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Improving episode #1

Open maxim-belkin opened this issue 6 years ago • 10 comments

Our first episode 01-numpy.md is overloaded. I suggest discussing possible ways for reorganizing the lesson so that we don't have to talk about slicing numpy arrays and grouping matplotlib's plots in it.

My suggestion:

  1. Variables
  2. Types of data
  3. Inspecting data in variables using the builtin "print" function
  4. Loading data into Python as numpy array (import 1 data file with numpy.loadtxt)
  5. Visualize with Matplotlib

5 minutes on each topic = 25 minutes. Add time for exercises = 30 minutes (at least).

The rest of the current lesson can be moved to a new episode after the 6th episode on functions.

Thoughts? ideas?

maxim-belkin avatar May 28 '18 07:05 maxim-belkin