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New Wolfram Technologies Books Reach a Global Audience

As this new year begins and the books keep rolling in, we are happy to share with you an exciting new selection of texts featuring Wolfram technologies. If you're looking for a New Year's resolution for 2016, why not consider learning how to use Mathematica or the Wolfram Language? In this post are several books for beginners in English, German, and Japanese, as well as more advanced books for those who are looking to sharpen their skills.
Jenna Giuffrida, Content Administrator, Technical Communications and Strategy Group
Education & Academic

I Wrote a Book—To Teach the Wolfram Language

An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language is available in print, free on the web, etc. I wasn’t sure if I was ever going to write another book. My last book—A New Kind of Science—took me more than a decade of intensely focused work, and is the largest personal project I’ve ever done. But a […]

Stephen Wolfram
Education & Academic

Special Event: The Hour of Code with Wolfram

The global Hour of Code event is almost here, and we’re excited to announce that Wolfram will be celebrating this year with a free workshop at our headquarters in Champaign, Illinois. Even if you’ve never programmed before, you can experience the excitement of creating your first website by the time you leave. The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in over 180 countries. It gives a short introduction to computer science and shows how anyone can get involved. Join us as we celebrate the Hour of Code! Programming experts will be onsite to help demystify code and demonstrate that anyone can learn the basics. This is a wonderful opportunity to try your hand at a new skill, and have a great time in the process.
Dana Flinn, Project Administrator, Public Relations
Education & Academic

’Tis the Season to Be Coding! Wolfram Cyber Week Savings

It's that time of year again and the holidays are upon us. Whatever your gifting traditions, Wolfram has perfect solutions for the tech lovers on your shopping list. From now until December 6, we are offering Cyber Week savings around the world, including North and South America, Australia, and parts of Asia and Africa.
Wolfram Blog Team
Education & Academic

HackingEDU Takes on Education with Just a Few Lines of Code

The San Mateo Event Center hosted the "world's largest education hackathon" the weekend of October 23 through 25. HackingEDU was high-energy, fast paced, and fun. Over 2,000 people participated; they had 36 hours to create. On their website, HackingEDU features a quote from Nelson Mandela: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." The HackingEDU participants worked hard to make that motto a reality. As with all good hackathons, there was collaboration, learning, and most importantly, cool new coding and inventions. Wolfram Research was there as a sponsor to assist the competing teams with Wolfram Development Platform, instant APIs, and other aspects of the Wolfram Cloud. We were thrilled to see 21 teams using Wolfram technologies for their projects.
Wolfram Blog Team
Education & Academic

New Books Using Wolfram Technologies Show Diverse Applications of the Wolfram Language

We're well into fall, and even if you're not a student anymore, who can help but think of books as the weather starts to turn and the leaves begin to change? Here at Wolfram, it's been an exciting season for new books and authors exploring geometry, differential equations, graphics, and more with Wolfram technologies.
Jenna Giuffrida, Content Administrator, Technical Communications and Strategy Group
Education & Academic

Using the Wolfram Language in the Classroom: Civics

I hope you've enjoyed the Wolfram Language in the Classroom series. Today is the fifth and final post in the series and I'll be talking about introducing more data into civics and social studies classrooms. One of the great things about this lesson is that the data can be drawn from your location, giving it a personalized feel. This lesson employs a computational thinking methodology by asking students to create and support claims by analyzing data.
Rob Morris, Education Product Analyst, Business Analysis
Education & Academic

Using the Wolfram Language in the Classroom: History

It's on to history for the Wolfram Language in the Classroom series. History and social studies have the potential to incorporate lots of real-world data to examine relationships between politics, economics, and geography. The Wolfram Language comes with built-in knowledge on a wide variety of topics, including historical events, financial information, socioeconomic data, and geographic data. We've mentioned previously in this series the computational approach to thinking that introducing the Wolfram Language into a classroom environment supports; in a social studies class, this approach allows students to find connections by analyzing real-world data. In the following lesson, I'll show you how to help students explore connections between major war battles and historical financial data using the Wolfram Language. By way of example, here I'll use the Vietnam War.
Adriana Rose, Business Development, Partnerships
Education & Academic

Using the Wolfram Language in the Classroom: Chemistry

Welcome to day three of the Wolfram Language in the Classroom series. I hope you've enjoyed the lessons so far. Today I want to show you how data built into the Wolfram Language can be used in the chemistry classroom. The Wolfram Language has information on over 44,000 chemicals and thus provides a perfect environment for chemistry students to do comparative, data-driven analysis. The unique advantage of using the Wolfram Language for computational thinking in a chemistry class is that it allows students to analyze curated data to create hypotheses and show correlations in a new way.
Rob Morris, Education Product Analyst, Business Analysis
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