About the course

First meeting

After this meeting students should:

• Know me a bit
• Understand how and why programming can be used to study mathematics.
• Know where all class resources are
• Know what they need to do to prepare for their first class

Introduce myself

• Pick 4 or 5 pictures of my family and I to introduce myself.
• Mathematician (where/what I studied)
• Trustee of the UK Python association https://uk.python.org
• Conference and workshop organiser
• Editor for JOSS
• Fellow of the sustainable software institute
• Maintainer of a number of open source scientific research packages

There are slide for this here.

Programming

1. Class exercise: get a class word cloud association for the word “programming”. (Using mentimeter.com).

2. Class exercises: get a class word cloud association “What are uses for programming in Mathematics?”

   • Proving theorems;
   • Obtaining conjectures;
   • Implementing tools.

Location of class resources

• Show site: https://vknight.org/cfm/
• Show recordings
• Discuss discord

Office hours

Discuss office hours with students

Direct students at my teaching philosophy page: https://vknight.org/tch-phi/

Course materials

Discuss the philosophy of the main text, specifically discussing this https://vknight.org/pfm/overview/introduction/main.html#fig-knowledge-vs-technique

Discuss structure of the book.

• Timetable:

  • Discuss the actual timetable.

  Discuss this diagram: :download:Week structure </_static/week_structure/main.pdf>

  Discuss this diagram: :download:Understanding </_static/understanding/main.pdf>

• Assessment.

• For first lab session: work through chapter 1. Give a brief demo.

After class email

Send the following email after class::

Hi all,

A recording of today's class is available at <>.

In this class we discussed multiple things about the class itself:

- Course documents available here: https://vknight.org/cfm/
- We agreed that office hours will be: <>
- Here is an invite to the discord if you have not already joined it:
- You can find my teaching philosophy here: https://vknight.org/tch-phi/

In preparation for your tutorial tomorrow please work through the first
chapter of the Python for mathematics book:
https://vknight.org/pfm/tools-for-mathematics/01-using-notebooks/introduction/main.html

Please get in touch if I can assist with anything,
Vince

Second meeting

• Give brief review of the contents of the chapter. Do this by browsing through: https://vknight.org/pfm/tools-for-mathematics/01-using-notebooks/how/main.html
• Ask if anyone has any questions/comments/feedback.
• Remind everyone about the resources available to them (videos both on youtube and LC, chapters, plan, discord etc…).
• Explain that the following things seemed to be the main ones to come up:
  1. Finding files on computer.
  2. Difference between markdown and code cell.
  3. Using brackets when doing computations.

For each of those do a small walk-through showing the concepts again.