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                Published: Sun 29 May 2016
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                By                         <a class="url fn" href="./author/amit-saha.html">Amit Saha</a>
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<p>In <a href="./category/updates.html">updates</a>.</p>

</footer><!-- /.post-info -->      <p>I participated in the education summit today. My talk slides for &quot;Doing Math with Python&quot;  is available <a class="reference external" href="https://doingmathwithpython.github.io/pycon-us-2016/#/">here</a>.</p>
<p>Here are some notes on the other talks I attended.</p>
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<h2>Keynote</h2>
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<li>Education WG</li>
<li>PythonZero</li>
<li>GPIO Zero</li>
<li>Network zero: <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/tjguk/networkzero/">https://github.com/tjguk/networkzero/</a></li>
<li>Zero: based on an established package, emphasis is on up-and-running use in a classroom, Relevant error messages</li>
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<p>Micro:bit</p>
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<li>Mu, demos</li>
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<h2>Lessons learned from teaching Python</h2>
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<li>Put your work out there on the internet</li>
<li>Think about internationalization</li>
<li>Self publish Amazon's create space, Kindle</li>
<li>Quizzes, collect data, data mining</li>
<li>Instructor section</li>
<li>Online markup of code</li>
<li>EpicPen</li>
<li>YouTube channel</li>
<li>Libraries: Pygame, Arcade</li>
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<h2>Pyzero</h2>
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<li>Demos</li>
<li>pzrun</li>
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<div class="section" id="minecraft-with-python">
<h2>Minecraft with Python</h2>
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<li>Use Python to interact with Minecraft</li>
<li>CoderDojo Minecraft bundle</li>
<li>Using Jupyter Notebooks</li>
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<h2>PyCharm Edu</h2>
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<li>Courses</li>
<li>Checkout PyCharm EDU for creating courses</li>
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<h2>Teaching data structures with Python</h2>
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<li>Python makes the teacher happy</li>
<li>Lab only</li>
<li>Algorithms in Python + C (Side by side)</li>
<li>Two languages worked well for them.</li>
<li>Low level language: easy to find the complexity of the algorithm</li>
<li>High level language: hard to find the complexity of the algorithm</li>
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<h2>Merlin for Data Science Education</h2>
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<li>Where to even start?</li>
<li>Effort justification</li>
<li>Spending 2hr out of a 8hr session in fixing something is not worth it</li>
<li>Shouldn't be proud of battling with tool set rather than not doing the real work</li>
<li>Merlin - <a class="reference external" href="http://www.darklabsdatascience.com/project_merlin/">http://www.darklabsdatascience.com/project_merlin/</a></li>
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