Category Archives: programming

AppSheet ideas

Posted on April 14, 2024 by Andy Rundquist

AppSheet is a google product that enables you to use Google Sheets as a backend database for a mobile app that works in both the Android and Apple ecosystems. I encourage you to check it out, as it’s become a … Continue reading →

Posted in community, programming, technology | 3 Comments

Mathematica for free

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Andy Rundquist

In this post I’m going to try to capture the steps I took today to get a Jupyter Notebook to run Mathematica commands. I did it on a Windows laptop so if you’re on a Mac of Linux you’ll have … Continue reading →

Posted in computational data science, mathematica, programming, teaching | 12 Comments

Creating bike routes with python

Posted on October 30, 2022 by Andy Rundquist

This weekend my goal was to ride 50 miles to and from my house. In my last post I showed four ways to find where I could get to for a certain distance, but I really hate “there and back” … Continue reading →

Posted in fun, math, programming, technology | 2 Comments

Programming for me vs you

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Andy Rundquist

I almost titled this “I hate ‘input’ and ‘print’” but that’s not really true. I’m teaching a course called “Introduction to Computational Data Science” this semester, just like I did last spring, and even with only two days under my … Continue reading →

Posted in programming, teaching | 6 Comments

Boltzmann to Blackbody to Electoral College

Posted on November 15, 2020 by Andy Rundquist

Ok, I know that’s a weird title, but bear with me, this has some fun stuff in it, including some things I still need help with. The basic idea is that Planck’s solution to Blackbody radiation is an interesting way … Continue reading →

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Web App Dev with GAS course

Posted on June 20, 2020 by Andy Rundquist

Next month (July 2020) I’m teaching a course called Web App Development with Google Apps Script. I’m excited about it but I realized that I’ve never really described what will happen in the class, especially for those outside of Hamline … Continue reading →

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Synchronous meeting dashboard

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Andy Rundquist

A while ago I made a site (and blogged about it) that I dubbed “my turn now” (think of a young kid begging to play when you say that aloud) that facilitated moderating a discussion. At the time I made … Continue reading →

Posted in programming, teaching | 10 Comments

Cold live coding in class

Posted on March 7, 2020 by Andy Rundquist

I tried an experiment yesterday in my Introduction to Computational Data Science course. We have been working on doing analysis of Kaggle data sets, with each student having picked what they want to work on that will also lead to … Continue reading →

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Lifelong computational skills

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Andy Rundquist

I’m frantically putting together my syllabus for our brand new Computational Data Science intro course (this comes after a programming course) and I realized that I’m not using one of my favorite syllabus planning tools: this blog! This course was … Continue reading →

Posted in arduino, programming, syllabus creation, teaching | 8 Comments

Google Apps Script Physics Problem Database

Posted on October 26, 2019 by Andy Rundquist

I tweeted out the other day an opinion about using google apps script (GAS from now on) as a web framework: That led to some follow up from my awesome tweeps, including a nudge to write this blog post, so … Continue reading →

Posted in HUWebApps, physics problem db, programming | 6 Comments