Look Ma, No Calculator! Python, Markdown & Jupyter Notebooks

Learn how to use Latex and Sympy for free in the cloud!

What you'll learn

In this course, students and teachers alike, will learn how to work on their math and science course work for free in the cloud, no graphing calculators needed!

Jupyter Notebooks include "text windows" aka Markdown to comment your work with HTML tags and Latex commands making professionally laid out formulae and text.

Jupyter Notebooks also include "code windows" aka cells for your Integrated Development Environment (IDE) using Python.

Work examples from Algebra to Calculus using a Python Package called SYMPY, a Computer Algebra System (CAS), free on the Google Compute Platform (GCP).

Requirements

No prior experience is required. I will walk you through all examples from the ground up!

Description

In my course, “Look Ma, No Calculator,” students and teachers alike, will learn how to use Jupyter Notebooks for free in the cloud instead of using expensive graphing calculators in their course work! Students can use Jupyter Notebooks to complete classwork and homework in Math and Science classes and easily check their work. Teachers can use Jupyter Notebooks to plan their Math and Science lessons and deliver lessons in their classrooms coding on the fly with their students.We will be using a free version of Jupyter Notebooks called Colab which is integrated with Google Drive. You can save all your code on Google Drive in special *ipynb (interactive python notebook) files which run live. In other words all your input and output is automatically saved as you type and can easily be edited, shared and re-evaluated as needed.You will learn how to use Jupyter Notebooks as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) on the Google Computer Platform (GCP) using Markdown and Coding cells. Markdown cells use Latex and HTML to produce professionally typeset formulas and text as is found in scholarly journals and textbooks. Coding cells use standard Python for arithmetic and graphing in addition to the SYMPY package for symbolic calculations as a Computer Algebra System (CAS). The cell paradigm is similar to that used by Mathematica or MATLAB.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction: LMNC 100 Welcome!

Lecture 2 LMNC 101a Pythonic Arithmetic Lesson!

Lecture 3 LMNC 101b Pythonic Arithmetic Exercise.

Lecture 4 LMNC 201a Symbolic Python Lesson!

Lecture 5 LMNC 201b Symbolic Python Exercise.

Lecture 6 LMNC 301a Calculus I Lesson!

Lecture 7 LMNC 301b Calculus I Exercise.

Lecture 8 LMNC 401a Calculus II Lesson!

Lecture 9 LMNC 401b Calculus II Exercise.

Lecture 10 LMNC 501a Calculus III Lesson!

Lecture 11 LMNC 501b Calculus III Exercise.

This course is for students and teachers who want to learn a powerful and free CAS for use in their course work in Math & Science classes. We cover everything from standard Python arithmetic to Algebra, Differential Calculus, Integral Calculus and Multivariable Calculus with SYMPY. Teachers will learn to use Jupyter Notebooks with their students right away. Students can easily check their homework and do classwork using Markdown, Latex, Python & SYMPY.