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Introduction week
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First meeting
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After this meeting students should:

- Know me a bit
- Understand how and why programming can be used to study mathematics.
- Know where all class resources are
- As a class agree on a schedule for office hours
- Know what they need to do to prepare for their first class

Introduce myself
****************

Use this slide deck: :download:`main </_static/speak/intro-to-class/main.key>`

- Pick 4 or 5 pictures of my family and I to introduce myself.
- Mathematician (where/what I studied)
- Trustee of the UK Python association https://uk.python.org
- Conference and workshop organiser
- Editor for JOSS
- Fellow of the sustainable software institute
- Maintainer of a number of open source scientific research packages

Programming
***********

1. Class exercise: get a class word cloud association for the word "programming". (Using mentimeter.com).
2. Class exercise: how to make a cup of tea in 3 steps (using menti)
3. Class exercises: get a class word cloud association "What are uses for programming
   in Mathematics?"

   - Proving theorems;
   - Obtaining conjectures;
   - Implementing tools.

Location of class resources
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- Show site: https://vknight.org/cfm/
- Show recordings
- Show learning central recordings
- Discuss discord

Office hours
************

As a class identify office hours.

Potential times are:

Tuesday: 1000-1200
Friday: 1100-1300
or
Friday: 1300-1500


How the class works
*******************

Direct students at my teaching philosophy page: <https://vknight.org/tch-phi/>

Discuss the philosophy of the main text, specifically discussing this
<https://vknight.org/pfm/overview/introduction/main.html#fig-knowledge-vs-technique>

Discuss structure of the book.

- Timetable:

  - Discuss the actual timetable.

  Discuss this diagram: :download:`Week structure </_static/week_structure/main.pdf>`

  Discuss this diagram: :download:`Understanding </_static/understanding/main.pdf>`

- Assessment.

- For first lab session: work through chapter 1. Give a brief demo.

After class email
-----------------

Send the following email after class::

    Hi all,

    A recording of today's class is available at <>.

    In this class we discussed multiple things about the class itself:

    - Course documents available here: https://vknight.org/cfm/
    - We agreed that office hours will be: <>
    - You can find my teaching philosophy here: https://vknight.org/tch-phi/

    The goal of this week is to make sure you are able to install the software
    necessary. Follow the instruction in this chapter of the course text: 
    https://vknight.org/pfm/tools-for-mathematics/01-using-notebooks/introduction/main.html

    If you are unable to follow through the tutorial and/or the exercises please
    come by the optional drop in session on Wednesday.

    Please get in touch if I can assist with anything,
    Vince


Second meeting
--------------

- Give brief review of the contents of the chapter. Do this by working through
  the tutorial and the how to section of the relevant chapter of the class.
- Ask if anyone has any questions/comments/feedback.
- Remind everyone about the resources available to them (videos both on youtube
  and LC, chapters, plan, discord etc...).
- Explain that the following things seemed to be the main ones to come up:
    1. Finding files on computer.
    2. Difference between markdown and code cell.
    3. Using brackets when doing computations.
- Work through the exercises and solutions.

For each of those do a small walk-through showing the concepts again.