search

pycourse / inumpy

BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
1 stars 2 forks source link

IPython part #3

Open tjwei opened 8 years ago

tjwei commented 8 years ago

I am working on a train with unreliable network signal, so I just note several related issues here.

What is the goal of our IPython session? One way is that we just teach very basic material so that they can use at least use ipython notebook as a basic shell(things like pylab, timeit magic are included). Another way is we really introduce some fancy things like slide mode, interactive widget, write your own magic, rich display(HTML, SVG, _reprhtml, YouTube) etc. Since we also teach numpy, we probably should do the former.

yungyuc commented 8 years ago

Agree that we should focus on the former for now. A one-day workshop has only 5-6 hours. Our goal isn't to exhaust the students but to make them learn things. They should get familiarized with most of the topics covered in the workshop.

As you mentioned, the must have includes:

yungyuc commented 8 years ago

@jjhuang314 Comment? BTW are you notified with this issue by GitHub? I got notification but I thought because I am the creator of the repo. I am not sure if you are notified or not.

jjhuang314 commented 8 years ago

It seems that this course is focusing on NumPy, with an introduction to iPython. I also agree on this way.