[Visualpython-users] Tutorial intro to VPython

[ruth c. <rc...@an...>]

On the VPython website there is now a tutorial introduction to VPython (a 
pdf file).  It is intended for science and math students who have not 
necessarily ever written a computer program before, but are comfortable 
with algebra.

This is basically the script we use to introduce VPython to our freshman 
physics students, about 40-50% of whom have never written programs before. 
I hook up a computer to a projector, and talk the students through the 
tutorial, asking them to type what I type, then try it.  This year we got 
through the whole thing in 50 minutes (it goes faster if nonprogrammers 
work in pairs).

	Ruth Chabay
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Ruth Chabay, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Center for Innovation in Learning and
Adjunct Professor of Physics
Carnegie Mellon University

email: rc...@an...
phone: 412/268-5714
http://cil.andrew.cmu.edu/ruth.chabay.html