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I take care to practice the strategies for creating an inclusive computer science learning environment I learned in the <a class="reference external" href="http://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/">Carpentries instructor Training</a>.</p> <div class="sd-container-fluid sd-sphinx-override sd-mb-4 docutils"> <div class="sd-row sd-row-cols-2 sd-row-cols-xs-2 sd-row-cols-sm-2 sd-row-cols-md-2 sd-row-cols-lg-2 sd-g-2 sd-g-xs-2 sd-g-sm-2 sd-g-md-2 sd-g-lg-2 docutils"> <div class="sd-col sd-d-flex-row docutils"> <div class="sd-card sd-sphinx-override sd-w-100 sd-shadow-sm docutils"> <div class="sd-card-body docutils"> <div class="sd-card-title sd-font-weight-bold docutils"> Computer Systems and Programming Tools</div> <p class="sd-card-text">This is a new course that I designed to fill gaps identifies by students and</p> </div> <div class="sd-card-footer docutils"> <p class="sd-card-text"><a class="reference external" href="https://compsys-progtools.github.io/">course site, with syllabi by semester - current</a></p> <p class="sd-card-text"><a class="reference external" href="https://introcompsys.github.io/">course site - first iterations</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sd-col sd-d-flex-row docutils"> <div class="sd-card sd-sphinx-override sd-w-100 sd-shadow-sm docutils"> <div class="sd-card-body docutils"> <div class="sd-card-title sd-font-weight-bold docutils"> Machine Learning for Science and Society</div> </div> <div class="sd-card-footer docutils"> <p class="sd-card-text"><a class="reference external" href="https://ml4scisoc.github.io/about.html">course site, with syllabi by semester</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sd-col sd-d-flex-row docutils"> <div class="sd-card sd-sphinx-override sd-w-100 sd-shadow-sm docutils"> <div class="sd-card-body docutils"> <div class="sd-card-title sd-font-weight-bold docutils"> Programming for Data Science </div> <p class="sd-card-text">My key revisions to this course have been to:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p class="sd-card-text">more code inspection</p></li> <li><p class="sd-card-text">more authentic tasks in assignments</p></li> <li><p class="sd-card-text">participatory live coding instruction</p></li> <li><p class="sd-card-text">mastery based grading</p></li> <li><p class="sd-card-text">more, smaller assignments</p></li> </ul> <p class="sd-card-text">I also <a class="reference external" href="https://proceedings.mlr.press/v170/brown22a.html">wrote a workshop paper</a> on the design of the course</p>  </div> <div class="sd-card-footer docutils"> <p class="sd-card-text"><a class="reference external" href="https://rhodyprog4ds.github.io/">course site, with syllabi by semester</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sd-col sd-d-flex-row docutils"> <div class="sd-card sd-sphinx-override sd-w-100 sd-shadow-sm docutils"> <div class="sd-card-body docutils"> <div class="sd-card-title sd-font-weight-bold docutils"> Data & Society</div> <p class="sd-card-text">a required course in the Brown University MS in DS</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p class="sd-card-text"><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/brownsarahm/data_society_lesson_plans">lecture notes(partial)</a></p></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="section" id="short-courses"> <h2>Short Courses<a class="headerlink" href="#short-courses" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h2> <div class="sd-container-fluid sd-sphinx-override sd-mb-4 docutils"> <div class="sd-row docutils"> <div class="sd-col sd-d-flex-row docutils"> <div class="sd-card sd-sphinx-override sd-w-100 sd-shadow-sm docutils"> <div class="sd-card-body docutils"> <div class="sd-card-title sd-font-weight-bold docutils"> Packaging and Publishing in Python</div> <p class="sd-card-text">a <a class="reference external" href="https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/python-packaging-publishing/">lesson</a> on how to organize, package, and document a python project in the Carpentries Incubator</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sd-col sd-d-flex-row docutils"> <div class="sd-card sd-sphinx-override sd-w-100 sd-shadow-sm docutils"> <div class="sd-card-body docutils"> <div class="sd-card-title sd-font-weight-bold docutils"> Software Carpentry Workshop at UCSF</div> <p class="sd-card-text">I taught the python sections of the two day Software Carpentry workshop hosted by the <a class="reference external" href="https://gboushey.github.io/2017-03-10-UCSF-Python/">UCSF Library March 10-11, 2018</a>.</p> <p class="sd-card-text">I used the <a class="reference external" href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder/">SWC Python Gapminder</a> curriculum with <a class="reference external" href="http://sarahmbrown.org/python-novice-gapminder/">minor modifications to emphasize extra features of jupyter notebooks</a>. I used github to manage the student downloads (by .zip files) and the <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/brownsarahm/python-novice-gapminder-files/tree/ucsfpostworkshop">final post workshop content</a> and <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/brownsarahm/python-novice-gapminder-files/blob/master/instructor_resources/create_workshop_branch.ipynb">documented the process</a> I used to for setup with this jupyter notebook.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sd-col sd-d-flex-row docutils"> <div class="sd-card sd-sphinx-override sd-w-100 sd-shadow-sm docutils"> <div class="sd-card-body docutils"> <div class="sd-card-title sd-font-weight-bold docutils"> Bayesian Nonparametric Guest Lectures</div> <p class="sd-card-text">I guest lectured in my PhD adviser Jennifer Dy鈥檚 graduate machine learning course. 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