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Slides for talk at SIAM's CSE 2015
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Slides for talk at SIAM's CSE 2015

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# Teaching computational thinking and practice

A minisymposium proposal for the [SIAM Conference on Computational Science &

Engineering](http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse15) in Salt Lake City, UT in

2015.

## Summary

As dependence on computational tools increases, so does the need for better

computational training.

We discuss our own efforts to provide such training.

We address several larger questions including:

What is the role of computational training in our various fields?

How can we scale training to meet demand?

What technologies, languages, principles, and practices should we teach?

What is the right balance between conceptual learning and hands-on training and practice?

More generally, how should we train the next generation of

scientists, statisticians, and engineers in computational methods and

practices?

## Teaching statistical computing to undergraduates

    K. Jarrod Millman (co-organizer)

    Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley

    Philip B. Stark (co-organizer)

    Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley

We frame the minisymposium in the context of our

experience teaching computing with data to undergraduates.

We discuss our recent efforts to automate grading student computational

work in Python and R.

Automating grading can improve pedagogy by

making it easier to assign students more work,

reducing latency in providing feedback,

and enabling TAs to spend more time working directly with students

by freeing them from the "busy work" of grading.

## License

All materials in this repository are Copyright K. Jarrod Millman and licensed

CC-BY 4.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.