Dear education-inclined Cryolisters,
Please consider submitting an abstract to our session for AGU 2020: Teaching Research with Programming (ED029).
Please consider submitting an abstract to our session for AGU 2020: Teaching Research with Programming (ED029).
In addition to a contributed or invited science abstract, First Authors may submit one additional contributed abstract to a GeoHealth (GH) session, Education (ED) session, Science and Society (SY) session, or, for 2020, a COVID-19 session.
Session Description: As the geosciences move towards increasingly computational problems, (under)graduate students need to learn programming skills to be prepared for research. Teaching these skills – computational research methods, software "carpentry", data and code management, documentation, attribution – presents new challenges.
How do you teach students to do research using programming? How do you manage assessment? Has student feedback shaped your approach? Do you use GitHub or other platforms for sharing and version control of code? Do you use web-based platforms (MATLAB Online/LiveScript, Jupyter Notebooks, Docker) to reach an online student community? Are you using hardware (Arduino, smart phones, sensors) with your software?
This session is an opportunity to share methods, philosophies and best practices across the platforms and disciplines in which we work. It is inclusive of all programming languages and environments (MATLAB, Octave, Python, R, Julia, etc), and all approaches addressing the intersection of teaching, research, and programming are welcomed.
Session Description: As the geosciences move towards increasingly computational problems, (under)graduate students need to learn programming skills to be prepared for research. Teaching these skills – computational research methods, software "carpentry", data and code management, documentation, attribution – presents new challenges.
How do you teach students to do research using programming? How do you manage assessment? Has student feedback shaped your approach? Do you use GitHub or other platforms for sharing and version control of code? Do you use web-based platforms (MATLAB Online/LiveScript, Jupyter Notebooks, Docker) to reach an online student community? Are you using hardware (Arduino, smart phones, sensors) with your software?
This session is an opportunity to share methods, philosophies and best practices across the platforms and disciplines in which we work. It is inclusive of all programming languages and environments (MATLAB, Octave, Python, R, Julia, etc), and all approaches addressing the intersection of teaching, research, and programming are welcomed.
Session ID: ED029
Session Title: Teaching Research with Programming
Section: Education
Session Details: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/102318
The deadline for abstract submissions is Wednesday, 29 July 23:59 EDT.
Please note that the AGU Fall Meeting (7 – 11 December) will be mostly virtual this year.
Sincerely,
Alice Bradley (Williams College)
Andrew Fischer (University of Tasmania)
Frederik Simons (Princeton University)
Anthony Castronova (Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc.)
Alice Bradley
Assistant Professor
Geoscience Department
Williams College
