Teaching Programming: Some Tips and Tricks

Here is a collection of my thoughts and experiments on better teaching programming. This article is written in the context of the Mathematics Lab with Python taught in colleges in Bangalore/Karnataka. I have tried almost all of it: and I have seen them building confidence among students to write codes themselves. The most adopted strategy…

Solving Linear ODE using Python

Solving nth Order Linear Differential Equations using Laplace Transforms in Python

Programming Project Idea: Useless (Live) Wallpaper

Here’s another project idea I’ve beem sitting on for a while now. To see other project ideas posted in this blog, visit this category. Inspiration Let me conclude it in two lines: This XKCD cartoon and Shannon’s Useless Machine. Concept A live wallpaper, with one button and a counter like this. The button simply resets…

Programming Project Idea: Seventy-Thirty

Programming Project Idea: Seventy-Thirty / An Unreliable Chat App

The Ugly Professor

The professor walks into a PostGrad Java class.. and starts telling a children’s story.