Posts Tagged ‘programming’
Rap hip-hop and physics
A Hip-Hop Experiment
JOHN LELAND NOV. 16, 2012 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/nyregion/columbia-professor-and-gza-aim-to-help-teach-science-through-hip-hop.html
Only 4 percent of African-American seniors nationally were proficient in sciences, compared with 27 percent of whites, according to the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress.
GZA by bringing science into hip-hop; Dr. Emdin by bringing hip-hop into the science classroom.
the popular hip-hop lyrics Web siteRap Genius, will announce a pilot project to use hip-hop to teach science in 10 New York City public schools. The pilot is small, but its architects’ goals are not modest. Dr. Emdin, who has written a book called “Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation,”
hip-hop “cypher,” participants stand in a circle and take turns rapping, often supporting or playing off one another’s rhymes.
“All of those things that are happening in the hip-hop cypher are what should happen in an ideal classroom.”
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Students analyze rap lyrics with code in digital humanities class
Some teachers are finding a place for coding in English, music, science, math and social studies, too
by TARA GARCÍA MATHEWSON October 18, 2018
Fifteen states now require all high schools to offer computer science courses. Twenty-three states have created K-12 computer science standards. And 40 states plus the District of Columbia allow students to count computer science courses toward high school math or science graduation requirements. That’s up from 12 states in 2013, when Code.org launched, aiming to expand access to computer science in U.S. schools and increase participation among girls and underrepresented minorities in particular.
Nevada is the only state so far to embed math, science, English language arts and social studies into its computer science standards.
Software Carpentry Workshop
Minnesota State University Moorhead – Software Carpentry Workshop
Reservation code: 680510823 Reservation for: Plamen Miltenoff
Hagen Hall – 600 11th St S – Room 207 – Moorhead
pad.software-carpentry.org/2017-10-27-Moorhead
http://www.datacarpentry.org/lessons/
https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/
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Friday
Jeff – certified Bash Python, John
https://ntmoore.github.io/2017-10-27-Moorhead/
what is shall and what does it do. language close to computers, fast.
what is “bash” . cd, ls
shell job is a translator between the binory code, the middle name. several types of shells, with slight differences. one natively installed on MAC and Unix. born-again shell
bash commands: cd change director, ls – list; ls -F if it does not work: man ls (manual for LS); colon lower left corner tells you can scrool; q for escape; ls -ltr
arguments is colloquially used with different names. options, flags, parameters
cd .. – move up one directory . pwd : see the content cd data_shell/ – go down one directory
cd ~ – brings me al the way up . $HOME (universally defined variable
the default behavior of cd is to bring to home directory.
the core shall commands accept the same shell commands (letters)
$ du -h . gives me the size of the files. ctrl C to stop
$ clear . – clear the entire screen, scroll up to go back to previous command
man history $ history $! pwd (to go to pwd . $ history | grep history (piping)
$ cat (and the file name) – standard output
$ cat ../
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how to edit and delete files
to create new folder: $ mkdir . – make directory
text editors – nano, vim (UNIX text editors) . $ nano draft.txt . ctrl O (save) ctr X (exit) .
$ vim . shift esc (key) and in command line – wq (write quit) or just “q”
$ mv draft.txt ../data . (move files)
to remove $ rm thesis/: $ man rm
copy files $cp $ touch . (touches the file, creates if new)
remove $ rm . anything PSEUDO is dangerous Bash profile: cp -i
*- wild card, truncate $ ls analyzed (list of the analyized directory)
stackoverflow web site .
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head command . $head basilisk.day (check only the first several lines of a large file
$ for filename in basilisk.dat unicorn.dat . (making a loop = multiline)
> do (expecting an action) do
> head -n 3 $filename . (3 is for the first three line of the file to be displayed and -n is for the number)
> done
for doing repetitive functions
also
$ for filename in *.dat ; do head -n 3$x; done
$ for filename in *.dat ; do echo $filename do head -n 3$x; done
$ echo $filename (print statement)
how to loop
$ for filename in *.dat ; do echo $filename ; echo head -n 3 $filename ; done
ctrl c or apple comd dot to get out of the loop
http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/02-filedir/
also
$ for filename in *.dat
> do
> $filename
> head -n 10 (first ten files ) $filename | tail -n 20 (last twenty lines)
$ for filename in *.dat
do
>> echo $filename
>> done
$ for filename in *.dat
>> do
>> cp $filename orig_$filename
>>done\
history > something else
$ head something.else
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another function: word count
$ wc *.pdb (protein databank)
$ head cubane.pdb
if i don;t know how to read the outpun $ man wc
the difference between “*” and “?”
$ wc -l *.pdb
$
wc -l *.pdb > lenghts.txs
$ cat lenghts.txt
$ for fil in *.txt
>>> do
>>> wc -l $fil
by putting a $ sign use that not the actual text.
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$ nano middle.sh . The entire point of shell is to automate
$ bash (exectubale) to run the program middle.sh
rwx – rwx – rwx . (owner – group -anybody)
bash middle.sh
$ file middle.sh
$path .
