calum-chamberlain / ESCI451-Python

Introduction to Python for VUW ESCI 451 course.
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Improvements for 2025 #34

Open erhmestel opened 6 months ago

erhmestel commented 6 months ago

Below are a list of potenital improvements for 2025:

Include plotting of shape files to PyGMT

Add plt.tight_layout() for improving the plot layout automatically

Add clarification that the helper function that gets geonet earthquakes also saves them into earthquakes.csv

Add explanation/encouragement for students to look up issues online (stack overflow; mention Generative AI as well?)

Perhaps point out to them what is stored in the data directory and the helper functions directory

Perhaps teach 2 separate days each week rather than one very full-on day

Perhaps prep an introduction to the terminal if needed (cd, ls, tab to complete, mkdir)