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Learn programming in Python for free from Microsoft

Byryan September 26, 2019September 25, 2019

Microsoft has launched a new 44-part series called Python for Beginners on YouTube, consisting of three- to four-minute lessons from two self-described geeks at Microsoft who love programming and teaching.

The course isn’t quite for total beginners as it assumes people have done a little programming in JavaScript or played around with the MIT-developed Scratch visual programming language aimed at kids.

But it could help beginners kick-start ambitions to build machine-learning apps, web applications, or automate processes on a desktop.

Source: Microsoft: We want you to learn Python programming language for free | ZDNet

Disregard what the article mentions about Python 2. Python 2 was end-of-lifed back in 2015 and is dead for good come January. At this stage, there is no reason to learn Python 2.

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How to find free illustrations for your multimedia projects

Byryan October 19, 2021October 16, 2021

Source: 404 Illustrations Since my artistic skills are lacking, I love it when I stumble upon free graphics that I can use. Although 404 Illustrations‘ goal is to provide graphics for 404 pages (those pages that come up when you try access a page that doesn’t exist) a lot of the graphics are generic enough that…

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Help your students plan their work with this list of helpful templates

Byryan September 7, 2021September 7, 2021

Source: 15 Checklist, Schedule, and Planner Templates for Students I’m more of a fan of lists like this to use for inspiration in creating my own, especially since some of these resources do cost. This is a great list to get started with on helping your students plan and prepare for their workload. It seems…

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Poverty’s affect different in the US vs other developed nations

Byryan December 22, 2015December 22, 2015

Poverty stunts IQ in the US but not in other developed countries In a new meta-analysis of 14 psychology studies from the past few decades, researchers found that the strength of poverty’s pull differed by country, with US poverty providing the only forceful yank among developed nations. The authors, who published the results in Psychological…

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Nova Scotia is pushing computer programming

Byryan November 10, 2015November 7, 2015

Computer coding coming soon to Nova Scotia curriculum Nova Scotia hopes to incorporate computer coding into the curriculum next year so that students get more hands-on experience with the technology that makes the modern world work. The province is teaching students from Grade Primary to Grade 3 the basics of computers this year, and the hope is…

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When it comes to badges, it may be smart to start with the teachers

Byryan November 4, 2015November 3, 2015

So You Want to Drive Instruction With Digital Badges? Start With the Teachers While badging for students shows real promise, a partnership between the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and VIF International Education demonstrates that in the short run the best approach to scaling digital badging is not to focus on students, but on their teachers….

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Sharing: Exploring Graphing with Kindergarten using Google Sheets (via @alicekeeler)

Byryan April 1, 2016March 30, 2016

Exploring Graphing with Kindergarten using Google Sheets Use this Google Sheets template with Kindergarteners to explore graphing. Students use physical manipulatives to count and then represent the number in a graph. What an awesome collection of templates to use with Kindergarteners in Google Sheets! These could be used at the higher grade levels too. Do…

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