Class meetings

• Week 01: Introduction
  • Pre: Discussing programming + teaching approach
  • Lab: Installation of software assistance
  • Post: Installation issues and jupyter demo
• Week 02: Variables, Conditional Statements and Loops
  • Pre: Demo of Bisection Method
  • Lab: Variables, Conditional Statements and Loops Lab Sheet
  • Post: Reactive discussion + peer exercise
• Week 03: Data Structures and Functions
  • Pre: Demo of creating a random number generator
  • Lab: Data Structures and Functions
  • Post: Reactive discussion + peer exercise
• Week 04: Lab Sheet 03: Reading and writing to file and recursion
  • Pre: Demo of Collatz conjecture
  • Lab: Reading and writing to file, recursion and algorithms
  • Post: Reactive discussion + peer exercise
• Week 05: Lab Sheet 04: Object Oriented Programming
  • Pre: Demo of group theory exercise
  • Lab: Object Oriented Programming
  • Post: Reactive discussion + peer exercise
• Week 06: Symbolic mathematics
  • Pre: Demo of Sympy
  • Lab: Symbolic Mathematics
  • Post: Reactive discussion + peer exercise
• Week 07: Library Toolkit
  • Pre: Demo of libraries
  • Lab: Overview of Python libraries
  • Post: Library research skill session?
• Week 08: Produce code
  • Pre: Review of all programming concepts
  • Lab: Feedback on their own code
  • Post: Reactive discussion + peer exercise
• Week 09: LaTeX refresher
  • Pre: LaTeX Refresher + Writing Mathematics
  • Lab: Start writing
  • Post: Reactive discussion + peer exercise
• Week 10: Finishing
  • Pre: Critically discuss some of the writing of the previous pieces
  • Lab: Finishing/identification of difficulties
  • Post: Peer review of first draft
• Week 11: Slack