Episode 54: Making Projects Happen with Eric Matthes (@ehmatthes)
Sean and Kelly invite Eric Matthes, teacher and author of Python Crash Course to discuss student projects in computer science. Eric was with us on Episode 33 and we ended the episode with discussions ...
10 Nov 20201h 14min
Episode 53: Developing for Mobile, the Web, and Desktop with Russell Keith-Magee ( @freakboy3742 )
This week's guest is Russell Keith-Magee from the Beeware project. Our conversation this week is about teaching students Python with native desktop applications, mobile, and the web. Plus, why do we h...
27 Okt 202057min
Episode 52: Teaching the Full Stack with Ali Spittel (@alispittel)
Sean and Kelly invite Ali Spittel to talk about how teachers can go beyond their first programming language and help students learn to create more robust projects. If you’ve started with Python, how d...
20 Okt 202059min
Episode 51: Engaging Your Students With The Right Language Featuring @jolson_codes
Sean and Kelly invite Jeff Olson (@jolson_codes) to the show. Let’s take a look at language in the Computer Science classroom and focus on how we can put our students first by engaging them in the “ri...
8 Okt 20201h 2min
Episode 50: Teaching Robotics With Python
This week, Sean & Kelly discuss how they are using Python to teach robotics in middle school, including the hardware and software it takes to get students thinking about how robots sense, process, and...
30 Sep 202030min
Episode 49: Python Tutor with Philip Guo
This week, Kelly and Sean interview Philip Guo, associate professor of cognitive science at UC San Diego. As a grad student in 2010, Philip created Python Tutor, the most widely-used program visualiza...
22 Sep 202044min
Episode 48: What We Are Using in 2020 To Teach Python
Let’s take a look at the tools we’re using in our classroom for the 2020-2021 school year to teach Python for middle school students. From IDEs to flash cards, coding challenges to Colab notebooks, an...
15 Sep 20201h 4min
Episode 47: Deconstructing the List Lesson
Let’s take a deeper look at how we teach students about one of Python’s most venerable data structures: the list. For many learners, the list is the first data structure that they encounter and it can...
1 Sep 20201h 3min
