A digital compendium for an introductory course in numerical methods for engineering students
Abstract
Time: 13:20 - 13:40 We have recently developed an online digital compendium to be used in an introductory course in numerical methods for engineering students (applied mechanics and civil engineering). In our approach, we... [ view full abstract ]
Time: 13:20 - 13:40
We have recently developed an online digital compendium to be used in an introductory course in numerical methods for engineering students (applied mechanics and civil engineering). In our approach, we blend the theory of the numerical methods with their corresponding implementation, in a practical manner which encourages the students to actually make use of their computers while reading the theory. At first sight our digital compendium may look similar to an iPython Notebook, however the important difference is that we allow the python code to be directly downloaded to the student’s computers, whenever the compendium is rendered in the popular integrated development environment (IDE) Eclipse. The compendium is written in the simple and minimally tagged markup language DocOnce, whereas a web-parser for code-snippet parsing was developed as a plugin for Eclipse. With our approach, we embed the teaching resource in the IDE, as opposed to the iPython Notebook which embeds code in the teaching resources. In this way we lower the threshold for the students to exploit the teaching resources in their programming practices, and they may easily make use of examples from this course in later courses. Didactically we reduce the need for task switching and multitasking which are well known pedagogical challenges.
Authors
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Leif Rune Hellevik
(NTNU)
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Fredrik Eikeland Fossan
(NTNU)
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Lucas Omar Müller
(NTNU)
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Hallvard Trætteberg
(NTNU)
Topic Area
Education in Computational Science and Engineering
Session
» Education in CSE - part II (13:00 - Tuesday, 24th October, 12th floor - Stratos)