scicode-widgets: Bringing Computational Experiments to the Classroom with Jupyter Widgets
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| author | Goscinski, Alexander Baird, Taylor James Du, Dou Prado, João Suman, Divya Sodjargal, Tulga-Erdene Bonella, Sara Pizzi, Giovanni Ceriotti, Michele |
| author_facet | Goscinski, Alexander Baird, Taylor James Du, Dou Prado, João Suman, Divya Sodjargal, Tulga-Erdene Bonella, Sara Pizzi, Giovanni Ceriotti, Michele |
| contents | "Computational experiments" use code and interactive visualizations to convey mathematical and physical concepts in an intuitive way, and are increasingly used to support ex cathedra lecturing in scientific and engineering disciplines. Jupyter notebooks are particularly well-suited to implement them, but involve large amounts of ancillary code to process data and generate illustrations, which can distract students from the core learning outcomes. For a more engaging learning experience that only exposes relevant code to students, allowing them to focus on the interplay between code, theory and physical insights, we developed scicode-widgets (released as scwidgets), a Python package to build Jupyter-based applications. The package facilitates the creation of interactive exercises and demonstrations for students in any discipline in science, technology and engineering. Students are asked to provide pedagogically meaningful contributions in terms of theoretical understanding, coding ability, and analytical skills. The library provides the tools to connect custom pre- and post-processing of students' code, which runs seamlessly "behind the scenes", with the ability to test and verify the solution, as well as to convert it into live interactive visualizations driven by Jupyter widgets. |
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| spellingShingle | scicode-widgets: Bringing Computational Experiments to the Classroom with Jupyter Widgets Goscinski, Alexander Baird, Taylor James Du, Dou Prado, João Suman, Divya Sodjargal, Tulga-Erdene Bonella, Sara Pizzi, Giovanni Ceriotti, Michele Physics Education Chemical Physics "Computational experiments" use code and interactive visualizations to convey mathematical and physical concepts in an intuitive way, and are increasingly used to support ex cathedra lecturing in scientific and engineering disciplines. Jupyter notebooks are particularly well-suited to implement them, but involve large amounts of ancillary code to process data and generate illustrations, which can distract students from the core learning outcomes. For a more engaging learning experience that only exposes relevant code to students, allowing them to focus on the interplay between code, theory and physical insights, we developed scicode-widgets (released as scwidgets), a Python package to build Jupyter-based applications. The package facilitates the creation of interactive exercises and demonstrations for students in any discipline in science, technology and engineering. Students are asked to provide pedagogically meaningful contributions in terms of theoretical understanding, coding ability, and analytical skills. The library provides the tools to connect custom pre- and post-processing of students' code, which runs seamlessly "behind the scenes", with the ability to test and verify the solution, as well as to convert it into live interactive visualizations driven by Jupyter widgets. |
| title | scicode-widgets: Bringing Computational Experiments to the Classroom with Jupyter Widgets |
| topic | Physics Education Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05734 |