particular. It literally took me years to figure that out. I have watched a lot
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by webartifex 7y ago
Good tips. I will look at this. I am planning to use Google Collab for a totally remote class next weekend to set up group work.
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by webartifex 7y ago
I agree that this is important. My personal choice is to use pyenv together with poetry on a Linux machine. Yet, please understand that I teach this course to absolute (!) beginners. That is why I chose to use the Anaconda Distribution in c
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by webartifex 7y ago
They should be ready tomorrow evening. Within the next two weeks, a missing chapter 9 on arrays will also be there. I spent around 50 hours doing the videos in the last couple of days while also holding remote office hours for the 80 studen
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by webartifex 7y ago
Hi there, I am a PhD student in Operations Research and developed an Introduction to Python & Programming course for the Bachelor program at a business school. Due to Corona, I got a chance to video tape it thoroughly (should have done
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by webartifex 7y ago
thanks, I will do
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by webartifex 9y ago
Gmail's labeling system is hard to beat. In particular, any given email can be in several "folders" (a.k.a. labels) at the same time. All other services I have tried out so far do not replicate this approach so that an email