Agenda 7/27

Schedule

• Codecademy 10/15 should work (but assumption w/b that we deliver that also piece on 12/10)
• Same start date as MITx and EdX
• Get the message out in late August (so we can start talking about it publicly) & give a chance for our partners to present their best face
• A bit later, but we'll be more prepared

Marketing

• Begin talking about it August 15th

Front Page Image
Content Structure

• SC is concerned there isnt enough content to do
• Looking at Videos--needs to watch a few more to see how they fit in
• A bit more work to be done--pulling content from different parts
• We're building these things out of what we have available

Updates from Philipp

You've been invited on this adventure
What are the characteristics of the voice that we want to have here?
- Optomistic
- A sense of wonder at the new age of learning
- Element of matchmaking
- Responsibilty to each other
- Encouragement to build on, bring in other tools make suggestions

Workflow-->send them content and homework, Open Study is for a quick answer, group is a better place for a more extended discussion of a concept or collaborative work
Point them to the content for the week

• send them to codecademy for immediate concepts
• If you get stuck, go to OpenStudy
• work on homework and projects from MIT
• Ask your small group for projects and sustained discussion
• Reminder of deadlines

Preparatory information
- What you get for your work - badges at Codecademy, SmartScore at OpenStudy and code you can show a potential employer, and smart frineds
-VMG puts that info in the form [makes those changes to John's HTML]

Signup form 
- Additions to the signup form: future notifications from MIT OpenCourseWare? Yes or no

Next Steps
Steve: Better integrating MIT piece
Reset the awareness plan, MIT calendar
Update email to everyone involved
Photo suggestions for http://mechanicalmooc.org/
Vanessa: add MIT noficatirons, sample email message from 1 and 2 from perspective of steampunk Darmody

Agenda

Update on timeline and schedule

• Timeline is initially ambitious
• Restablish when the best time to publicisize and get key dates established
  • Hard to get attention in August
  • Back to School marketing message starting in August 15 for promotion
  • Launch 8/4/2012--after Labor day
  • End 12/10/2012?
• Codecademy should have up to 3 units by then
• Decide to run an 8 week course instead of a 4 week course

Content coordination

• Aiming for loose alignment--for instance, loops might not sync up
• Office of Research and Technology staff member helping out

Mechanical Mooc site

• Feedback [Steve likes the vanilla ice video]

Scripting

• Will be complete 7/25 on P2PU side

Outstanding questions:

• Move from 4 to 8 week course?
• If we sync up with Codecademy then start is mid-October
• Is this applicable to all disciplines?

Action Items
Check with Codecademy about content map and start date
Fiction project--think about
When we regroup sequencing and messages to learners


Content

Todo:

• Break into 6-8 week script
• Pull together various MIT resources
  • Use old course for basic structure
  • Add textbook from new course
  • Add videos from 6.00 course
    • Identify appropriate starting points (format URLs to control playback)
• Match to code tutorials
• Write copy

Spreadsheet View:

• https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgN51_rARHlKdHB2blFlN0RkLTZpV21OZWM4R3pZdFE#gid=0

MIT 6.189 Course (new version)

• This version has a free downloadable textbook
• http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-189-a-gentle-introduction-to-programming-using-python-january-iap-2011/readings/

MIT 6.189 (old version / usually taught in 4 weeks)

• This version has better general content (handouts etc.)
• http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-189-a-gentle-introduction-to-programming-using-python-january-iap-2011/lectures/

MIT 6.00 Course

• This is a much longer more ambitious course (our course is a prerequisite) but has nice video that could be used
• Introductory part of this course is "learning python" and contains useful video lectures, esp first two lectures
• http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00sc-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-spring-2011/
• http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/

Python Tutorials (CA)

• Unit 1: Python Syntax (whitespace, comments, variables, importing modules, math operations)
• Unit 2: Strings and string methods (printing, advanced printing)
• Unit 3: Conditionals & Control Flow (Comparators, if, else, elif, case, switch)
• Unit 4: Functions (use earlier syntax, read files, argv)
• Unit 5: Lists & Dictionaries (dynamic and flexible typing, how lists and dictionaries work and why we use them) 
• Unit 6: Challenge (Build something)
• Unit 7: Combining concepts (functions & lists / dictionaries; conditionals and lists / dictionaries)
• Unit 8: Loops (for and while loops, list comprehensions)
• Unit 9: Combine concepts (loops & early syntax; list comprehensions, functions and control flow)
• Unit 10: Advanced topics (iterators for dictionaries; yield and other ways of using generators)
• Unit 11: Classes (basics of classes; inheritances, multiple interhitances, private variables)
• Unit 12: Challenge (Build something)