Timeline for How to teach Mathematica
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:56 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/ with https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Jan 3, 2016 at 22:18 | history | edited | m_goldberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 1 character in body |
| Jan 3, 2016 at 22:13 | comment | added | Sascha | I like that recommendation because it not only concerns a topic familiar to electrical engineers but also showcases how Mathematica can be used for all sorts of tasks that are not obvious programming-task. | |
| Jan 3, 2016 at 22:08 | comment | added | m_goldberg | @Sascha. I made a recommendation. Is the sort of thing your looking for? | |
| Jan 3, 2016 at 22:07 | history | edited | m_goldberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 109 characters in body |
| Jan 3, 2016 at 21:33 | comment | added | Sascha | The Matlab class at my university that I mentioned in the question actually does that and only teaches a little syntax and how to solve common control systems problems using the toolboxes. That and Matlab's (horrible) documentation leaves students helpless when required to solve real world issues and leads to typical scientific (read: hacked together) programming | |
| Jan 3, 2016 at 21:26 | comment | added | Sascha | The type of class I envision is a mixture of lecture/demonstration and hands-on training. Since I attended a class that incorporated flipped classroom elements I am a big fan of the concept but I think teaching a programming language demands some sort of lecture on syntax? The target audience in my case are electrical engineers so the obvious choice would be to analyse some circuits/ODEs which in my opinion would only lead people to view M as kind of glorified calculator and not as the general tool it can be. That is not my idea of a good class. | |
| Jan 3, 2016 at 21:08 | history | answered | m_goldberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |