Came across Top 10 Trending Python Projects On GitHub: 2020 and could not resist. Looking at a couple of them for our explorations in Natural Language Processing and using Games for Teaching Software. Apache Airflow Airflow pipelines are configuration as code (Python), allowing for dynamic pipeline generation. You can use it for building ML models, […]
How do you bootstrap a culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in your college? Start an Innovation and Entrepreneurship development activity. Find a few mentors from the industry. Involve your nearest TiE/NASSCOM/NEN/CII chapters. Have each mentor adopt a few projects. They can teach students how to generate ideas, build demonstrable prototypes, find initial users and validate […]
Here are a few lessons I learned, doing a workshop at #PyDelhiConf Chatbots are interesting to people (we had good attendance) Jump into the code after showing a couple of overview diagrams (I talked too much) Send the code and tools to the participants a few days earlier Make it interactive (one of the organizers […]
A good teacher worries about a lot of things. Here are a few, I can think of: Do I understand the subject well enough to teach? Do I have both the conceptual and the detailed understanding of the topic? How can I keep the students engaged? How can I evoke curiosity? How do help […]
I was conducting a Python workshop at KCG College a few years ago. I was teaching them basics – variables, strings, control statements, etc. for about half an hour. Then, I gave them a few minutes to try out some examples and started walking around to see how they were doing. I saw Swathi (one […]
A small group to build stuff together, learn together and learn by doing. This will replace techtalks for our weekly meets. A nanoapp is something we can build n a day. The core in a couple of hours. The goal is to learn by doing. We may find open source stuff that to build upon. It will […]
How much should you know about computing, if you are not a software developer? In his podcast titled To Code or Not to Code, Grady discusses how much a functioning member of society today should know about computing. A couple of my favorite snippets from the podcast: Knowledge and understanding have a funny way of […]
XPrize is offering $15 million to build tablet apps that help kids teach themselves. The goal is to help the 250 million school-age children in the world who can’t read or write. Contestants will build apps that kids can use on their own — because many of these kids don’t have access to the “unscalable” […]
I keep talking to lots of students and have some ideas on how we (at educational institutions and community) can help them. Here are some thoughts. Encourage curiosity. Curious kids learn a lot more. Help them explore. Give them broad exposure and have them explore on their own. Exploration helps satisfy their curiosity. Help them become self-learners.Teaching […]
Technology in Education is one of my interests. With the advent of low cost tablets and ubiquitous cloud computing, the way we teach and learn is bound to change. But it is not enough to simply provide technology. We need innovative ways to harness technology. A small team from KCG Social Causes Club tried a few […]