Code Lesson: Crunching Public Data

This course is available for pre-enrollment at Code Lesson.

The course Description:

Go beyond the spreadsheet! Crunching Public Data is an introductory programming course intended specifically for public- and private-sector knowledge workers who want to make sense of data stored in tabular format, then analyze and visualize it in meaningful ways. In the course we make use of actual data from the US government site data.gov to give students real-world experience with data analysis, particularly with data sets in the megabyte to gigabyte range that are larger than spreadsheets can typically handle.

This has a lot of promise for the CS Principles Data Portfolio - cant wait to see what they cover. The plan is to use Python to do the processing.

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The original post has lots of updates - amazing how many web sites are available for coding.

List is here

As I get time this summer I will try to update as to what websites work on tablets/Chromebooks.

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Over the past year so many new tools for teaching Computer Science have arrived.

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Here are just a few:

• App Inventor - apps for Android devices
• Code in the Browser JavaScript
• CodeAcademy
• Javascript, HTML, CSS, APIs, Python, Ruby
• CodingBat
• CodePad 
• C++, Lua, Python, Ruby and several others
• Code Spells * - kids learn Java by playing a game
• Computer Science Circles *  
• Python with explanation as you go
• Google Blockly *
• Khan Academy *
• Learn Street * - JavaScript, Ruby, Python, etc
• PHP for Kids *
• PythonMonk *
• Scratch 2.0 * (Beta)
• Snap Online
• Team Treehouse (not free)*
• Touch Develop *
• Try F# *
• W3Schools * - HTML, CSS

Also - a list of 10 free online resources, including MOOCs. *

Several of these let you start trying out code without really being aware of what language you are using. It leads to the question - does language matter?

I am starting to wonder if we even should be teaching a specific language in the beginning. Perhaps a better approach is to expose students to successful coding situations, build some positive experiences, then start to get more depth with one language.

This list is a quick start. Let me know if you know of any sites that should be listed.

*Updated 4/7/13

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Ive been trying to keep up with all of the new ways to learn to code online - the first list is here. The new APCS Principles course has a lot of elements that move beyond teaching computer science as a coding class, including teaching about the Internet and using data. It is getting hard to keep up.

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A few top 20 lists:

• Top 20 Online training sites for Web Design 
• Top 20 Data Visualization Tools
• Top 20 Coding Online Tools

And for a little numerical diversity:

• Top 10 Sites for Free Education with Elite Universities

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