The Curious Zombie

Want to learn something new but cannot face reading another dull, dry textbook, or video tutorial delivered in a monotone voice? The Curious Zombie presents serious subject matter in a lively, engaging format more like a conversation than a lesson.

The Curious Zombie's Guide to Python

An intuitive Python course for absolute beginners

For Individual Students

For Organizations

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The Curious Zombie's Guide to Bayes' Theorem:

Weighing evidence and making decisions: The math behind the odds

The Curious Zombie's Guide to Entropy:

The strange property that may hold the key to the ultimate fate of the universe

An intuitive, user-friendly approach to challenging topics

Learning can be a wonderful, lifelong pursuit. But the last thing you need when you're faced with learning something completely new, or learning something after a long period away from any study, is another dull, dry textbook. The Curious Zombie Guides strive to make learning more like an agreeable conversation than a lesson.

Visual explanations that keep the math to a minimum

Many of us are more naturally visual learners, and a lot of us leave high school happy to consign math lessons to the trash bin of painful memories! If a picture is worth a thousand words, it can sometimes also be worth a thousand mysterious symbols scribbled on a blackboard. A picture can be a gateway to understanding a challenging, abstract concept.

A holistic view that always keeps an eye on how all the pieces fit together.

Some textbooks break complex concepts down into so many parts that it can be hard to see the big picture when it comes to your area of study. Being presented with a sprawling catalog of pieces can be an impediment to any kind of big picture understanding of the subject, unless it is kept front and center as a goal of the teaching.

Thoughtful analogies that make complex concepts more accessible.

We are often able to understand difficult topics much more easily than we realize. A complex concept rendered almost incomprehensible by a traditional, dry, pedagogical approach, can take on a life of its own when our intuition is sparked by the use of analogy. The stuff we can already relate to in our lives can be a bridge to the stuff we struggle with.

Learning is for life. It's never a bad time to learn something new, so what are you waiting for?

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