📅 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.