📅 2025-03-10 — Session: Development of Python and Pandas Exercises
🕒 07:05–09:00
🏷️ Labels: Python, Pandas, Education, Exercises, Programming
📂 Project: Teaching
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to develop and enhance a series of exercises for teaching Python and Pandas to beginners, focusing on both fundamental programming concepts and data manipulation skills.
Key Activities
- Structured Python Exercises: Created a set of exercises for beginners to learn Python, covering basic to executable programs.
- Enhanced Python Fundamentals: Developed exercises teaching Python fundamentals, including data structures, control flow, and string manipulation.
- Geringoso Translator Exercise: Designed an exercise to create a Geringoso translator in Python, introducing functions and classes.
- Exercise Evaluation: Improved existing Python exercises, focusing on arithmetic operations and simulations for advanced learners.
- Progressive Exercise Strategy: Planned a coherent strategy for progressive Python exercises, teaching functions, classes, and executable scripts.
- Common Python Errors: Compiled a guide and workshop on common beginner errors in Python, providing solutions and examples.
- Debugging Exercise: Created a dynamic debugging exercise for identifying and correcting common code errors.
- Pandas Exercises: Proposed a new structure for teaching Pandas with clear objectives and tasks, including exercises on data I/O and manipulation.
Achievements
- Developed a comprehensive set of exercises for Python and Pandas, facilitating a structured learning path for beginners.
- Addressed common beginner errors in Python with practical solutions.
Pending Tasks
- Further refinement of exercises based on student feedback.
- Integration of exercises into a broader curriculum for continuous learning.