I have a student whose daughter I also teach. She is a software engineer, and although I am becoming familiar with her work and the terms used in her work, I am having trouble finding materials that would help me with additional content for when we need something else to do. We usually go over presentations she has, and I help with her presentation notes, providing guidance with pronunciation and fluency. I was wondering if any one knows of materials I can use or has any suggestions of how I can keep such a class moving along in an interesting manner. There have been no issues so far, but I am just preparing for potential gaps I might need to fill in during class time.
Thank you. I will create a free account and see how it helps. I suppose I should get something like a For Dummies book to familiarize myself with key terms and become familiar with workflows. I want to go beyond one student in this field because it seems really interesting.
I don’t think you need to learn engineering. It’s her job to try and explain it to you as a practice. I have students from different diciplines and that’s what I ask them to do, if they want to discuss their profession in class. After all, I’m an English teacher, not a physics teacher. This would also help them with problem solving in real life senario.
I usually let them do free conversations once the basics are all covered. They usually won’t have the energy to focus on things that don’t interest them/are too complicated after work.
The Stack Overflow suggestion was a joke (software engineer joke so not funny for other people).
For Dummies book will not do, it simply does not exist as software engineering has become too broad domain. First find what she specializes in to get better suggestions.
There is plenty of decent content on the web. If you look for videos (not strictly tutorials) you can have a look at Google Developers channel on Youtube or similar format from IT conferences.
Indeed. SOP with ESP is the students tell the teacher specific vocabulary and jargon. The teacher then helps with pronunciation and usage.
Unfortunately, cultural considerations also come into play.
Care to elaborate?
Some cultures are more inclined to view the teacher as an expert on content.
She works for Google developing video and photography, especially as it relates to social media apps.
I have found that what you say is true to some extent. She is very reasonable and does her best to explain terms to me. I had no idea what “binning” was in tech jargon. Now I get it even if I will probably never ever use it again in my life outside of a class setting.
Do you mean binding or binning? In the latter, I might have to catch up with my knowledge.
This definition is the same one she gave me:
“ Binning is the combination of two or more CCD image sensor pixels to form a new “super-pixel” prior to readout and digitizing. … This improves signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR), allowing exceptional quality image recording, at extremely low light levels. It also results in a reduction in the image spatial resolution.”
It’s the first hit fir “binning resolution” on a Google search.