Draft curriculum for 101

[wmburke]

SciSpark 101: Introduction to Scala for Scientists

Abstract/Agenda:

We introduce a 3 part course module on SciSpark, our AIST14 funded project for Highly Interactive and Scalable Climate Model Metrics and Analytics. The three part course session introduces a 101, 202, and 303 class for learning how to use Spark for science.

SciSpark 101 is a 1.5 hour session teaching Scala for scientists. We will begin with some basics including SBT, and command line scala usage. We will write some simple Scala programs, and use some libraries in Scala including Breeze and ND4J to access scientific data, and interact with it. We will also discuss Apache Zeppelin as a notebook for developing Scala programs.

[wmburke]

@MBoustani You are in here also. ;)

We need a draft version of the following information in the curriculum101.md file:
Curriculum outline:

• who is the audience
• what is the level of understanding in the topics of basic topic computer science, scientific computing, and earth sciences
• objectives of the course
• what will they accomplish having done this course
• resources - books and exercises to be developed
• how to we measure success

[wmburke]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1an9XGTD0xc0dIiOVhE-kxPshnUrtQWdoHLJg4fvBxfs/edit

[valeriearoth]

Made a new doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lgws-dWZj_HV9cfgb2Qe3NqQxV8B4YqC8JiTFxuE2EI/edit?usp=sharing