[FRIAM] Transforming the Postsecondary Professional Education Experience -- Campus Technology

[Grant Holland]

That was one of the first Java books I read, too, Frank. It was before 
Sun published any Java programming books, and before I went to work for Sun.

BTW, I believe your b'day is today, Frank. If so, have a great one!

Grant


On 5/5/18 12:52 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
>
> I assume a good Python book costs less than the course.  In 1996 I got 
> a job re-implementing a large statistical causal reasoning library 
> from Pascal to Java.  I bought a book called “Teach yourself Java in 
> 21 days”.  Within less than that time I had several large programs 
> converted.  I barely looked at the Pascal but at pseudocode 
> descriptions of the algorithms instead.
>
> Frank
>
> *From:*Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Marcus 
> Daniels
> *Sent:* Friday, May 04, 2018 2:02 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Transforming the Postsecondary Professional 
> Education Experience -- Campus Technology
>
> “As a measure of the magnitude of impact of MOOCs so far, one of our 
> MOOC specializations in the Python programming language is among the 
> most popular offerings on Coursera — I believe that it has reached 
> more than a million learners at this point. A significant fraction of 
> those learners have opted to sit for an exam to get a certificate in 
> Python programming.”
>
> <Huff>  A person that seeks a Coursera class to learn Python is not 
> destined for a career in software development.
>
> “Also, we introduced an Applied Data Science specialization about a 
> year ago. That one, though not receiving enrollments at quite the same 
> level as the Python specialization, is generating tens of thousands of 
> learners per quarter.”
>
> Thousands of learners or thousands of people who create a filtering 
> problem for recruiting departments?
>
> Marcus
>
> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Tom Johnson 
> <tom at jtjohnson.com>
> *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group 
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> *Date: *Friday, May 4, 2018 at 1:47 PM
> *To: *"Friam at redfish. com" <friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject: *[FRIAM] Transforming the Postsecondary Professional 
> Education Experience -- Campus Technology
>
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> Perhaps of interest....
>
> Transforming the Postsecondary Professional Education Experience
> A Q&A with Thomas A. Finholt
> https://campustechnology.com/Articles/2018/04/16/Transforming-the-Postsecondary-Professional-Education-Experience.aspx?s=ct_in_040518&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRFeE1EVTVPRFJtTWpSaSIsInQiOiJCOGhlK2U2d3l5R3BodGpScFQrUk5MNlNGWnh5Y3EreWtYVnhtWm1MY01DcXkwTWN2OTBxa25oVFdMa3Y0RDd2NklUNGtFMTFWU2ZnM3g0SCtQUE05VWlaaWM1MXRzSld0UWg5WmZVM1prV2hKSWZ3N3RvTTBoTWlVMFJQYlJiZiJ9&Page=1 
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