Coding in Acoustics Lessons

A picture is said to be worth a thousand words, and in acoustics, moving pictures can be even more valuable in helping students understand complicated and complex phenomena and relationships. My experience has been that the process of creating acoustic animations to use in my teaching has helped me to solidify my understanding, and this has led me to include coding activities in my acoustics lessons, in the hope that my students could get the same benefit. In this webinar, I will demonstrate the use of Jupyter notebooks to combine text, mathematics and coding and explore some of the possibilities, and possible pitfalls, of this approach. My examples will use the Python and Julia languages to explore how choice and use of a particular language can affect the learning process.