Minutes July 6th 2016

1. Will follows up on how to make a COLL course.

   • What are the deadlines for spring?
   • What are the requirements to be able to teach a COLL course?
     • Need a faculty sponsor associated with a college (e.g. one of our advisors).
     • Course description (?).

2. We should establish a timeline

   • Need approximately 20 classes worth of material. Enough for 1 per lecture and then some cushion.
   • Create a skeleton for the course on the Github wiki before writing new notebooks.
   • Timeline should consider
     • Balance of programming concepts and physics/chemistry problems.
     • Probably every physical problem can illustrate most programming concepts.
     • Course should naturally escalate in difficulty/complexity.

3. Structure of overall course

   • Each week identical or alternate lecture/lab? We decided that each week should be identical for now.
   • Assign HW? Probably not, but we should have suggested problems for further practice.
   • Weekly class. ~2 hours.

4. Structure

   • All notebook-based
   • Start class with a more guided walkthrough or brief introduction of some concept/problem. Try to limit the time we spend in "lecture mode".
   • After introduction, lab becomes interactive with individual coding activites. We float around as TA's to help individuals/groups.
   • Reconvene to get class discussion of problem, summarize/recapitulate concept/problem, or more detailed demonstration.