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**Programming can be used in almost any class where I student needs to cull, sort, and analyze a large pool of data | **Programming can be used in almost any class where I student needs to cull, sort, and analyze a large pool of data | ||
| − | *Advice for teachers & policy makers | + | *Advice for teachers & policy makers |
**Start small (“Hello World”, Basic Math Operations) | **Start small (“Hello World”, Basic Math Operations) | ||
**Code Academy | **Code Academy | ||
Revision as of 20:39, 2 December 2013
- How was Python used in the research process?
- Data organization
- Took all our data from APT and converted it into tables
- All the data gathered from the sources was converted into manageable charts
- A single table with all the bands of photometry - Cull and Merge
- Band merging
- Useful for implementing multiple applications
- Can do multiple steps/processes in one programs
- Used for making graphs - FWHM
- Used to create regions files
- Student affective responses to learning Python
- It challenged me to be more creative (coming up with ways to organize data) and detail oriented (coding so that the program runs)
- It was easy at first with simple coding for quick results, but then it got a bit more arduous as we had to recall more code and take on larger projects with more steps. That said, it was ultimately achievable and the challenges made for a fun experience.
- I liked the idea of being able to streamline our research process.
- It was great to learn coding by doing as a part of an ongoing project instead of learning through made up examples.
- Applications for high school-level research
- Can create and provide visual examples of experiments
- Python (Visual Python)
- Organizing large pools of data (perhaps from databases)
- Using organized data to create visually appealing graphs and charts
- Sorting data so that it is easily accessible and easy to read
- To help check math work
- Changes to calculations take only seconds to change within a program
- Can make formulas to aid any mathematical needs
- To combine multiple pools of data
- Write a program to do a repetitive task
- Programming can be used in almost any class where I student needs to cull, sort, and analyze a large pool of data
- Can create and provide visual examples of experiments
- Advice for teachers & policy makers
- Start small (“Hello World”, Basic Math Operations)
- Code Academy
- Learn libraries specific to what you are doing (SciPy, NumPy, Visual)
- Integration of programming into all STEM-based classes
- Learn Excel programming if nothing else
