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

Sat May 5 21:04:42 EDT 2018

I think if I listened to anyone my age when deciding how to become a
software whatever I am, that I would not be anywhere near here.  My
expertise in the current world should be taken with a very large grain of
salt.

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On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 7:29 PM, Barry MacKichan <
barry.mackichan at mackichan.com> wrote:

> Frank, May the 4th be with you.
>
> --Barry
>
> On 5 May 2018, at 14:42, Grant Holland wrote:
>
> 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
> <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> <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on
> behalf of Tom Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com> <tom at jtjohnson.com>
> *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> <friam at redfish.com> <friam at redfish.com>
> *Date: *Friday, May 4, 2018 at 1:47 PM
> *To: *"Friam at redfish. com" <Friam at redfish.com> <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-
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