Learning Computer Science with Python and Music(21)
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Claims that composing with Python and symbolic notation teaches core CS skills and reverses the usual “apply CS to X” flow. Built an open toolchain around music21 plus Jupyter and MIDI/MusicXML pipelines, shipped thousands of ready scores, ran a decade of courses and a lab where novices (including first‑semester students) tackle BFS/DFS, recursion, identity vs equivalence, graph models and emergent generative pieces. Evidence: classroom assignments, student projects, an OCW course, a startup backend, and corpora like 4,000 novels used in DH work.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:11Arts and CS flow
- 4:21Python and music
- 8:13music21 capabilities
- 13:56Music enhances CS learning
- 20:03Pattern transfer
- 23:54Applied programming learning
- 24:38Q&A
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