Category Archives: Seq15Oct12

Seq15Oct12: Mailed December 17, 2012. Mechanical MOOCers, We’re wondering if you miss receiving your weekly e-mail as much as we miss sending it.  So we’re sending another.  We hope those of you who had some work left are happily moving … Continue reading →

Seq15Oct12: Mailed December 13, 2012. 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 →

Seq15Oct12: Mailed December 10, 2012. Valiant Mechanical MOOCsters, 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.  We’ll be asking you later … Continue reading →

Seq15Oct12: Mailed December 6, 2012. Mechanical MOOCers, It’s week 7, and you are officially Mechanical MOOC veterans at this point.  In fact, since you are the first group to go through the course, you are also pioneers–the first ever students … Continue reading →

Seq15Oct12: Mailed December 3, 2012. 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 →

Seq15Oct12: Mailed November 29, 2012. 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 →

Seq15Oct12: Mailed November 26, 2012. Mechanical MOOCers, Welcome back. We hope the week off was a good one. On to to week 6–here we begin a shift in the course materials. One last reading, then all exercises and project work … Continue reading →