http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/ 2009-11-22T12:48:39-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/ http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-10-15T09:04:19-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/agenda?rev=1224075859 Purdue University, November 15-16, 2007 Thursday, November 15 8:00 – 8:45 BREAKFAST 8:45 – 9:15 Welcome * Welcome by Susanne Hambrusch and Mark Haugan * Opening Remarks by Joseph Urban, NSF [[slides]] * Welcome by Jeff Vitter, Dean, College of Science text/html 2008-11-03T17:02:22-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/agenda08?rev=1225749742 Purdue University, October 30-31, 2008 Thursday, October 30 8:30 – 9:00 BREAKFAST 9:00 – 9:45 Welcome and Introductions * Welcome by Susanne Hambrusch, [[slides]] * Participants Introduction 9:45 – 10:30 SECANT a year later Susanne Hambrusch, Chris Hoffmann, Mark Haugan, Tim Korb, [[slides]] text/html 2008-01-17T08:57:43-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/bird?rev=1200578263 A slight variation of what was given in class... The version developed in class... text/html 2008-01-16T13:09:26-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/birdlist48?rev=1200506966 text/html 2009-09-08T20:17:48-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/hhs?rev=1252455468 The page contains material prepared for W. H. Harrison High School in collaboration with Purdue University as part of the project “Science Education in Computational Thinking (SECANT)”, <http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/>. Programming in Python Lab 1 [Python Interpreter and first Python statements ] text/html 2007-12-18T16:22:57-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/join?rev=1198012977 The SECANT community is made up of faculty and other scientists with an interest in improving the instruction of computer science in the scientific disciplines. All attendees at the 2007 NSF-sponsored SECANT workshop are (or will be soon be) automatically enrolled in the community site and given access to community materials, including workshop videos. If you are working in this area--teaching an introductory computing course, for example--and would like to participate in the discussion, futu… text/html 2007-11-12T14:11:04-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/local_info?rev=1194894664 Travel Information * Campus Map * Purdue Union Club Hotel * Other Hotels * Hilton Garden Inn (765-743-6520/$129 per night) * Holiday Inn Select (765-423-1000/$139-159 per night) * Parking information (Union Club guests park free in Grant Street Garage. Other visitors contact Nicole Piegza at 765-494-9431 for permit information.) * Limo service from and to Indianapolis Airport * Limo service from and to O'Hare Airport * Local area information text/html 2007-11-15T00:12:39-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/panel_descriptions?rev=1195103559 Programming in the small versus the big picture approach Panelists: Dennis Brylow (Marquette University), Tony Hosking (Purdue), Lenny Pitt (UIUC), Bruce Weide (Ohio State) Traditional introductory programming courses emphasize a step-by-step accumulation of skills in the basic building blocks of programs -- variables, expressions, assignment statements, subroutines. This programming in the small emphasizes control structures over abstraction, utilizing simple explicitly programmed data stru… text/html 2007-11-14T14:46:51-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/panel_summaries?rev=1195069611 Programming in the small versus the big picture approach Panelists: Dennis Brylow (Marquette University), Tony Hosking (Purdue), Lenny Pitt (UIUC), Bruce Weide (Ohio State) Traditional introductory programming courses emphasize a step-by-step accumulation of skills in the basic building blocks of programs -- variables, expressions, assignment statements, subroutines. This programming in the small emphasizes control structures over abstraction, utilizing simple explicitly programmed data s… text/html 2008-10-15T09:03:36-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/participants?rev=1224075816 Astrachan, Owen Duke University, Computer Science <http://www.cs.duke.edu/~ola> Blanton, Ethan Purdue University, Computer Science <http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/graduate_students/eblanton> Brylow, Dennis Marquette University, Math, Statistics and Computer Science <http://www.mscs.mu.edu/~brylow/> text/html 2008-09-10T15:25:19-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/register?rev=1221074719 Thank you for registering for the 2nd SECANT Workshop held October 30 & 31 at Purdue University. Please complete the brief form below and submit it. The name you give should be as you would like it to appear on your name badge for the event. We have a block of rooms reserved at the