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Source for our Back To School program

DBHi Back to School Tutorial Curriculum

This an introduction to bioinformatics programming for high school age students. It walks students from a "Hello World" style script to a creating a dynamic webpage to manipulate a medical image. This is not intended as a full introductory course to programming concepts, but rather a view into what is possible. We've chosen to use a CGI script because it is a very simple way to quickly migrate the students from printing text to the screen to outputting text to a webpage. This tutorial is intended to run approximately two hours so we have placed an emphasis on simplicity. Each student or team of students can run through the entire tutorial on a Raspberry PI.

Proposed Curriculum Outline

1. Introduce students to the Raspberry PI hardware.
2. Introduce students to Python using the Python Coding GUI
3. Introduce students to HTML/CSS using one of the following
   1. Text Editor and Browser
   2. Google Coder Raspberry PI image
   3. miniCodeEditor. Checkout minicodeeditor branch. Run git submodule init, git submodule update. Then run server.py followed by start_edit.sh to see how this would work.
   4. Editr.js. Checkout editr branch. Run git submodule init, git submodule update. Then run server.py and go to http://localhost:8000 in the browser to see a demo of this. It looks pretty slick but pushes the limits of the PI's browser when using the code editor.
   5. TinkerPad looks promising. No demo yet, but see here.