At IRE, all students are currently working on their team
project, competencies, and professionalism; concurrently, several students are also
undertaking an innovative, online class through Udacity.
Udacity is offering several free, online courses, beginning with a computer
science 101 class. The ultimate goal of the class is to write a web crawler
program which is like a simplified version of Google’s or Bing’s search engines.
The online class involves watching short YouTube videos, answering questions
about those videos, and then practicing writing a program as homework. The
programming environment is in Python, which I have found similar to several of
the languages I have previously used, i.e. C++ and VBA. Overall, the course has
provided a good review of programming and has introduced several new concepts.
Below is a sample of code used to print out multiplication
or division of two input numbers:
Proofread by Brian Stephenson and Michael Rudi
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