The goals of this blog

The impetus for this blog came to me (as most things) in the shower. I have been teaching computer science for MEET for about three months, and have seen astonishing improvement from my students in the realm of computer science and programming. I wanted to use some of the exercises I am using with them with the rest of the world - it feels like a waste to not share my efforts with the rest of the world.

The format: Every week on Wednesday, I will post two levels of exercises in a post on this blog - one aimed at beginners and one aimed at slightly-more-than-beginners. I won't disclose the format of the exercises here, mainly because I want to leave flexibility for myself in making these exercises. But the "solution" will be a program in Python that accomplishes a particular task. Each task should take maximum 30 minutes to solve; the intention is that each exercise is a quick practice.

The audience: Anyone who wants practice with Python, but has seen programming and Python before.

The goals:

1. Provide a short weekly practice for Python
2. Encourage independent thinking and learning
3. Provide feedback / solutions / debriefs of exercises at the end of the week-long period by using user-submitted code.