Monthly Archives: August 2013

Seq17Jun13: Mailed 16 August 2013. Mechanical MOOCians, We’ve distributed our last assignment e-mail, and we hope that wherever you are in the course progression, you are enjoying the journey.  Don’t worry that the course assignments are all out, we’re in … Continue reading →

Seq17Jun13: Mailed 12 August 2013. Mighty MOOCers, This is it.  The final week’s assignments.  We hope that you’ve learned some Python, made some friends and enjoyed this experiment in a new model for learning.  The final assignment: Codecademy: Units 12 … Continue reading →

Seq17Jun13: Mailed 8 August 2013. Mechanical MOOCers, It’s week 7, and you are officially Mechanical MOOC veterans at this point. We hope you are learning a lot about Python, and we know we are learning a lot about learning.  Thanks … Continue reading →

Seq17Jun13: Mailed 5 August 103. MechMOOCsters, Week 7–less reading and watching, more coding. This week we will finish up the readings, videos and Codecademy exercises, and begin to focus intensively on projects that will put what we’ve learned to practice … Continue reading →

Seq17Jun13: Mailed 1 August 2013. Mechanical MOOCers, You may be wondering what it costs us to run the Mechanical MOOC course–after all, we’re helping hundreds of people to learn Python programming. The answer is not much, which is why we … Continue reading →