Learning by doing & by teaching

I was a teacher in the subject "Programming for Bioinformatics", which is part of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Master's degree in the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). There I was teaching Python.

For students coming from a "bio" background, we were introducing them to programming through lots of examples and exercises, and I was always available for questions and to guide them.

For students coming from an "info" more technical background, we were focusing on showing specific libraries that would be useful for bioinformatics, such as biopython or matplotlib.

I enjoyed being able to explain programming concepts to students who came from different backgrounds, especially, I could use my own experience coming from Biology.