Teaching students to code - Jan Niederau

[mtb-za]

This looks solid.

Comparing the title to the content, it is not entirely clear to me that the thrust is to teach students to code, rather than just the use of notebooks as a teaching tool for the subject being taught. What is described in many cases (using widgets and such for interactivity) would not need to be coded by students themselves. I acknowledge that it would be somewhat strange to use notebooks without coding them, and there are references to writing some, but the title felt off somehow.

Highlighting the use of automatic marking and similar things is valuable though, and certainly the use of notebooks as a teaching tool is a really good use case for them, especially with interactive widgets.

[mycarta]

@ mtb-za :

two people looked at this chapter and there was a previous issue (#81), which I failed to reference. I am leaving this open just enough for @Japhiolite to take a look at your comment and let us know if he's happy with the title.

[Japhiolite]

That's a valuable comment, and good suggestion for better directions regarding the title! Over time, content of text changed, but I never adjusted the title. I'm open for suggestions, based on your comment, Martin... how about something like: Jupyter notebooks - a digital teaching tool, tailored to your needs or in that direction?

[mycarta]

cc @mtb-za

[mtb-za]

I'm open for suggestions, based on your comment, Martin... how about something like: Jupyter notebooks - a digital teaching tool, tailored to your needs or in that direction?

Something like that seems good. Jupyter notebooks - customisable teaching tools? Never been that good at titles, sorry!

[Japhiolite]

Came up with Tailor your teaching with Jupyter notebooks what do you think?

[mtb-za]

That seems to match the content better to me, and is nicely succinct.