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Referring to matters of learning/teaching computational science

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What core skills should every computational scientist have?

Every scientist needs to know a bit about statistics: what correlation means, what a confidence interval is, and so on. Similarly, every scientist ought to know a bit about computing: the question is, what? What it is reasonable to expect every…
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Universities known for computational physics

I am very interested in computational physics and it is great lot of fun studying these topics. Since I am planning to go one semester abroad, I was wondering what universities are known for computational physics? Especially in regard to…
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How can we evaluate performance of students in computational science courses?

As someone who has to teach courses in computational science, I am confronted with the age-old question: how do I evaluate the ability of the students to learn a subject that depends on applications that are difficult to test with "standard" testing…
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Are there sites for discussing more informally about computational modelling?

Are there sites for discussing more informally about computational modelling? Forum-style, rather than QA.
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Difference between Computational science and Computational X (X = some natural science or discipline)

Where is the divide between a computational scientist and a computational X (X = some natural science or discipline)? What questions could someone ask themself to decide which is the best route for them?
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Pedagogical examples from mainstream libraries

I will shortly be teaching a second-year Python-based course on scientific computation in a mathematics department. It is just a one semester course with many things to cover, so I do not want to spend too much time on any one thing. However, I…
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Is a CSE masters deemed too similar to a masters in maths?

I have a masters in maths and have been working in industry for a couple of years. Since I specialized more towards pure maths during my studies (theoretical PDEs), I have found myself needing to pick up many computational skills when I started…
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