Coding/Engineering Experience for Business Undergraduates #CircuitPlaygroundExpress #MakeCode #Education #CircuitPython @Adafruit @MSMakeCode @gallaugher
Boston College Professor John Gallaugher (Twitter: @gallaugher) has been teaching a core course “Digital Technologies: Strategy & Use” for (mostly) freshmen business students. It combines the study of how technology influences competition with some hands-on skill (usually model building in Excel). He writes:
See this Medium article which goes into detail about the students’ experiences and their creative projects. The accompanying video is below. (ed note: The Baby Groot project in the video is a favorite).
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