$ echo $PATH | tr “:” “\n”
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Public
/usr/local/munki
$ export PATH=$PWD:$PATH
(this is to make sure that the last version of Python is running)
$ ls ~ . (hidden files)
$ ls -a ~
$ touch .bach_profile .bashrc
$history | grep PATH
19 echo $PATH
44 echo #PATH | tr “:” “\n”
45 echo $PATH | tr “:” “\n”
46 export PATH=$PWD:$PATH
47 echo #PATH | tr “:” “\n”
48 echo #PATH | tr “:” “\n”
55 history | grep PATH
wc -l “$@” | sort -n ($@ – encompasses eerything. will process every single file in the list of files
$ chmod (make it executable)
$ find . -type d . (find only directories, recursively, )
$ find . -type f (files, instead of directories)
$ find . -name ‘*.txt’ . (find files by name, don’t forget single quotes)
$ wc -l $(find . -name ‘*.txt’) – when searching among direcories on different level
$ find . -name ‘*.txt’ | xargs wc -l – same as above ; two ways to do one and the same
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Saturday
Python
C and C++. scripting purposes in microbiology (instructor). libraries, packages alongside Python, which can extend its functionality. numpy and scipy (numeric and science python). Python for academic libraries?
going out of python $ quit () . python expect beginning and end parenthesis
new terminal needed after installation. anaconda 5.0.1
python 3 is complete redesign, not only an update.
http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder/setup/
jupyter crashes in safari. open in chrome. spg engine maybe
https://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder/01-run-quit/
to start python in the terminal $ python
>> variable = 3
>> variable +10
several data types.
stored in JSON format.
command vs edit code. code cell is the gray box. a text cell is plain text
markdown syntax. format working with git and github . search explanation in https://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder/01-run-quit/
hackMD https://hackmd.io/ (use your GIthub account)
PANDOC – translates different data formats. https://pandoc.org/
print is a function
in what cases i will run my data trough Python instead of SPSS?
python is a 0 based language. starts counting with 0 – Java, C, P
atom_name = ‘helium ‘
print(atom_name[0]) string slicing and indexing is tricky
print(atom_name[0:6])
print(atom_name[7]) python does not know how to slice it
print(atom_name[::-1])
muillyreb muihtil muileh
len (atom_name) 6 . case sensitive
method applied it is an attribute to data that already exists. – difference from function
/Users/plamen_local/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/__init__.py
import pandas
data = pandas.read_csv(‘/Users/plamen_local/Desktop/data/gapminder_gdp_oceania.csv’ , index_col=’country’)
data.loc[‘Australia’].plot()
plt.xticks(rotation=10)
GD plot 2 is the most well known library.
xelatex is a PDF engine. reST restructured text like Markdown. google what is the best PDF engine with Jupyter
four loops . any computer language will have the concept of “for” loop. In Python: 1. whenever we create a “for” loop, that line must end with a single colon
2. indentation. any “if” statement in the “for” loop, gets indented
coding
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more about coding in this IMS blog
NMC Horizon Report 2017 K12
NMC/CoSN Horizon Report 2017 K–12 Edition
p. 20 Coding as a Literacy
p. 24
What Web Literacy Skills are Missing from Learning Standards? Are current learning standards addressing the essential web literacy skills everyone should know?https://medium.com/read-write-participate/what-essential-web-skills-are-missing-from-current-learning-standards-66e1b6e99c72
The American Library Association (ALA) defines digital literacy as “the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate or share information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.” While the ALA’s definition does align to some of the skills in “Participate”, it does not specifically mention the skills related to the “Open Practice.”
The library community’s digital and information literacy standards do not specifically include the coding, revision and remixing of digital content as skills required for creating digital information. Most digital content created for the web is “dynamic,” rather than fixed, and coding and remixing skills are needed to create new content and refresh or repurpose existing content. Leaving out these critical skills ignores the fact that library professionals need to be able to build and contribute online content to the ever-changing Internet.
p. 30 Rethinking the Roles of Teachers
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more on NMC Horizon Reports in this IMS blog
coding is blue collar
The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
Clive Thompson Business Date of Publication: 02.08.17.
In Kentucky, mining veteran Rusty Justice decided that code could replace coal. He cofounded Bit Source, a code shop that builds its workforce by retraining coal miners as programmers. Enthusiasm is sky high: Justice got 950 applications for his first 11 positions. Miners, it turns out, are accustomed to deep focus, team play, and working with complex engineering tech. “Coal miners are really technology workers who get dirty,” Justice says.
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more on coding in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=coding
Twilio for Python
Programmable SMS
https://www.facebook.com/TeamTwilio/videos/10153783710422759/
IFTTT and social media
IFTTT Recipes for Social Media Marketers
this is a step-by-step handout how to utilize IFTTT
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More on IFTTT in this IMS blog:
learn computer science
https://www.google.com/edu/cs/index.html
April 22, 2016 Google has recently launched a new interesting website called Computer Science Education to help students learn coding and computer science.
More on coding in this IMS blog:
coding or foreign language
Our opinion: both!
Don’t Swap Coding Classes for Foreign Language
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dont-swap-coding-classes-foreign-language-igor-perisic
The whole problem is rooted in the abuse of the key term, language. In foreign languages the term language refers to “the system of words or signs that people use to express thoughts and feelings to each other” (Merriam-Webster) while in programming languages the term language means “a formal system of signs and symbols including rules for the formation and transformation of admissible expressions“ (Merriam-Webster). To equate foreign languages with programming languages reduces learning a foreign language to the mere acquisition of a set of tokens or words that are semantically and syntactically glued together. It fundamentally ignores the societal, cultural and historical aspects of human languages.