Professor Barba Launches a Beginner Course in Computing for Engineering Majors

Professor Lorena Barba, from GW, has announced an open online course on computing for engineers: Get Data Off The Ground with Python on the GW Engineering platform –built by IBL on the Open edX software.  This is the first in a series of course modules on computation for engineering students.

The first module in Engineering Computations creates a foundation for Python programming. “You learn to handle core data types (strings, lists) and also n-dimensional arrays. The first three lessons have essentially no mathematics, to focus on the programming patterns. The fourth lesson deals with creating and operating on arrays. The final lesson is a worked example of linear regression with real data. The target audience is first-year engineering students, but the course would be equally useful to students in any science or technology field,” explained Professor Barba.

 

I’m making an open online course with the first module of our computing course for engineers—Get Data Off The Ground with Python https://t.co/zAVYQMU3PG #EngineersCode @gwengineering

— Lorena Barba (@LorenaABarba) March 15, 2018