Really nice! When I was in college we had all sorts of online systems that automatically graded assignments based on how close to the correct answer your supplied answer was. I think it'd be nice if in the future there was more of an overlap between science classes and programming classes (almost like a freshman / junior level scientific computation class) where instead of approaching problems from a pure theoretical perspective, we involved these types of computational approaches in parallel. Personally I have found that while I often know how to perform various theoretical computations, it's faster for me to just throw together a quick script to approximate the result (e.g. what's the expected value of the product of two gaussians?)
I agree 100%. It seems that almost any real-world science problem these days requires a computational solution/approach at some level. Taking a computational approach in parallel would be super useful.
This was sort of how physics classes at my alma mater worked. Especially at the upper-division level, it was pretty much expected that you would be submitted a Mathematica notebook with all your homework/tests/labs