Purdue Memorial Union Club Hotel for the nights of October 29 & 30, 2008. Please call 1-800-320-6291 by October 15, to make your reservation. Room rates are $92-$110. After October 15, the unused rooms in the block… text/html 2009-07-27T11:50:08-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/sidebar?rev=1248709808 Community * Join * Event Calendar * Members * Related Websites * Contact Info * Workshop Videos 2008 Workshop * Announcement * Agenda and Talks * Registration * Local Info * Participants 2007 Workshop * Agenda and Talks * Panel Descriptions * Participants text/html 2009-09-12T16:31:26-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/start?rev=1252787486 SECANT is a community building project funded through the NSF CPATH (Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education) program. The goal of SECANT is to bring together scientists who recognize that computer science has become indispensable to scientific inquiry and is set to permeate science in a manner that is transformative, changing computing from a service discipline for the sciences into a fundamental paradigm for science in general. The effort complements Purdue's recently adopted… text/html 2008-01-10T16:12:10-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/subversion_from_windows?rev=1199999530 One way to access the Subversion repository on secant.cs.purdue.edu from a Windows machine is to use the three programs puttygen, putty, and TortoiseSVN. Copy puttygen.exe to your desktop and launch it. (These instructions were created using version 0.60.) text/html 2007-11-21T11:16:17-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/svn-admin?rev=1195661777 This page gives some notes on the subversion setup at secant.cs.purdue.edu. See the companion page for user information. As users provide me with an SSH key for repository access, I add a line to .ssh/authorized_keys of this form: command="/opt/csw/bin/svnserve -t -r repository --tunnel-user=USER",no-port-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-pty ssh-rsa KEY COMMENT where USER is the UNIX login id of the user and KEY is the public ssh key (a long ASCII string). COMMENT is typ… text/html 2008-01-11T14:47:57-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/svn-windows?rev=1200080877 One way to access the Subversion repository on secant.cs.purdue.edu from a Windows machine is to use the three programs puttygen, putty, and TortoiseSVN. Copy puttygen.exe to your desktop and launch it. (These instructions were created using version 0.60.) text/html 2008-01-11T14:51:18-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/svn?rev=1200081078 A SECANT project repository is available using Subversion (svn) at secant.cs.purdue.edu. This page explains how project members should use it. See this page for setup and administrative information. This page is primarily for UNIX users. Windows instructions are here. text/html 2008-02-26T12:58:29-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/test_page?rev=1204048709 Test page of Ising picture... text/html 2007-08-30T16:55:02-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/thanks?rev=1188507302 Thank you for submitting your registration. We will be in touch with you shortly. text/html 2008-10-13T16:15:25-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/using_jsmath?rev=1223928925 It is possible to enter TeX-style equations into the DokuWiki. Do an “Edit this page” to see how. * Display equations: $$\int {1\over x}\,dx = \ln(x)+C$$ and \[\sum_{i=1}^n i = {n(n+1)\over 2}\] * Inline equations: Like \(ax^2+bx+c\) use \( ... \). TeX-style dollar signs are disabled (to avoid confusion with currency). Another example: \(a_i^2 + b_i^2 = c_i^2\). text/html 2007-09-05T23:22:42-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/vpython_overview?rev=1189048962 The 3D visualization window Creating a window A window is created automatically when a 3D object is instantiated, but a window can be explicitly instantiated with the display() function. Parameters are * title: string to be used to the window title * width, height: dimensions of the window in pixels * center: the point at which the camera will always face * background: an (r,g,b) tuple to use for the background; (1,1,1) is white, (0,0,0) is black text/html 2007-10-29T11:30:07-05:00 http://secant.cs.purdue.edu/workshop?rev=1193671807 November 15-16, 2007 - Purdue University, West Lafayette General announcement of the SECANT workshop in pdf format: SECANT (Science Education in Computational Thinking) is a community building project funded through the NSF CPATH (Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education) program. The goal of SECANT is to bring together computer scientists and natural scientists who recognize that computing has become indispensable to scientific inquiry and is set to permeate science in a tra…