![]() ![]() (BTW, that environment is pretty nifty, and appears to run on a virtual machine that is spun up and persist per session.) There seems to be a fair amount of confusion at times one how to access Python on student’s home machine. One question that has come up repeatedly in the forums is how to access the Python Interpreter to work on solutions for problems before entering them into the course’s interactive programming environment. ![]() So, I’ve been working through CS101, answering a few questions in the forum, and getting a feel for the community that exists around the class. Or at least the order for the 5% who finish these classes. And, given this week’s announcement from Coursera that a dozen universities have signed on to offer courses through their platform, a little more critical participation may be in order to see the order of things to come. That’s not exactly a fair position from which to criticize, even if it’s a reality shared by the vast majority of people who sign up for these things. I’ve written critical things about the new wave of massive online courses before, in part because I’ve never finished one. In my spare time this summer, I’ve been working through CS101: Building a Search Engine on udacity. ![]()
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